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• New Pipeline Safety Technology Could Bring Industry and Environment Together

  Published 08 August 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The 2010 Kalamazoo spill and the 2013 Exxon leak in Arkansas are the most glaring incidents, but these are just the big leaks that are…

• Fort McMurray Evicts Oil Sands Companies that Helped it Grow

  Published 30 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The Canadian town of Fort McMurray, population 76,000, is the heart of Alberta's oil sands largesse--but the town is bursting at its seams with nowhere…

• 6 Key Oil and Gas Discoveries of 2013 - Who's Worth Owning

  Published 26 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The pace of oil and gas exploration is frightening, and discoveries are weekly, if not daily, with volumes investors would only have dreamt of a…

• Piggybacking on the Hunt For Massive Oil Discoveries: Interview with AOS

  Published 24 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Africa is becoming the top choice for North American oil companies looking to diversify, and the East African Rift is the hottest of the hot,…

• Mineral Rich Australia May Contain World's Next Major Oil Find

  Published 22 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Australia's massive mineral exports allowed it to weather the global recession, which began in 2008, quite nicely. The U.S. government's Energy Information Administration noted in…

• Six Tech Advancements Changing the Fossil Fuels Game

  Published 17 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Oil and gas is getting bigger, deeper, faster and more efficient, with new technology chipping away at "peak oil" concerns. While hydraulic fracturing has been…

• Chernobyl at Sea? Russia Building Floating Nuclear Power Plants

  Published 16 July 2013 | viewed 0 times

  So much for the lessons of Fukushima. Never mind oil spills, the Russian Federation is preparing an energy initiative that, if it has problems, will…

• Energy Companies Pull a Blackwater

  Published 26 June 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Norwegian energy company Statoil said last week it was forming a special operations division to handle emergency operations in response to a terrorist attack on…

• Extreme Energy, Extreme Implications: Interview with Michael Klare

  Published 24 June 2013 | viewed 0 times

  If oil and gas is a profoundly dynamic phenomenon, then so too must be environmental risk and conflicts over natural resources--and we are not getting…

• India's Energy Ties with Iran Unsettle Washington

  Published 17 June 2013 | viewed 0 times

  India's relentless search for hydrocarbons to fuel its booming economy has managed the rather neat diplomatic trick of annoying Washington, delighting Tehran and intriguing Baghdad,…

• Will Saudi Arabia Allow the U.S. Oil Boom? Interview with Chris Faulkner

  Published 04 June 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Technology, technology, and more technology--this is what has driven the American oil and gas boom starting in the Bakken and now being played out in…

• Energy - Balancing the Bonanza: Interview with Mark Thoma

  Published 23 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  If you want an objective view of energy, ask an economist, who can tell you what to expect to pay at the pump in the…

• New Wyoming Lithium Deposit could Meet all U.S. Demand

  Published 03 May 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The U.S. currently imports more than 80% of the lithium it uses, with the silvery metal winding up in batteries from cell phones to electric…

• UK Ministry of Defense Deems Wind Towers a National Security Threat

  Published 30 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Twenty-plus years on, the collapse of the USSR in 1991 threatened massive Western defense budgets, bereft of a major enemy like the "Evil Empire." Western…

• Is Tunisia the New Hot Spot for Energy Investors? Interview with John Nelson

  Published 09 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Until recently Tunisia was considered to be a minor league and relatively underexplored venue in Africa's rapidly expanding oil & gas scene. This situation has…

• Gas Starts Flowing from Israel's Levant Basin, What Now?

  Published 04 April 2013 | viewed 0 times

  The first gas has started flowing from Israel's supergiant Tamar gasfield in the Levant Basin. Where it will go will redraw the Mediterranean energy map…

• As Cyprus Collapses, It's a Race to the Mediterranean Gas Finish Line

  Published 22 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Cyprus is preparing for total financial collapse as the European Central Bank turns its back on the island after its parliament rejected a scheme to…

• Oil Explorers Beware: Hackers Are Eyeing What You Know

  Published 12 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  While most would think that the risks junior oil and gas companies are taking in exploring new frontiers as far away as the remote reaches…

• Peak Oil Is Almost Here and There's No Magic To Counter It: Interview with Dave Summers

  Published 06 March 2013 | viewed 0 times

  This where we stand, and it's a fairly bleak view: Peak oil is almost here, and nothing new (with the possible but unlikely exception of…

• Be Careful: Russia is Back to Stay in the Middle East

  Published 28 February 2013 | viewed 0 times

  Russia is back. President Vladimir Putin wants the world to acknowledge that Russia remains a global power. He is making his stand in Syria. The…