Energy

Dec 12, 2009 at 17:16 | Editorial Dept

News spreads quickly throughout the energy industry, especially when that news is good! The “Energy Crisis” may very well be over, long before it ever had a chance to cripple…

Dec 02, 2009 at 17:12 | Editorial Dept

Some people arbitrarily speak about oil as if it is a single, indistinguishably homogenous substance without any unique differentiation, but this is actually not the case at all! In fact,…

Nov 25, 2009 at 16:35 | Editorial Dept

As the politics and philosophical arguments about “Peak Oil” continue to rage, science continues to move steadily onward, progressively creating new and better ways to both find and extract oil…

Nov 23, 2009 at 14:06 | Editorial Dept

Two overwhelming environmental calamities, simultaneously banging at the door of our consciousness, may very well be more closely related than you might originally think. Calamity #1: We appear to be…

Nov 18, 2009 at 21:18 | Editorial Dept

Yes, $120 billion a year: That’s the final tally of the negative effects of energy production and use. And that's just a partial estimate, because it doesn’t include damages from…

Nov 10, 2009 at 22:58 | Editorial Dept

Stock market commentators like to draw parallels between the behavior of oil prices and stock prices on any given day. After all, who hasn’t seen a headline like this: “Oil…

Oct 22, 2009 at 23:20 | Editorial Dept

Over the past century, modern society has developed a near unquenchable thirst for oil and after 100 years of searching and experimenting there is still no reliable replacement. “Oil is…

Oct 21, 2009 at 16:17 | Editorial Dept

Currently there is a lot of debate going on regarding Peak Oil and precisely what we need to be doing about it, both now and in the near future. The…

Oct 20, 2009 at 16:10 | Ferdinand E. Banks

Virtually every topic in energy economics contains some elephantine myths that need to be confronted, from oil and gas to Nuclear and renewables. SOMETHING ABOUT OIL Take for example oil.…

Oct 17, 2009 at 15:19 | Joseph Dancy

Last week the Energy Information Administration released their ‘EIA-914’ report on natural gas production in the U.S. for the month of July. Production decreased 0.7 bcf/day from the previous month—a…

Oct 05, 2009 at 16:09 | Editorial Dept

When we take a well considered historical perspective of what has occurred over the recent years and in particular, the last two decades regarding the price of crude oil,…

Sep 30, 2009 at 06:54 | Llewellyn King

Natural gas is nifty stuff. It burns twice as clean as other fossil fuels, leaves no ash to be disposed of and is critical to many industrial processes.It…

Sep 28, 2009 at 18:37 | Editorial Dept

This “Natural Gas 101” article is intended as an informative guide to help clear up some common misconceptions going around these days about the topic of natural gas. So, let…

Sep 24, 2009 at 17:26 | Editorial Dept

People often say: “You can’t squeeze blood from a stone.” However that’s exactly what shale oil is. An alternative fuel, created by squeezing our planet’s proverbial “Life Blood” out of…

Sep 23, 2009 at 17:55 | Editorial Dept

Over recent years, as oil prices have surged exponentially, we’ve witnesses a renewed interest in coal as a readily available, reliably abundant and relatively inexpensive source of energy. These benefits…

Sep 22, 2009 at 18:16 | Editorial Dept

Over many years, natural gas has come to play a relatively large part in most of our everyday lives. Meanwhile modern society longs to return to simpler, happier, healthier times…

Sep 21, 2009 at 16:45 | Editorial Dept

For decades now, oil has often been vilified and bedeviled by just about everyone from progressive environmentalist organizations to the mass media, but the fact is, without oil, we would…

Jul 24, 2009 at 07:48 | Editorial Dept

Crude oil, commonly known as petroleum, is a liquid found within the Earth comprised of hydrocarbons, organic compounds and small amounts of metal. While hydrocarbons are usually the primary component…

Jul 24, 2009 at 07:48 | Editorial Dept

Heating oil is a low-viscosity liquid petroleum used to heat homes all over the world. Also known as No. 2 oil – heating oil is delivered to homes by tanker…

Jul 24, 2009 at 07:48 | Editorial Dept

Gas prices have changed significantly over the past year as a number of factors have affected the price of crude oil which directly impacts the price at the pump. Many…