General Interest - Quick TakesBodman to Europe: rethink Russia’s line proposalUS Sec. of Energy Samuel Bodman has criticized Russia’s plans to construct a new pipeline from Turkmenistan...
Field tests of arctic cements in the Bovanenkovo gas-condensate field on the Yamal peninsula in northern Russia will benefit an upcoming drilling program.
Kenneth Irving, chief executive of Irving Oil Ltd. in St. John, NB, has a recommendation for his refining competitors in the US: Don’t resist the push for action on global warming...
Critics are eyeing Chinese oil and gas exploration activity around the world, not least in Sudan where, it is claimed, Beijing is ruthlessly exploiting the government’s economic...
US refiners apparently have scaled back plans for additional capacity from levels of a year ago, the head of the US Energy Information Administration told a Senate committee on...
US President George W. Bush ordered federal agencies to implement proposals to increase motor fuel efficiency and develop motor fuel alternatives more quickly.
European countries are increasingly apprehensive about Russia’s attempts to control natural gas supplies and transmission, noted speakers at the 2007 Deloitte Energy Conference...
India is the world’s second most populous country (after China). Its population is projected to increase to 1.46 billion by 2030 from 1.09 billion in 2006.
Ministers of the International Energy Agency’s member countries, having confronted growing energy challenges since their last meeting in 2005, gathered in Paris May 14-15 to identify...
US oil and gas-producing states must continue to work together to explore for and develop oil and gas resources and maximize production with a high sense of environmental awareness...
China reached production of 3.6 million b/d of oil, 50 billion cu m of natural gas, and 5.8 million b/d of refining capacity by 2005, Facts Global Energy Group (FGE) reported ...
After days of tense negotiations between Brazil’s state-owned Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) and the Bolivian government, Bolivia’s President Evo Morales announced that his...
High crude costs remain the single biggest force behind rising gasoline prices, said John C. Felmy, American Petroleum Institute chief economist, on May 9.
Bolivia’s President Evo Morales has issued a decree that forbids Brazil’s state-owned Petroleo Brasileiro SA (Petrobras) and other foreign companies from exporting certain oil...
The Canadian government has issued a proposed framework for regulation of air emissions that it says contains “the toughest action on greenhouse gases ever proposed by a Canadian...
When people find out that my job entails tracking US gasoline prices, they often ask, “Why are prices so high?” and “Are they going to continue to rise?” Many accept the explanations...
Energy prices fluctuated sharply in early May because of differing assessments of sufficient supplies or possible shortages of crude and petroleum products.
Wärtsilä Corp.Helsinki, Finland, has announced the opening of an office in Hanoi, and a new service workshop in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Both facilities will support development...
AlgeriaGulf Keystone Petroleum Ltd., London, established a stabilized oil flow at HEK-3, a 2004 Sonatrach oil and gas discovery on Djebel Bottena Block 129 in the Southeast Constantine...
Service searches web-based energy intelligenceMetaCarta GeoIntel for Petroleum, an online geographic search service, provides a way to geographically search and discover web-based...
