• Deepwater drilling thriving in Gulf after BP spill – Austin American-Statesman

    Updated: 2011-12-31 05:08:16
    Austin American-StatesmanDeepwater drilling thriving in Gulf after BP spillAustin American-StatesmanJon Fahey/AP Satellite oil rig Danny Adkins, owned by Noble Oil, can be seen on the horizon from the Perdido platform, operated by Shell Oil Co., on Oct...

  • Tang Capital sues Affymetrix, alleging fraud – San Francisco Chronicle

    Updated: 2011-12-31 03:57:13
    Tang Capital sues Affymetrix, alleging fraudSan Francisco ChronicleA boat last month takes part in the effort to clean up a spill at a well operated by Chevron off Brazil. Affymetrix was sued for fraud by investment firm Tang Capital Partners, which cl...

  • Gas prices dip below $3 a gallon at some Billings stations – Billings Gazette

    Updated: 2011-12-31 03:12:08
    Gas prices dip below $3 a gallon at some Billings stationsBillings GazetteThe price was $2.99 a gallon for regular unleaded at both the Conoco/Town Pump on King Avenue West and 32nd Street West and up the street at the Holiday Station, at Rosebud Lane ...

  • IBM, Chevron, Boeing: Dow Losers – TheStreet.com

    Updated: 2011-12-31 01:16:55
    IBM, Chevron, Boeing: Dow LosersTheStreet.comShares of Chevron(CVX) were also lower, declining 1% to $106.40. The energy company's shares increased more than 16% in 2011, as the safety of dividends and high crude oil prices buoyed the shares of the...

  • US exports record amount of refined fuels in 2011 – Los Angeles Times

    Updated: 2011-12-31 00:59:03
    Los Angeles TimesUS exports record amount of refined fuels in 2011Los Angeles TimesAbove, the Conoco-Phillips Alliance refinery in Belle Chasse, La., which processes more than 200 million barrels a year. (Carolyn Cole, Los Angeles Times / June 2, 2010)...

  • Best of 2011 on Domestic Fuel

    Updated: 2011-12-31 00:24:54
    Biofuel Blog War The Ultimate Syndication of BioFuel News BioFuel News What is BioFuel What is BioDiesel about RSS Best of 2011 on Domestic Fuel December 30th , 2011 by Foxy 2011 was a pivotal year for the Domestic Fuel industry . The renewal of the biodiesel tax incentive at the end of 2010 led to record production this year and a renewed optimism for the industry . Meanwhile , the ethanol industry saw the approval of E15 in newer vehicles at the beginning of the year , although it has yet to make it to the pump , and the end of 2011 means the end of the Volumetric Ethanol Excise Tax Credit and associated import tariff . 2011 was also a great year at the races , with NASCAR fueled with 15 American . Ethanol The most popular renewable news stories on Domestic Fuel this year : included Newt

  • Canadian Dollar Falls Versus Major Peers as Crude Oil Declines – BusinessWeek

    Updated: 2011-12-30 23:59:57
    Business RecorderCanadian Dollar Falls Versus Major Peers as Crude Oil DeclinesBusinessWeek30 (Bloomberg) -- The Canadian dollar fell against all of its most-traded counterparts as declines in stocks and crude oil, the nation's biggest export, dimm...

  • China court accepts lawsuit against ConocoPhillips – Business Recorder (blog)

    Updated: 2011-12-30 23:40:53
    Upstream OnlineChina court accepts lawsuit against ConocoPhillipsBusiness Recorder (blog)A Chinese court has agreed to hear a lawsuit brought against US firm ConocoPhillips by a group of fishermen over an oil spill, state media said Friday. The June le...

  • EIA Reports Unexpected Increase in Crude Oil Inventories – Live Charts – Live Wire

    Updated: 2011-12-30 22:33:45
    EIA Reports Unexpected Increase in Crude Oil InventoriesLive Charts - Live WireCrude Oil futures gained on Thursday despite increase in supplies data. The crude oil futures found support from threat of Iran's threat to disrupt oil tankers traffic. ...

