Kenyas food stocks will run out in April, resulting in more people going hungry, a new study warns.
The Kenya Food Security report blames the failed or poor rains, high food prices and environmental degradation for the crisis. The report also warns of increased inter-ethnic conflict over land and water. [...]
The US Department of Energy (DOE) awarded selections for $60 million in funding from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to support transmission planning for the country’s three interconnection transmission networks. The six awards will promote collaborative long-term analysis and planning for the Eastern, Western and Texas electricity interconnections, [...]
Delphi Electronics & Safety outlined its plans to implement an $89.3 million award (earlier post) from the Department of Energy (DOE) to support expansion of its power electronics engineering capabilities as well as the establishment of a new manufacturing operation in Kokomo, Indiana.
Among the first products expected to [...]
Iran rejects reports of Iraqi oil well seizure as attempt to harmties
TEHRAN (Xinhua) -- Iran on Saturday rejected the reports that an Iraqi oil well was taken over by Iranian armed forces as an attempt to harm the relations between the two neighboring countries, the official IRNA news [...]
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Singapore will receive its first batch of electric vehicles (EVs) next year as part of a national EV test-bedding programme. The Energy Market Authority (EMA) said 50 Mitsubishi i-MiEV electric cars will make their way here from Sep 2010. EMA [...]
State-run Gazprom has delayed the launch of its Prirazlomnoye oilfield for nearly [...]
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After quietly grabbing up unconventional natural gas reserves for years, Exxon Mobil Corp. moved boldly yesterday to buy one of the largest U.S. independent gas companies, XTO Energy, in a deal valued at $41 billion.
The oil and gas behemoth announced that it planned to use XTO to establish a new [...]
What the EIA Report Would Look Like if It Was Written by an Honest Person
Suppose you worked at the Energy Information Administration (EIA), the agency within the U.S. Department of Energy charged with keeping data and making projections on energy, and you had to produce an annual report with a [...]
Deal thrashed out at talks condemned as climate change scepticism in action
The UN climate summit reached a weak outline of a global agreement last night in Copenhagen, falling far short of what Britain and many poor countries were seeking and leaving months of tough negotiations to come.
After eight draft texts [...]
"I am accusing the Kingdom of the Netherlands, along with the Yankee empire, of preparing aggression against Venezuela," Chavez [...]
Trends suggest Brazil could rise to the top of the heap by 2011, as its ultra-deep offshore fields start producing in [...]
An Iraqi security source in southeastern Maysan province, speaking on condition of anonymity, said that Iranian troops made their way on Thursday onto the Fakka oilfield, located [...]
OPEC Nations Brace for 2010 Price Shift
The Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries is expected to keep production steady when it meets Tuesday, but members are bracing for a potentially challenging year that could see oil prices weaken at a time when some OPEC nations are in need of price [...]
As President Obama meets with world leaders at the United Nations climate conference in Copenhagen today, the government he runs at home is quietly engaged in an unprecedented effort [...]
Nikkei. Japan convenience store chain Circle K Sunkus Co. plans to use the new Prius Plug-in hybrid vehicles (earlier post) as company cars.
As a start, the convenience store chain operator will deploy a Prius Plug-in Hybrid at its office in Okazaki, Aichi Prefecture, next Thursday. This vehicle will [...]
The Energy Report submits:"If gas stays in the $5–$6 range, that's what I would call purgatory," says Oil & Gas Investments Bulletin writer Keith Schaefer, adding "and anything less than that would just be hell." Learn about new technologies that are greatly increasing the amount of recoverable [...]
LDK Solar (LDK) dropped 15% Thursday as the company announced it will issue 18.9 American Depository Receipts as part of a larger bid to remain a going concern. LDK filed a 6K with the SEC summarizing its problems [...]
Oil, natural gas, and coal are anything but fossils. Mother Nature was kind enough to compress various forms of carbon over centuries, millennia and eons into giant batteries called “formations” for our use. Their age may make them fossil fuels, but their usability and cost [...]
A first-of-its-kind computer simulation that mirrors real-world observations of methane bubbling up from a seabed in the Arctic Ocean provides further evidence that warming oceans may unleash vast quantities of methane trapped in hydrate deposits buried beneath the seafloor. Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases.
The simulations, conducted [...]
Figure 1 Oil supply - demand - price chart, Jan. 2002 to Nov. 2009. See text for explanation. Click to enlarge and open in separate browser window.
In February this year, global oil production / demand hit an interim low of 84.0 million barrels per day [...]
We wondered if the Dubai World debt problem was going to affect the nuclear ambitions of its fellow UAE member, Abu Dhabi. That would require more knowledge than we have of the financial interconnectedness of the seven emirates that make up the UAE.
Reuters reports [...]
China said on Thursday a U.S. pledge to mobilize $100 billion a year in climate funds was a "good step," and signaled Beijing was seeking compromise with Washington on its demand for checks on Chinese emissions curbs.
But Vice Foreign Minister He Yafei, bearing a message from Premier Wen Jiabao, warned [...]
