Joao is a writer for Oilprice.com
Whilst some, most notably the IEA, claim that shale oil will help the US become the largest oil producer in the world, OPEC has never…
Glencore International Plc’s $31 billion takeover bid for Xstrata Plc has now been supported by Qatar Holding LLC, in a move that almost guarantees the…
The US military is one of the most important developers of new technologies leading them to a point where they can be released onto the…
The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a nonprofit science advocacy group based in the United States, has written a report that analyses America’s coal power…
Oil prices have risen following Israeli attacks in the Gaza strip which killed Ahmed al-Jabari, the leader of Hamas’s militant wing. Traders fear that the…
Australia’s giant, 250 megawatt, $1.5 billion Solar Dawn solar thermal power plant, planned for development in south-west Queensland, has been cancelled.The Solar Dawn Consortium, led…
Formula E is a new motorsport which will use electric cars. IT is intended to promote public awareness of electric vehicles, and at the same…
The European Commission has announced its plans to delay the auction of some 900 million carbon emission allowances, in an attempt to rescue the collapsing…
Following the disaster at the nuclear power plant in Fukushima last year, nearly all of Japan’s reactors have been shut down. The only power plant…
The International Energy Agency (IEA) has just launched its 2012 edition of its World Energy Outlook, in which it has stated that energy around the…
The Pentagon has just announced that one of its unarmed, unmanned MQ-1 Predator drones was fired upon by Iranian aircraft whilst performing routine surveillance in…
George Osborne, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, has given a speech to the Royal Society in which he stated that the UK must become…
Yesterday it was Jim Rogers despairing over Obama’s re-election, today it’s Marc Faber, are there any financiers out there who are happy with the results…
A new report by the London School of Economics (LSE), titled ‘Energy and the Economy: The 2030 Outlook for UK Businesses’ has estimated that £330…
In the wake of the presidential elections The Economic Times spoke to Jim Rogers about how he thinks the markets will respond to the news…
Mexico has set itself a target of installing 12,000MW of new renewable energy capacity by 2020.Pablo Gottfried Blackmore, a member of the Asociación Mexicana de…
The abundant supply of natural gas from just a few shale fields has changed the natural gas landscape in the US, meaning that a lot…
As part of a huge expansion plan the Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC), the downstream refining division of the Kuwait Petroleum Company (KPC), has announced…
Tehran has released a statement, announcing that it intends to increase its naval presence in the Gulf of Persia, just near to the Straits of…
As part of its first national energy plan in more than 20 years, the Italian government plans to revitalise the oil and gas industry. Back…