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The oil tanker Tropical Brilliance owned by the Russian partly state-owned Sovcomflot company and sailing under a Liberian flag has caused a traffic jam at the Suez Canal, after experiencing steering gear failure and grounding itself across the canal.
China’s breakneck economic growth and soaring energy demand are becoming key factors in global energy use. Louisa Lim explores the human impact of the country’s dependence on coal products, as part of the BBC’s Planet Under Pressure series.
US oil output has fallen to its lowest monthly level in more than 50 years in the wake of Hurricane Ivan.
Rising global temperatures will melt areas of the Arctic this century, making them more accessible for oil and natural gas drilling, a report prepared by the United States and seven other nations said on Monday.
The UK’s oil trade balance swung into the red for the first time in 13 years in September, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) has said.
Even those Americans who don’t care to — and still don’t have to — peer over the wall already essentially know what’s on the other side. That’s the nature of denial. After all, you can’t deny what you don’t, at heart, know to be so.
California Institute of Technology professor and vice provost David Goodstein said the world is headed toward a global oil shortage that could cause warfare, economic depression and the crumbling of institutions.
“Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.” — Marion King Hubbert
Six European countries, including Austria, Italy and Romania, approved a plan for a pipeline to ship oil from the Caspian Sea region to western Europe, officials said Friday.
Liquefied natural gas imports will play “a pivotal role” in supplying the United States with energy in the coming years, the head of the Texas Railroad Commission says.
SPAIN wants to take advantage of its sunshine by making solar panels compulsory in new and renovated buildings — to save fuel costs and to improve the environment.
Long-time GNN contributor Adam Porter is the oil and economics correspondent for Al Jazeera’s English language web site. Recently, he talked with GNN editor Anthony Lappé about the phenomenon known as “peak oil”