  • Local fisherfolk in Nigeria call for accountability after massive Shell oil spill – Free Speech Radio News

    Updated: 2011-12-30 22:32:25
    Free Speech Radio NewsLocal fisherfolk in Nigeria call for accountability after massive Shell oil spillFree Speech Radio NewsOver a million gallons of oil were spilled into the ocean 75 miles off the coast from a deepwater oil field operated by the Ang...

  • Iowa Biodiesel Production Sets Record in 2011

    Updated: 2011-12-30 22:22:41
    Biofuel Blog War The Ultimate Syndication of BioFuel News BioFuel News What is BioFuel What is BioDiesel about RSS Iowa Biodiesel Production Sets Record in 2011 December 30th , 2011 by Foxy 2010 was a tough year for Iowa’s biodiesel producers , but the industry roared back to life in 2011 and set a new production . record According to the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association IRFA ten of Iowa’s 13 biodiesel plants operated during 2011 and produced a combined 169 million gallons . With plants restarting throughout the year , the rate of biodiesel production in December reached over 250 million gallons annualized Iowa produced 48 million gallons of biodiesel in 2010. The previous record production was 85 million gallons in 2009. 2011 has been a banner year for Iowa biodiesel , 8221 said IRFA

  • Oil futures slip, but notch yearly gain of 8.2% – MarketWatch

    Updated: 2011-12-30 21:58:28
    BloombergOil futures slip, but notch yearly gain of 8.2%MarketWatchBy Myra P. Saefong, MarketWatch SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) — Crude oil futures closed lower Friday as traders eyed developments in Europe and Iran and their potential risks to global...

  • ESA Renewables Enters Four Solar Agreements

    Updated: 2011-12-30 21:47:59
    Biofuel Blog War The Ultimate Syndication of BioFuel News BioFuel News What is BioFuel What is BioDiesel about RSS ESA Renewables Enters Four Solar Agreements December 30th , 2011 by Foxy ESA Renewables ESA a leading turnkey solar solutions provider , has entered into separate multi-year operation and maintenance O M contracts with four solar farms in North . Carolina The four O M agreements are : with The Murphy Solar Farm , which is approximately eight acres in size and consists of 4,298 ground-mounted solar panels . The solar installation is located on the grounds of the Martins Creek Elementary . School The Wingate Solar Farm , also located in Murphy , N.C . which consists of 4,340 solar panels . This solar project has been installed on a tract of land which is approximately seven

  • Shale gas is starting to affect markets….

    Updated: 2011-12-30 07:05:28
    Home by Sector Biofuels Carbon Smart Grid Renewables Solar Storage Transport Water Cleantech News Submit Blog Press Release Advertise Jobs About About Cleantech Blog What is Cleantech Bloggers Bookshelf Contact Cleantech Blog Blog With Us Global Photovoltaics : The Little Engine That Could Shale gas is starting to affect markets On December 30, 2011, in Blog by Mark Henwood The oil gas ratio hit a new record high December 27th with gas trading at 3.11 mmBtu and WTI going for 101.25 bbl yielding an energy ratio of 5.61.   In simple terms this means gas is  trading at the equivalent of 18.05 bbl . crude The market is starting to notice this rapid shift in natural gas economics . Back on Dec 10 I mentioned a few of the sectors , such as chemical processing , that would be likely winners due

  • Top 10 Energy Related Stories of 2011

    Updated: 2011-12-29 08:10:57
    Join the forum discussion on this post Here are my choices for the Top 10 energy related stories of 2011. Don’t get too hung up on the relative rankings. They are mostly in no particular order, although I think the top story is pretty obvious. 1. The Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster On March 11, 2011 the [...]

  • Record Biodiesel Production Continues

    Updated: 2011-12-28 22:18:14
    Biofuel Blog War The Ultimate Syndication of BioFuel News BioFuel News What is BioFuel What is BioDiesel about RSS Record Biodiesel Production Continues December 28th , 2011 by Foxy Nearly 108 million gallons of biomass-based diesel were sold during the month of November , continuing a record year of production , according to figures released by the EPA Biodiesel makes up the vast majority of the EPA’s biomass-based diesel category under the Renewable Fuel Standard program , representing about 95 percent of the volume this . year In a news release from the National Biodiesel Board biodiesel production specifically had reached an all-time high 908 million gallons through the end of November . The previous annual record for biodiesel production was 690 million gallons in 2008. Biodiesel is

