Joao is a writer for Oilprice.com
RWE, one of the big six energy companies in the UK, has dealt the country a major blow as it announces the cancellation of one…
On March the 29th 2013, an ExxonMobil pipeline carrying heavy crude oil from Canada’s oil sands ruptured in a quiet neighbourhood of Mayflower, Arkansas, spilling…
Back in March the German utility RWE announced that it planned to sell off its oil and gas unit, DEA, in order to reduce costs…
Canadian pipeline giant TransCanada Corp. (TRP) has delayed the start date for the planned Keystone XL pipeline for a second time this year to 2016,…
Gassco, the Norwegian state-owned natural gas company, has announced that it plans to increase security at its onshore gas facilities following violence over the past…
After months of intense lobbying from rival quarters, Washington has proposed cutting the biofuels mandate for 2014 by 16% to 15.21 billion gallons.This would be…
Whilst Saudi Arabia continues to state that it is not at all worried by the increasing production driven by the US shale revolution, Prince Alwaleed…
A new study set to be published in the journal Climate Change, has determined that just 90 companies are responsible for the current climate change…
After suspending drilling off Alaska last year over dangerous conditions, equipment failures and permit delays, Royal Dutch Shell is now preparing to drill new five…
In a filing today, United Continental Holdings Inc. (UAL), the world’s biggest airline, explained its plans to cut annual spending by at least $2 billion…
Tepco has begun possibly the most critical process of its clean-up operation at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant as it attempts to delicately remove…
Over the past year or so, thanks mostly to the success of the Model S, Tesla has grown out of nowhere and pretty much dominated…
A deadly fire has broken out at the Chevron Pascagoula Refinery, with one reported death so far, according to local news agencies. A fire broke…
Spain, a country that once threw money at companies to encourage them to install solar panel farms around the country, is now charging anyone that…
The Pine Island Glacier is the fastest melting glacier on the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, receding by about 2.5 miles a year. This year a…
It has been estimated by the US Geological Survey that the Arctic could contain 90 billion barrels of oil equivalent, and as drilling technologies have…
Investors and shareholders are relaxing after Royal Dutch Shell has announced that it will begin selling off assets to try and offset the huge investments…
Claims that the shale boom in the US will eventually see the country become energy self-sufficient seems to have received its biggest blow yet after…
For some time now the Kurdish region of northern Iraq has defied the central government in Baghdad by declaring independence and working to create its…
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is seeking to ban trans fats from food production for safety reasons, citing the additives as a significant…