Bush-Cheney Energy Strategy: Procuring the Rest of the World’s Oil
When first assuming office in early 2001, President George W. Bush’s top foreign policy priority was to increase the flow of petroleum from suppliers abroad to U.S. markets.
US: Utility bills skyrocket due to higher oil and natural gas prices
Utility bills are soaring this winter, hurting homeowners and businesses alike, for reasons that have less to do with nasty weather than with tight supplies of natural gas and oil.
Energy sector could ignore waste wood as fuel, expert warns
The biomass power generation market could close its doors to wood recyclers if something is not done to address their misperceptions, an expert has said.
US: Demand outpaces gas production
The natural gas industry faces a year of conflicting extremes in 2004.
Increased Scrutiny Could Shrink World Oil Reserves
The world’s oil companies were already double-checking their books before Royal Dutch/Shell Group sent the industry into a tizzy this month by reducing the stated amounts of its proven reserves by almost 4 billion barrels of oil and natural gas. That’s 20% of its total.
BP: oil price will stay high
LORD BROWNE, chief executive of BP, the world’s second-largest oil company, has warned the City and British industry to prepare for a long period of high oil prices.
Educating Arnie about LNG safety
AUSTRALIA has offered to send technical experts to the US to convince the California administration of Arnold Schwarzwenegger that liquefied natural gas plants can be environmentally safe and secure.
China: Hungry for Power (Part 3)
It is about oil
IEA 2004 world oil demand forecast up 50,000 b/d to 79.63-mil b/d
The International Energy Agency Friday raised its estimate of global oil demand in 2004 by 50,000 b/d to 79.63-mil b/d.
Canada Raises Reserve Reporting Standards
US could follow in wake of Shell scandal
Russia Says ‘No’ to Nuclear Fusion Plant in Japan
MOSCOW – Russia on Thursday declined Japanese pleas to back Tokyo’s bid to host a disputed nuclear fusion reactor as the global contest for the multi-billion project threatened to hurt relations among the participants.
Japan and France are vying for the right to build the world’s first such reactor, but the six members of the joint venture have so far failed to agree on the site. The plant would generate energy the same way the sun does.
Bush has energy hopes for brush
Says products could pay for forest thinning