  • GROWMARK Streamlines Energy Delivery

    Updated: 2011-12-28 21:04:26
    Biofuel Blog War The Ultimate Syndication of BioFuel News BioFuel News What is BioFuel What is BioDiesel about RSS GROWMARK Streamlines Energy Delivery December 28th , 2011 by Foxy GROWMARK and FS Energy have given a whole new meaning to energy efficiency with the wireless Energy Business System wEBS which has streamlined their fuel delivery . system GROWMARK Information Management Solutions director Keith Milburn says wEBS was developed as a fuel billing solution that makes the record keeping process easier by providing instantaneous information such as fuel type , tank sizes , taxes and credits . Milburn says they developed wEBS when the fuel business started to get more complicated a few years ago . We no longer just handle gasoline and diesel , 8221 he said . We have high sulfur , low

  • EPA Lowers Cellulosic Ethanol Target

    Updated: 2011-12-28 19:20:05
    Biofuel Blog War The Ultimate Syndication of BioFuel News BioFuel News What is BioFuel What is BioDiesel about RSS EPA Lowers Cellulosic Ethanol Target December 28th , 2011 by Foxy Cellulosic ethanol continues to be out of reach for commercial use , according to the latest Renewable Fuels Standard RFS2 requirement s set by the Environmental Protection Agency for 2012. EPA has essentially reduced the mandate for cellulosic , recognizing the fact that there aren’t supplies out there to meet it , 8221 said USDA chief economist Joe Glauber . Back in 2007, Congress set a goal of 500 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol to be produced in 2012, but only a very small fraction of that is now expected to come to fruition with a target of just 8.65 million gallons . The big question that’s been out

  • What Do You Think Is Biggest Ag Story Of 2011

    Updated: 2011-12-28 14:30:04
    Biofuel Blog War The Ultimate Syndication of BioFuel News BioFuel News What is BioFuel What is BioDiesel about RSS What Do You Think Is Biggest Ag Story Of 2011 December 28th , 2011 by Foxy It looks like beef wins in our latest ZimmPoll . We asked the question , What is your Christmas Holiday dinner entree Beef got 34 of the vote followed by Pork Ham Other cut at 27 then Turkey at 24 then Lobster and Wild game each got 7 and Fish at 1 I guess you normally only have one at a time but I like them all Our new ZimmPoll is now live . We’re asking the question , What do you think is biggest ag story of 2011 There were a lot of big ag stories so we had to pick a few that stood out for us . Let us know what you . think ZimmPoll is sponsored by Rhea+Kaiser a full-service advertising public

  • Global Photovoltaics: The Little Engine That Could

    Updated: 2011-12-27 19:10:25
    : Home by Sector Biofuels Carbon Smart Grid Renewables Solar Storage Transport Water Cleantech News Submit Blog Press Release Advertise Jobs About About Cleantech Blog What is Cleantech Bloggers Bookshelf Contact Cleantech Blog Blog With Us It’s A Nano World Global Photovoltaics : The Little Engine That Could On December 27, 2011, in Blog by admin When Ron Pernick co-founded the green-tech market research company Clean Edge back in 2000, he made a bold prediction . By 2010, he said , solar power would be a 23.5 billion . industry To say that Pernick’s prediction was greeted with skepticism is somewhat of an understatement . In 2000, sales of photovoltaics PVs totaled 2.5 billion , worldwide . Pernick himself , who at the time , had already been an accomplished market researcher for over a

  • Holiday Reading

    Updated: 2011-12-27 08:41:26
    I’m off on vacation for a couple weeks. In the meantime, here are a few books I’ve read over the past year that I’d recommend: The Quest: Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World. Dan Yergin’s new history and prognosis for energy is not without its flaws, but on the whole, it’s a great [...]

  • Grading My Predictions for 2011

    Updated: 2011-12-26 07:43:41
    Join the forum discussion on this post In my list of Top 10 Energy Related Stories of 2010, I made three predictions for 2011. Those predictions were: I believe high oil prices will continue to put a strain on the economies of oil-importing nations. I expect that we will see oil prices once again head above [...]

