State explores North Slope gas pipeline financing options
The state of Alaska held preliminary talks with investment banking firms in New York City May 25 to explore options should the state decide to help finance a North Slope natural gas pipeline.
Tim Bradner
Norway, Russia jealously eyeing virgin oil fields
OSLO: In a world growing increasingly worried about oil supplies, there is one large white spot on the fossil fuel map, eyed eagerly by both Norway and Russia, but accessible to neither without a treaty.
Australia: Oil’s not well: crisis looms
The opening session of the 10th South East Asia Australia Offshore Conference will hear that Australia’s demand for oil is greater than supply and the gap is growing.
Solar power city offers 20 years of lessons
A 20 year experiment in renewable energy leaves some unclear answers. Has solar power worked here? Has it worked around the country? Can it help us get beyond our dependence on fossil fuels? Yes and no, to all three questions.
Join us as we watch the crisis unfolding
Saudi Aramco could turn some valves and increase production rate by two million barrels per day. In doing so, they might cut short the life of their largest resource.
ODAC bulletin
News briefs from ODAC.
Oil supplies: we’re on a knife-edge
OIL supplies are now so tight that just 1.5 million barrels of oil a day – less than 2% of global production – is keeping another potentially devastating surge in energy prices at bay, experts have warned.
Blowing the whistle on Yucca Mountain
Why I quit the Nuclear Waste Technical Review Board.
The answer’s not just blowing in the wind
SCOTTISHPOWER chief executive Ian Russell has warned that the government’s ambitious targets for green energy are at risk unless other forms of renewable energy other than wind power are developed.
Green energy may be free but it ain’t gonna be cheap
The cost of the upgraded Scottish grid, some £625m on current plans, is to be spread across the bills of all 25m electricity customers in the UK on the grounds that, while Scotland has a lot of the best wind, the pursuit of a low carbon economy is in the interests of all who live on these islands.
U.S. addiction to oil puts it at mercy of risky characters
Ultimately, it’s up to U.S. consumers to wean themselves from their costly addiction to oil, which increasingly is coming from less-than-stable parts of the world. And this will require some tough love.
What if…
It’s 2006. Bin Laden conquers Arabia. Crude prices are nudging $100. A far-off fantasy? Don’t you believe it, writes Oliver Morgan
