• BP Must Indemnify Halliburton for Gulf Oil Spill, Judge Says – BusinessWeek

    Updated: 2012-01-31 19:44:22
    BP Must Indemnify Halliburton for Gulf Oil Spill, Judge SaysBusinessWeek31 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc can't collect from Halliburton Co. part of the $40 billion in cleanup costs and economic losses caused by the 2010 oil-well blowout and Gulf of Mexico ...

  • Will disgraced Shell boss Sir Philip Watts be stripped of his knighthood? – Royal Dutch Shell plc .com

    Updated: 2012-01-31 19:12:59
    Will disgraced Shell boss Sir Philip Watts be stripped of his knighthood?Royal Dutch Shell plc .comAs indicated, Shell has threatened legal action in relation to this subject. We are 100% confident that for obvious reasons, no action will be taken. We ...

  • Refiners, Union Prepare for Possible Strike – Wall Street Journal

    Updated: 2012-01-31 19:06:24
    Inside INdiana BusinessRefiners, Union Prepare for Possible StrikeWall Street JournalShell Oil Co., the US arm of Royal Dutch Shell PLC is the lead negotiator for the refining industry during the contract talks. The company operates 1.2 million barrels...

  • Bryce misleads again on land, sound, resource use – REVE

    Updated: 2012-01-31 19:02:38
    Bryce misleads again on land, sound, resource useREVE... rehashing previous articles written elsewhere, has a new opinion column in City Journal, the in-house publication of his employer, the Manhattan Institute for Public Policy, a group that receives...

  • The Problem in Exxon’s Q4 Profits – Minyanville.com

    Updated: 2012-01-31 19:00:45
    Minyanville.comThe Problem in Exxon's Q4 ProfitsMinyanville.comBut for Exxon, the story for this quarter is very much the same story as the last several quarters -- and similar to a fourth quarter report already made by Chevron (CVX) and soon to be...

  • BP Must Indemnify Halliburton for Gulf Oil Spill, Judge Says – San Francisco Chronicle

    Updated: 2012-01-31 18:58:50
    Houston Chronicle (blog)BP Must Indemnify Halliburton for Gulf Oil Spill, Judge SaysSan Francisco Chronicle31 (Bloomberg) -- BP Plc can't collect from Halliburton Co. part of the $40 billion in cleanup costs and economic losses caused by the 2010 o...

  • Will China and India Undermine Sanctions Against Iran?

    Updated: 2012-01-31 18:58:09
    If analysts and reporters know one thing about sanctions, it’s that if you don’t have complete international cooperation, they don’t...

  • Exxon lands with a thud; energy stocks fall – MarketWatch

    Updated: 2012-01-31 18:56:51
    Exxon lands with a thud; energy stocks fallMarketWatchBy Steve Gelsi, MarketWatch NEW YORK (MarketWatch) — Energy stocks fell back Tuesday as the broad equities market retreated from early gains, with shares of Exxon Mobil Corp. ranking at the bottom...

  • Vitol Sells Forties Crude; Shell Lifts Bonny Light Force Majeure – BusinessWeek

    Updated: 2012-01-31 18:49:07
    Vitol Sells Forties Crude; Shell Lifts Bonny Light Force MajeureBusinessWeekRoyal Dutch Shell Plc failed to sell Russian Urals crude in northwest Europe. Shell said it lifted force majeure, a legal clause allowing it to miss shipments, on Bonny Light c...

  • Options Activity Alert: BP, RSH, FTI, MYGN – Wall Street Pit

    Updated: 2012-01-31 18:42:35
    Options Activity Alert: BP, RSH, FTI, MYGNWall Street PitBy Caitlin Duffy Jan 31, 2012, 1:36 PM Author's Website BP – BP PLC – Far out-of-the-money call options on BP saw heavier-than-usual activity on Tuesday afternoon, with shares in the oil ...

  • Experts: US ill-prepared for oil spill off Cuba – BusinessWeek

    Updated: 2012-01-31 18:40:23
    CTV.caExperts: US ill-prepared for oil spill off CubaBusinessWeekBy LAURA WIDES-MUNOZ The US is not ready to handle an oil spill if drilling off the Cuban coast goes awry but can be better prepared with monitoring systems and other basic steps, experts...

  • Refinery Closures Lead to Rising Gas Prices and Job Losses

    Updated: 2012-01-31 05:31:35
    Join the forum discussion on this post Refinery Closures and the Keystone Pipeline There have been several announcements in recent months of refinery closures that will likely impact gasoline supplies (and prices) on the East Coast. Some of those closures have been on the East Coast. Others — such as the Hovensa refinery in the Virgin [...]