  • Petrol Politics: How Much Should an Oil Spill Cost?

    Updated: 2011-12-23 17:17:00
    How serious should the penalties for an oil spill be? In early November, Chevron and its drilling partner Transocean accidentally spilled some 3,000 barrels of oil into the ocean off the coast of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. As oil spill go, it was relatively minor—although it is a sign of how hard offshore drilling [...]

  • R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 6 – EROEI Explained

    Updated: 2011-12-22 06:45:53
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV I present the first of several mini-presentations on energy topics of interest. The presentations will be short, 5 to 8 minute presentations with 3 to 5 slides each. This week’s presentation is on Energy Return on Energy Invested (EROEI). I [...]

  • Marking this Blog to Market

    Updated: 2011-12-20 14:30:17
    Brad DeLong had an inspired post last week in which he took a look back to see where his prior beliefs had been undermined by reality. I like the idea. Here, then, are a few of my posts from the past year that have fared poorly over time: “Five Energy Stories To Watch In 2011”. [...]

  • Incoherent Thinking About an Iranian Oil Embargo

    Updated: 2011-12-19 18:57:16
    In the not so distant future – indeed perhaps only months from now – the United States and Europe may enact a mix of sanctions against the Central Bank of Iran (CBI) and Iranian oil exports as part of an effort to stall the Iranian nuclear program. Sanctions against the CBI would leave many current [...]

  • It’s A Nano World

    Updated: 2011-12-19 14:04:53
    Home by Sector Biofuels Carbon Smart Grid Renewables Solar Storage Transport Water Cleantech News Submit Blog Press Release Advertise Jobs About About Cleantech Blog What is Cleantech Bloggers Bookshelf Contact Cleantech Blog Blog With Us Shale Gas Poses Financial Threat to Clean Tech It’s A Nano World On December 19, 2011, in Blog by Richard T . Stuebi For the uninitiated , nanotechnology” refers to the science of the very small , engineering particles and their corresponding materials at the nanometer scale . For a sense of perspective , at one-billionth of a meter , a nanometer is about 1 60,000 of the width of a human hair , so we’re talking engineering not just at the microscopic scale , but the electron-microscopic . scale Why bother Because researchers from across a number of

  • Shale Gas Poses Financial Threat to Clean Tech

    Updated: 2011-12-15 14:45:47
    Home by Sector Biofuels Carbon Smart Grid Renewables Solar Storage Transport Water Cleantech News Submit Blog Press Release Advertise Jobs About About Cleantech Blog What is Cleantech Bloggers Bookshelf Contact Cleantech Blog Blog With Us Shale gas drives oil gas spread to a new record Shale Gas Poses Financial Threat to Clean Tech On December 15, 2011, in Blog by Bill Paul By Bill Paul What a coincidence that as ExxonMobil’s interest in shale gas grows , the company declares , in its latest long-term energy forecast , that it has seen the future and it is natural gas . Or as the Wall Street Journal put it , Exxon Declares Gas King” Every clean tech advocate and investor should beware this statement and others like it that fossil fuel’ers like Daniel Yergin have recently made because it

  • R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 5 – Cleantech, Oil Industry, Energy Careers

    Updated: 2011-12-15 04:27:34
    Join the forum discussion on this post This week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV answers the following viewer questions: Do you have any comments on Matthew Nordan’s recent 4-part response to Peter Thiel’s comments on cleantech VC as a failure? Do you retain any oil industry ties that your readers/viewers might like disclosed? What books do you recommend [...]

  • Shale gas drives oil / gas spread to a new record

    Updated: 2011-12-14 00:07:01
    Home by Sector Biofuels Carbon Smart Grid Renewables Solar Storage Transport Water Cleantech News Submit Blog Press Release Advertise Jobs About About Cleantech Blog What is Cleantech Bloggers Bookshelf Contact Cleantech Blog Blog With Us The State of Cleantech Venture Capital Shale Gas Poses Financial Threat to Clean Tech Shale gas drives oil gas spread to a new record On December 14, 2011, in Blog by Mark Henwood On January 13, 1994 the ratio( of the price of oil to the price of natural gas was 1.14.   Today it hit a record high over this period of 5.26.   Gas traded at 3.28 today , just 21 of the 15.38 mmBtu it traded for on December 13, 2005.   Shale gas is providing gas in volume at moderate cost driving this record high price . disparity IMO , the impact of moderately priced gas

