Asia-Pacific: Get set for an LNG explosion in the region
New demand for LNG in the Asia-Pacific region.
Fossil Fuels
Analysis: Is Saudi oil in peril?
Islamist terrorists targeting Westerners in Saudi Arabia continues to raise security concerns despite assurances from authorities that the situation has not reached “crisis levels,” as the kingdom’s Islamic Affairs minister claims.
BP defends oil reserve estimate method
BP PLC on Monday defended its method of estimating oil and gas reserves, and said that its figures would not show a “material” change when it recalculates them for submission to regulators in the United States.
IMF calls for alternative oil initiative
Financial globalisation has raised the risks of contagion, or the knock-on effects through which one country’s vulnerabilities can spread through the global economic system.
Halliburton faces probe by US regulators
US regulators had formalised an investigation of whether a joint venture including Halliburton, the world’s biggest oilfield contractor, violated anti-bribery legislation to win orders for work on a Nigerian gas plant, the company said at the weekend.
BP may be forced to downgrade reserves
BP is preparing to downgrade up to 3 per cent of its oil reserves, according to investment bank Goldman Sachs.
CBS: Got Oil? (video)
Sharyn Alfonsi looks at reports that oil companies that claim to have growing reserves have not been able to match reserves with production. The companies may have been overstating supplies.
Asia seeks dialogue with Opec
Asian economies want talks with Opec as part of a strategy to improve regional energy security and combat rising oil demand and high prices, officials from the Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (Apec) group said yesterday.
Security of oil tankers fuels worry
It is far from clear, experts say, whether the existing fleet can handle the new production that Saudi Arabia and others have promised in coming months.
Author: U.S. faces a reality check over oil
Gasoline at $2 a gallon may be just a pleasant memory in a few years as energy prices continue to surge, warns author Paul Roberts.
Raymond: Facing Some Of The Hard Truths About Energy
For a variety of reasons, we expect fossil fuels to provide about 80 percent of the energy used in 2020, and to increase — and I emphasize increase — in absolute magnitude by about 65 million oil equivalent barrels per day. Just how much is 65 million barrels per day? Well, it is close to eight times Saudi Arabia’s current crude oil production.
US: Company mulls coal-to-diesel plant
A company has begun studying the feasibility of a plant that would convert coal into diesel fuel.
It would be the first plant of its kind in the United States.
