Joao is a writer for Oilprice.com
In 2011, after the Fukushima disaster in Japan, Angela Merkel, the Chancellor of Germany, made the surprise decision of scrapping nuclear power in order to…
We may be seeing the first boost in Libyan oil production in 10 months, which the markets are eyeing hungrily, but don’t jump the gun…
Biofuels policies in the US and Europe are seriously flawed, resulting in wasted money and increases in food prices. The problem is so big that…
Protesters stormed the offices of TransCanada Corporation on Monday, in another phase of activism against the company’s Keystone XL pipeline plans, breaching the TransCanada lobby…
In December the Mexican congress cast an overwhelming vote in favour of opening up the country’s oil and gas sector to foreign firms for the…
On Wednesday, more than 500 global investment and financial executives gathered at the United Nations for the 2014 Investor Summit on Climate Risk to discuss…
BP has released its annual energy outlook in which it has suggested that the oil producing states in the Middle East will lose their dominance…
The UN has released a draft report which suggests that world governments may be forced to extract large volumes of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere…
Reports are emerging that Iran and Russia are in talks about a potential $1.5 billion oil-for-goods swap that could boost Iranian oil exports, prompting harsh…
French oil giant Total is planning to spend $50 million on shale gas exploration in Britain’s East Midlands with the acquisition of a 40% stake…
On Monday, Drydocks World, the state-owned Dubain shipbuilding and offshore engineer experts, announced that it had received a commission worth $730 million to build the…
After the Fukushima disaster led Japan to shut down its nuclear power sector fuel oil became one of the country’s largest sources of electricity generation,…
David Cameron, the British Prime Minister, has renewed his backing of fracking by stating that the government will be going all out for shale, and…
A subsidiary of China’s largest coal company has signed an agreement with Denver-based Energy Corporation of America (ECA) to enter into a 50/50 joint venture…
Last year saw hundreds of complaints mounted against well-water contamination from oil or gas drilling in US, but the jury is still out as to…
Oil production in the North Sea has been falling sharply over the last decade but some in the industry had high hopes for the future…
Back in 1991, one of the 20th century’s largest volcanic eruptions occurred at Mount Pinatubo in the Philippines. It ejected nearly 20 million tonnes of…
In March 2013, the Hôpital Universitaire de Mirebalais, the world’s largest solar powered hospital, was opened in Haiti, and so far it has exceeded all…
Russian state-owned Rosneft has announced plans to acquire Morgan Stanley’s unit for storing, trading and transporting oil products. While the deal still requires approval from…
BP Plc has started up a $4.2 billion oil conversion processing unit that represents the largest private sector investment in the history of the state…