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• The Real Cause of High Oil Prices - An Interview with James Hamilton

  Published 30 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Nowadays the energy picture is confusing at best as the more information we are shown the more blurred our vision seems to become. Mixed messages,…

• The Endless War: Saudi Arabia Goes on the Offensive Against Iran

  Published 27 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Saudi Arabia has gone on the offensive against Iran to protect its interests. Their involvement in Syria is the first battle in what is going…

• Energy Markets Being Driven by Fear

  Published 24 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Crude oil demand in the United States is down to its lowest level since the onset of the global economic recession. A lackluster economic recovery,…

• In Unsettling Development for Washington, Venezuela Ramps up China Oil Exports

  Published 23 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  The biggest geostrategic change of the past decade overlooked by Washington policy wonks in their fixation on their self-proclaimed "war on terror" is that Latin…

• Renewable Energy Ambitions, Independence and Donald Trump - An Interview with Alex Salmond

  Published 13 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  We were fortunate enough to have some time with Scotland's First Minister Alex Salmond where we discussed a broad range of topics from Scotland's ambitious…

• The Other Side of the Sanctions

  Published 10 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Iran has been pushed into a corner and is fighting for its life. The safest weapon in its arsenal is an economic strategy; and it…

• Bad News for Pipelines - Good News for Rail

  Published 07 August 2012 | viewed 0 times

  The Association of American Railroads reports the number of rail tankers carrying crude oil and petroleum products in the United States increased more than 35…

• Which Direction Are Oil Prices Headed? Is the Eurozone Doomed? An Interview with Mike Shedlock

  Published 30 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  As markets continue to yo-yo and commentators deliver mixed forecasts, investors are faced with some tough decisions and have a number of important questions that…

• Fukushima - Local Children Unwitting (and Unwilling) Radioactive Guinea Pigs

  Published 26 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Seventeen months after the earthquake and tsunami that destroyed the Tokyo Electric Power Company's six-reactor complex at its Fukushima Daiichi, discussions continue about the possible…

• Things Are About to Get Much Worse for Energy Firms in Argentina - Interview with Sam Logan

  Published 23 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Angering Spain by seizing and nationalizing a majority of Repsol's shares in YPF and ramping up the rhetoric over the Falkland Islands as exploration deals…

• Corruption and Mismanagement See Much of the US Without Power

  Published 18 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Amidst record-high temperatures and a very anti-climactic 4th of July, power outages have left millions without air-conditioning and even water in rural areas where households…

• Don't Give Up Yet: US Solar Companies can Compete with China with a Bit of Innovation

  Published 16 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  The US solar industry is undergoing some serious growing pains, with bankruptcies and mergers a necessary part of that process; meanwhile, competition from Chinese solar…

• Oil, Gold, Asia and the Best Investment in the World Right Now - An Interview with Jim Rogers

  Published 10 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  World markets appear to be hovering over a precipice as Europe's sovereign debt crisis, slowdowns in India and China and further bank downgrades threaten to…

• How is the Keystone XL Pipeline Progressing?

  Published 05 July 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Four and a half years of studies and five failed votes in the House later, exactly where are we with the Keystone XL pipeline? Stuck…

• Iran Hunting for Dragons in the Caspian Sea

  Published 26 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Iran announced this week that it's made its first oil discovery in the Caspian Sea in more than 100 years. The semiofficial Fars News Agency…

• The Increasing Threats to Global Energy Supplies - An Interview with Jellyfish

  Published 20 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

  As global energy supplies come under increasing attack by non-state actors and private energy holdings become key targets of political maneuverings and criminal activities, Oilprice.com…

• The Making of Kurdistan: Oil, Investment and a Turkish Gamble

  Published 19 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

  As tensions rise among Iraqi Kurds in the country's north, Sunnis in the south and the Shi'ite-led government in Baghdad over the distribution of natural…

• Iran Looks to China and Russia for Military Support as Pressure from the West Increases

  Published 13 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Beset by rising rhetoric about a possible Israeli attack against its nuclear facilities, Iran is seeking full membership in the Shanghai Cooperation Organization as an…

• Why Natural Gas Could Displace Gasoline - An Interview with Raymond Learsy

  Published 12 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Massive natural gas discoveries along with new extraction techniques have led many to claim nat gas as the fuel of the future - which could…

• Michigan Oil Spill Compounded by Poor Safety Procedures

  Published 07 June 2012 | viewed 0 times

  Canadian pipeline company Enbridge is in the hot seat for an oil spill from a ruptured line in southern Michigan. Crews in Marshall, Mich., are…