The Clean-Energy Fast Track
KINGSMILL BOND , ANGUS MCCRONE, JULES KORTENHORST Source Link LONDON – The global transition from carbon-intensive fossil fuels to cleaner, more reliable renewables like wind and solar is already wel…
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The geopolitical implications of the global energy transition
BY: SIMONE TAGLIAPIETRA Source Link Energy has traditionally played an important role in global geopolitics, contributing to the rise of great powers, the formation of alliances and, in many cases, a…
Bank Of America: Oil Demand Growth To Hit Zero Within A Decade
Source Link By Nick Cunningham By 2030, oil demand could hit a peak and then enter decline, according to a new report. For the next decade or so, oil demand should continue to grow, although at a slo…
America’s Short-Lived Oil Resurgence
Source Link By Deepak Gopinath NEW DELHI: Celebration of America’s reemergence as an oil superpower riding on shale oil production may be cut short. Last year may well have been the high-water mark …
Huge Backlog Could Trigger New Wave Of Shale Oil – Analysis
Source Link By Nick Cunningham The number of drilled but uncompleted wells (DUCs) in the U.S. shale patch has skyrocketed by roughly 60 percent over the past two years. That leaves a rather large bac…
Aramco IPO: Why Saudis Turned Oil Price Hawks
There's a neat story from the folks over at Oil Price about how the Saudis have done an about-face on the price of traded oil. For the longest time, they were considered as being among the leas…
Norway's $1T SWF & 'Divesting' From Oil
Make no mistake: Norway's gonna cover you in oil for the foreseeable future. Financial markets are currently in a tizz over Norway's sovereign wealth fund (SWF) investigating the possibility…
Scientists Just Invented Groundbreaking New Source of Renewable Energy
Renewable energy is the future. When you think of renewable energy, the likes of wind turbines, hydroelectric dams, geothermal power plants, and solar panels possibly come to mind. These are definite…
China Just Extracted Gas from 'Flammable Ice', and It Could Lead to a Brand New Energy Source
For the first time, Chinese engineers have successfully extracted natural gas from icy deposits beneath the South China Sea. Just last year, China's government announced that geologists had fo…
Can Singapore Land Saudi Aramco (Mother of All IPOs)?
Make it big: Singapore competes for Saudi Aramco's $100B IPO listing. Us Southeast Asians have been closely following the possibility--however remote--of the Singapore Exchange [SGX] landing the …
Trump Makes America #1 Environmental Rogue Regime Again
Welcome to the coalface, circa 2016 in TrumpWorld. As a lover of conspiracy theories, Donald Trump famously said that climate change is a hoax perpetuated by the Chinese (nevermind that they're …
Venezuelan Oiler PDVSA: Debt Swap or Bankrupt
"Delay when we need to pay you back...or we'll default on Oct. 28!" Investor relations, Venezuela-style. When oil prices were at $100 or higher, Venezuela was flying high, using oil rev…
Electricity and Hydrogen Produced By Cells in Spinach
Using a simple membrane extract from spinach leaves, researchers from the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have developed a bio-photo-electro-chemical (BPEC) cell that produces electrici…