  • USDA Invites Applications for Energy Projects

    Updated: 2012-01-30 18:02:15
    Biofuel Blog War The Ultimate Syndication of BioFuel News BioFuel News What is BioFuel What is BioDiesel about RSS USDA Invites Applications for Energy Projects January 30th , 2012 by Foxy The USDA is seeking applications to provide assistance for ag producers and rural small businesses to complete a variety of energy efficiency and renewable energy . projects Renewable energy development presents an enormous economic opportunity for rural America , 8221 said Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack . This funding will assist rural farmers , ranchers and business owners to build renewable energy projects , providing opportunities for new technologies , create green jobs and help America become more energy self-sufficient . 8221 The Rural Energy for America Program REAP is designed to help

  • Farmworkers Install Solar Photovoltaic Systems

    Updated: 2012-01-30 17:05:20
    Biofuel Blog War The Ultimate Syndication of BioFuel News BioFuel News What is BioFuel What is BioDiesel about RSS Farmworkers Install Solar Photovoltaic Systems January 30th , 2012 by Foxy New Mexico farmworkers are receiving green job training installing solar panels , according to the Association of Farm Worker Opportunity . Programs HELP-New Mexico a statewide community-based organization headquartered in Albuquerque , helped prepare a group of farmworkers to obtain certifications that will provide them with the skills , knowledge , and ability to work together with journeyman electricians to design and install solar panel systems . The 48-hour training culminated over the weekend with a hands-on solar panel installation of a system on the homes of two low-income families in Berino ,

  • Butamax and Gevo Continue Battle

    Updated: 2012-01-30 16:21:31
    Biofuel Blog War The Ultimate Syndication of BioFuel News BioFuel News What is BioFuel What is BioDiesel about RSS Butamax and Gevo Continue Battle January 30th , 2012 by Foxy The battle between Butamax™ and Gevo over isobutanol technology . continues Last week , Gevo received a landmark patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office for its GIFT(R separation unit , a central part of the company’s fermentation technology for the production of isobutanol . The patent , Recovery of Higher Alcohols From Dilute Aqueous Solutions , 8221 addresses the separation technology used to produce propanols , butanols , pentanols , and hexanols , and also address how ethanol plants can be retrofitted to produce higher alcohols . At the same time , Gevo also filed a lawsuit against Butamax™

  • Deep Pu

    Updated: 2012-01-30 15:01:13
    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 Gartner Forecasts 100,000 Electric Car Sales for 2012 Deep Pu On January 30, 2012, in Blog by Richard T . Stuebi The USA Today recently ran an uncommonly in-depth article about the massive efforts to clean-up the decommissioned and horribly contaminated Hanford nuclear site in rural Washington . state A relic of the Manhattan Project and the Cold War , Hanford was the primary site for the production and refinement of plutonium atomic symbol Pu for the U.S . arsenal of nuclear weapons . It was plutonium processed at Hanford that went into the very first

  • Electric Car and Hybrid Car Sales will Triple in Next Six Years

    Updated: 2012-01-28 05:19:56
    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 Gartner Forecasts 100,000 Electric Car Sales for 2012 Deep Pu Electric Car and Hybrid Car Sales will Triple in Next Six Years On January 28, 2012, in Blog by John Addison from original post at Clean Fleet Report Pike Research’s John Gartner forecasts that global sales of hybrid and electric cars will grow from 995,000 in 2011 to 2,870,000 in 2017. Half the hybrid cars and all of the EVs will use lithium battery packs by 2017. In fact , the latest hybrid cars from Ford , Buick , Honda , Hyundai and Kai use lithium batteries not nickel-metal hydride NiMH In

  • 2011 Biodiesel Production Officially Tops 1 Billion Gallons

    Updated: 2012-01-27 19:55:27
    Biofuel Blog War The Ultimate Syndication of BioFuel News BioFuel News What is BioFuel What is BioDiesel about RSS 2011 Biodiesel Production Officially Tops 1 Billion Gallons January 27th , 2012 by Foxy U.S . biodiesel production officially topped one billion gallons in 2011, according to final year-end numbers released by the Environmental Protection Agency . today The total volume of nearly 1.1 billion gallons is by far a record for the industry and easily exceeded the 800 million gallon target required under the EPA’s Renewable Fuel Standard RFS The previous record for biodiesel production was about 690 million gallons in 2008. National Biodiesel Board NBB vice president of federal affairs Anne Steckel says the milestone demonstrates that the biodiesel tax incentive and the Renewable

