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Ed Blanche The United States’ drive for energy security, one of the dominant elements in its tough-guy foreign policy, is running into trouble around the globe, making US control of Iraq’s oil wealth ever more necessary. And that is sure to stir up more trouble, unsettling a market that has become volatile and unpredictable.
The government has given energy conservation top priority in its long-term energy policy, as the country has been feeling the pinch of energy supply shortages since last year.
Energy price rollover will signal the day when oil becomes “way too expensive and tourism may have a problem in New Zealand’’.
The rise in demand for air travel is one of the most serious environmental threats facing the world, a study says.
World oil supplies came under more pressure on Sunday as Iraqi crude exports were disrupted by pipeline explosions, and Yukos, the Russian oil group, moved closer to bankruptcy.
The Norwegian oil and gas sector is renowned for its discipline. Ian Fraser talks to Statoil’s exploration chief about the efforts to keep Norway in power
How might America cure itself of energy illiteracy? Realistically, teaching Americans to give energy the priority it deserves would be an incremental process that could take years.
A summer of cuts, partial blackouts and restrictions has now prompted experts to warn of an energy crisis with global implications.
Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Zanganeh announced that new oil discoveries in the southwest of the country now meant the Islamic republic held the number-two position in world crude reserves.
Russian law enforcement officials attempted to seize the headquarters of the Russian oil company Yukos yesterday, days after it was landed with a tax bill of £3.8 billion.
Enjoy these gas prices while they last, because they are only going to be with us for a short time before they head back up.
Report highlights lack of protection for nuclear plant if terrorists tried to attack it with passenger planes.
