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There is an aspect of coal mining that gets relatively little attention, even though it is growing in popularity, It is with this method that…
For those addicted to more roads, airports and the sweet smell of gasoline, the IEA's 2010 World Energy Outlook includes some pretty sober reading. As…
There are regularly stories in the media or in the blogosphere about various pipeline projects that are announced with much publicity, and are seen to…
In 1913, Lord Northcliffe, who owned the Daily Mail, offered £10,000 to the first men to fly the Atlantic from North America to Ireland or…
With Labor Day weekend, and the recovery of the blowout preventer from the Deepwater Horizon well in the Gulf of Mexico, the remaining parts of…
There seems to be an on-going debate among peak oilers and many economists as to which came first, the chicken (peak supply flow) or the…
In Europe, natural gas has great importance. Many people believe (some countries even instituted policies) that it will be the fuel that will become the…
Last Friday, the US House of Representatives passed legislation that would remove the $75 million liability cap on economic damages incurred by offshore drilling activities…
Progress on the relief well at the Deepwater Horizon well has now reached the point that BP have started the procedures for the top static…
OPEC tells us it has lots of spare capacity, but how much should we believe them? Even when prices were much higher than they are…
With the tragic Gulf of Mexico oil spill now focussing President Obama's and the American people's minds on where their energy comes from, and what…
In my last post, we looked at the supply of oil in the US Energy Information Administration's (EIA's) recently released International Energy Outlook (IEO), which…
A mishap during the loading of an oil tanker off Saudi Arabia in 1993 initiated a cascading disaster, resulting in what was the largest offshore…
Earth’s population is approaching seven billion at the same time that resource limits and environmental degradation are becoming more apparent every day. Rich nations have…
The next attempt to shut off the flow from the leaking BP well in the Gulf is still aimed to occur early Wednesday. The attempt…