  • Synergies of Livestock and Ethanol

    Updated: 2012-01-27 19:43:49
    Biofuel Blog War The Ultimate Syndication of BioFuel News BioFuel News What is BioFuel What is BioDiesel about RSS Synergies of Livestock and Ethanol January 27th , 2012 by Foxy There is a lot made about tensions between the ethanol and livestock industries but the distillers grains co-product of ethanol production is providing significant benefits for animal producers even as it has helped prop up corn . prices A great discussion at the 6th Annual Iowa Renewable Fuels Summit featured corn and cattle organizations on the same panel talking about the Synergies of Livestock and Ethanol . 8221 Moderator Iowa Agriculture Secretary Bill Northey opened the discussion by noting that sales of crops and livestock have risen as ethanol production has increased from 12 billion in 2002 6 billion in

  • How Not To Argue That We’re Running Out Of Affordable Oil

    Updated: 2012-01-27 15:38:21
    I made a New Year’s resolution to spend less time on this blog explaining why other people are wrong. But...

  • R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 9 – Energy Tradeoffs with Palm Oil & Fracking

    Updated: 2012-01-26 07:58:52
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I answer questions on palm oil and hydraulic fracturing (fracking). Some of the topics discussed are: The EPA decision to exclude palm oil from qualifying as renewable biomass under RFS2 The Chinese influence over the palm oil trade The issue of trade-offs in our [...]

  • Gartner Forecasts 100,000 Electric Car Sales for 2012

    Updated: 2012-01-24 16:31:20
    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 U.S . Water Infrastructure : FAIL Almost Gartner Forecasts 100,000 Electric Car Sales for 2012 On January 24, 2012, in Blog by John Addison from original post at Clean Fleet Report Gartner , the largest technology market research firm , is forecasting 100,000 electric car sales in 2012 in the United States . Yesterday , I took in the presentation at the SV Forum and then talked with Thilo Koslowski , Vice President of Gartner’s Automotive and Vehicle Practice . He acknowledged that 100,000 is quite a jump from the 18,000 sold in 2011 which included 9,674

  • Parsing A New Study On Natural Gas Exports

    Updated: 2012-01-23 08:18:37
    The EIA released a new study last week that attempts to quantify the market impacts of increased natural gas exports from the...

  • Are President Obama’s Policies Causing U.S. Oil Production to Rise?

    Updated: 2012-01-23 07:10:58
    Join the forum discussion on this post Question: What do President Barack Obama and ex-President Jimmy Carter have in common? Answer: Both presided over strong increases in domestic oil production that were a result of decisions made before they took office, as I explain in this post. In my recent post The Oilman in the White House, [...]

  • U.S. Water Infrastructure: FAIL (Almost)

    Updated: 2012-01-23 00:57:35
    . : 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 Ford Expands Customer Choice Lowers Manufacturing Cost Gartner Forecasts 100,000 Electric Car Sales for 2012 U.S . Water Infrastructure : FAIL Almost On January 23, 2012, in Blog by Richard T . Stuebi The Water Innovations Alliance WIA recently completed an assessment of the state of the U.S . water infrastructure , which was given an overall grade of D- by the American Society of Civil Engineers in its most recent infrastructure report card Underlying that nearly failing grade , the WIA produced some startling statistics in a recent newsletter not

  • North Carolina Energy Profile from the Energy Information Administration

    Updated: 2012-01-20 22:32:41
    This map of North Carolina shows the location and availability of energy sources and transmission lines, major power plants as well as renewable energy potential for North Carolina. Electricity, nuclear and renewable energy profiles for the state are also available along with supporting data tables in Microsoft Excel format.

  • Fracked: The Debate Over Shale Gas Deepens

    Updated: 2012-01-20 10:00:54
    Is shale gas good for us or not? Most of that argument has been over the potential risks that hydrofracking for shale gas might pose to water supplies—risks that were highlighted again this week when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) came to Dimock, PA, to test groundwater in the area. You might know Dimock from [...]

  • The Global Energy Supply Is Getting Greener. It’s Just Not Happening Fast Enough

    Updated: 2012-01-19 18:40:14
    With President Obama’s rejection (for now) of the proposed Keystone XL oil sands pipeline fresh in everyone’s mind—and conservatives and the oil industry already hammering him, even as greens sing his praises—you can be sure that energy issues will play a bigger role than usual in the 2012 election. So it’s worth taking a step [...]

  • Pipeline Politics: Keystone Is Dead (For Now). What Happens Next?

    Updated: 2012-01-19 10:00:40
    Chalk a win up for the environmentalists. On Wednesday, the White House announced that it was rejecting—on the recommendation of the State Department—the proposed Keystone XL pipeline that would have brought 700,000 barrels a day of oil sands crude from western Canada into the U.S. In many ways the announcement—forced by Congressional legislation passed late [...]