  • NC DENR Revises Scope of N.C. Shale Gas Study Based on Public Comment

    Updated: 2011-12-13 19:27:07
    Today, officials from the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources (NCDENR) released changes made to the outline for a study of the potential environmental and economic impacts of shale gas exploration and development in North Carolina based on public comments received in the fall of 2011. Changes made included: •    Adding a section specifically [...]

  • The State of Cleantech Venture Capital

    Updated: 2011-12-12 19:32:41
    Home by Sector Biofuels Carbon Smart Grid Renewables Solar Storage Transport Water Cleantech News Submit Blog Press Release Advertise Jobs About About Cleantech Blog What is Cleantech Bloggers Bookshelf Contact Cleantech Blog Blog With Us EV Companies Need to Douse the Fire Issue Shale gas drives oil gas spread to a new record The State of Cleantech Venture Capital On December 12, 2011, in Blog by Richard T . Stuebi I generally like creating my own content , riffing off other newsy material I find in the print or electronic press , but sometimes someone writes such good stuff that it’s really hard to improve on it . This is one of those . times Also , sometimes I’m just too busy to come up with original material or do the requisite secondary work to make a broader set of points . This is

  • Why Some Republicans are Delusional About Oil and Energy Policy

    Updated: 2011-12-12 08:09:32
    Join the forum discussion on this post Two Sides of a Coin In a recent video blog about energy politics, I stated that in my opinion each of the major political parties in the U.S. only gets half of the energy picture. Democrats tend to demonize oil usage, with many believing that we can shift to [...]

  • Oil Shale Resources and Fact Sheets

    Updated: 2011-12-08 16:01:01
    The US Department of Energy (DOE) states on its fossil energy website that “an objective look at [alternatives to petroleum] points to the Nation’s untapped oil shale as a strategically located, long-term source of reliable, affordable, and secure oil.” A task force to develop a program and make recommendations to advance the commercialization of the [...]

  • The New Conventional Wisdom of Oil

    Updated: 2011-12-06 09:57:13
    When Foreign Policy ran an essay in September declaring that “the Americas, not the Middle East, will be the world capital of energy”, it was a novel, if questionable, thesis. Two months later it’s basically conventional wisdom. Articles in the New York Times, Washington Post, and Financial Times have advanced similar arguments. The newest installment [...]

  • The Resource Triangle

    Updated: 2011-12-05 19:19:27
    I was recently exposed to the “Resource Triangle” during a talk about the future of fossil fuels and thought this visual had educational value in that it conveys the point that unconventional fossil fuels we are hearing more about these days have always been there, but now, thanks to advances in technology and rising energy [...]

  • China to Embrace Fracking In an Effort to Ramp up Energy Production

    Updated: 2011-12-05 08:29:19
    Join the forum discussion on this post The following is a guest post from OilPrice.com. The subject — China’s foray into hydraulic fracturing — was also the topic of an energy roundtable I participated in this past summer: Roundtable on China’s Energy Future. My view is that the more energy China can produce domestically, [...]

  • EV Companies Need to Douse the Fire Issue

    Updated: 2011-12-05 00:34:26
    Home by Sector Biofuels Carbon Smart Grid Renewables Solar Storage Transport Water Cleantech News Submit Blog Press Release Advertise Jobs About About Cleantech Blog What is Cleantech Bloggers Bookshelf Contact Cleantech Blog Blog With Us Predictions For Cleantech In 2012 The State of Cleantech Venture Capital EV Companies Need to Douse the Fire Issue On December 5, 2011, in Blog by Richard T . Stuebi Long a dream of environmentalists , and long a laughing-stock among car enthusiasts because of lame designs e.g . GM’s EV1 and a long litany of goofy looking vehicles that look like a cross-breed between golf carts and toys electric vehicles EVs are finally starting to make a real impact in the mass-market auto marketplace . Of all the electric vehicles , the most prominent is the Chevy Volt

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