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• Piracy: A Growing Global Menace

  Published 08 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Over the last few years, thanks largely to Hollywood's "pirates of the Caribbean" franchise, maritime buccaneers have acquired a highly romantic image. The reality of…

• Despite Fukushima, Russia's Nuclear Industry is Open for Business

  Published 08 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Japan's 11 March catastrophe at its six-reactor Daichi Fukushima nuclear power complex has had global repercussions, hardly surprising given the trillions of dollars invested in…

• Turkmen Gas Finally Gets Washington's Attention - A Little too Late

  Published 06 July 2011 | viewed 0 times

  One of Washington's key policy tenets since the 1991 collapse of Communism has been to pry out from under Moscow's control as much of the…

• Worldwide Nuclear Industry Woes Deepen

  Published 29 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The year 2011 will go down for the nuclear industry worldwide as an annus horribilis. First came the March Fukushima nuclear disaster, with operator Tokyo…

• China Winning the Race for Central Asia's Energy Riches

  Published 27 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Many western analysts have described the post-Soviet tussle for Caspain and Central Asian energy reserves as the new "Great Game", except this time around, Russia…

• Chinese Energy Policies Harming Neighbors

  Published 23 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  China's omnivorous energy requirements have been attracting increasing attention as of late, as Beijing attempts to secure any and all sources of power for its…

• Kazakhstan's Uranium Industry Could Lose Its Luster

  Published 21 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  What a difference a year and a tsunami make. Western investors have been salivating over the post-Soviet space's energy riches since the 1991 collapse of…

• Aviation Biofuels About to Take Off

  Published 20 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  An extraordinary convergence of recent events seems poised shortly to make aviation biofuels the belle of the investor's ball. The first is that on 8…

• Nuclear Twilight in Europe

  Published 16 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  It is becoming evident to many that the March nuclear catastrophe at Japan's six reactor Daichi Fukushima complex has dealt a huge, possibly fatal, blow…

• David and Goliath: Vietnam Confronts China Over South China Sea Energy Riches

  Published 14 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  An increasingly fractious maritime confrontation is developing in the South China Sea, with enormous implications for international companies interested in developing East Asia's offshore hydrocarbon…

• Why Japan Will Turn to Solar Energy Following Fukushima

  Published 10 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  As the dire news continues to leach out of Fukishima, the silver lining in its nuclear cloud is that renewable energy technologies, despite their daunting…

• U.S. - Venezuelan Relations - Just 'Frozen' or Beyond Repair?

  Published 09 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  According to the U.S. Energy Administration, two months ago the United States total crude oil imports averaged 9,033 thousand barrels per day (tbpd), with the…

• Investors Salivating Over Mongolian Energy Resources

  Published 08 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Mongolia - Place Your Bets? Sometime in the next 12 months, an energy IPO offering in distant Mongolia already has foreign investors salivating. The darling…

• Biofuels About to Take Off - Just Not Yet

  Published 06 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Investors looking for the next big thing after a hydrocarbon economy have a panoply of options, from solar to wind, as well as biofuels. In…

• Offshore Oil Dispute in South China Sea Has Enormous Global Implications

  Published 03 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The world's unceasing quest for new oil deposits has combined with offshore technology to impel many countries to investigate their offshore resources in their "exclusive…

• The Fukushima Cloud's (Green, Not Silver) Lining

  Published 02 June 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The ongoing tragedy of Japan's Daichi Fukshima nuclear complex will prove to be a boon for renewable energy in Japan, and astute investors should begin…

• Fukushima a Stake Through Nuclear Industry's Heart

  Published 26 May 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Despite the managed media campaign by Tokyo Electric Company, the Japanese government and nuclear industry flacks worldwide, the 11 March 9.0 on the Richter scale…

• The Joy of Natural Gas, It's Here Aplenty

  Published 17 May 2011 | viewed 0 times

  Tired of high gasoline pump prices? Wondering why, with our fearsome energy hunger, all the energy seems to be in the Middle East? That was…

• It's Time for Obama to Spook the Oil Markets

  Published 05 May 2011 | viewed 0 times

  The fate of the Obama presidency hangs not on a birth certificate or the red ink on the federal budget but by the hose nozzle…

• A New Trend in Fracking Emerges: The 'Recovery Factor'

  Published 11 April 2011 | viewed 0 times

  "Lower costs. Higher oil and gas recoveries." That's how Dan Themig, President of Packers Plus - a privately owned, Calgary-based fracking (completions) company - describes…