  • More Than Cranes Are Whooping Over the Keystone Pipeline XL Decision

    Updated: 2012-01-18 20:59:00
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  • Pipeline Politics: Obama Administration to Reject Keystone Pipeline

    Updated: 2012-01-18 20:11:02
    WASHINGTON (AP) — A senior Obama administration official says the White House will reject a Canadian company’s plan to build an oil pipeline from Canada to Texas. The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the decision has not been announced, says a February deadline set by Congress doesn’t allow for a proper review [...]

  • R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 8 – Biomass Pros and Cons

    Updated: 2012-01-18 18:15:54
    Join the forum discussion on this post In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I give a short presentation on the pros and cons of using biomass for energy. People tend to have strong feelings on this topic in one way or another, and I will explore a bit of the reason for the [...]

  • Would Natural Gas Exports Make U.S. Prices More Volatile?

    Updated: 2012-01-17 23:00:10
    Debate over whether the United States should export natural gas is heating up. One of the most common questions being...

  • Generation Technologies Assessment from EPRI

    Updated: 2012-01-17 18:41:51
    When I address the topic of electricity generation with teachers and students, a key message I aim to to convey is that every energy source used to generate electricity has its advantages and disadvantages.  This knowledge is key to evaluating both renewable and non-renewable energy sources for their potential to provide electricity to a growing [...]

  • Ford Expands Customer Choice – Lowers Manufacturing Cost

    Updated: 2012-01-17 14:58:36
    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 Is Sodium Sulfur NaS Battery a viable Grid Energy Storage Solution U.S . Water Infrastructure : FAIL Almost Ford Expands Customer Choice Lowers Manufacturing Cost On January 17, 2012, in Blog by John Addison original post at Clean Fleet Report The new Ford Fusion gives car owners unprecedented choice in powertrains and fuel economy . The Ford Fusion can be offered with an efficient EcoBoost engine or as a hybrid with better mileage than any midsized sedan or as a plug-in hybrid that allows many trips to use zero . gasoline Classic styling , smooth driving

  • Is Sodium Sulfur (NaS) Battery a viable Grid Energy Storage Solution?

    Updated: 2012-01-16 16:41:06
    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 Blue Is The New Green Ford Expands Customer Choice Lowers Manufacturing Cost Is Sodium Sulfur NaS Battery a viable Grid Energy Storage Solution On January 16, 2012, in Blog by David Anthony By David Anthony and Tao Zheng On September 21st , 2011, sodium-sulfur NAS batteries installed at Mitsubishi Materials Corp’s Tsukuba Plant , Japan , caught on fire . It took firefighters more than 8 hours to control the blaze , and two weeks to extinguish the fire . NGK Insulators Ltd . the company that manufactured the energy storage system , said the fire

  • Blue Is The New Green

    Updated: 2012-01-16 00:21:07
    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 Kia Optima Hybrid Car Review Is Sodium Sulfur NaS Battery a viable Grid Energy Storage Solution Blue Is The New Green On January 16, 2012, in Blog by Richard T . Stuebi I don’t know exactly when green” became the de facto official color of environmentalism , but it dates back at least to the 1970s , when European political parties rooted in ardent environmental positions took the name . Green” But , as Paul Markille noted in The Economist s excellent annual round-up of speculations for the new year The World in 2012 there seems to be a movement afoot to

  • R-Squared Energy TV: Episode 7 – The Carbon Emissions Quandary

    Updated: 2012-01-11 18:58:11
    Join the forum discussion on this post In the first episode of R-Squared Energy TV for 2012, I give a short presentation on global warming. I believe there are a number of misconceptions around the U.S. contribution to greenhouse gas emissions, and I provide some graphics that may surprise some viewers. Some of the topics discussed [...]

  • Kia Optima Hybrid – Car Review

    Updated: 2012-01-10 19:26:43
    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 Banking on a Low-Carbon Energy Future Blue Is The New Green Kia Optima Hybrid Car Review On January 10, 2012, in Blog by John Addison from original post at Clean Fleet Report It’s an ideal California day for this test drive of the Kia Optima Hybrid . As the day warms , we will be able to open the sunroof , even though it is January . The sky is so clear that we can see the Farallon Islands 26 miles from shore . The drive will combine city streets , freeway acceleration , hill climbing , and navigating curves over steep cliffs descending to the ocean . It

  • Banking on a Low-Carbon Energy Future

    Updated: 2012-01-09 14:31:49
    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 Think Small Electric City Cars Kia Optima Hybrid Car Review Banking on a Low-Carbon Energy Future On January 9, 2012, in Blog by Richard T . Stuebi One of the world’s largest banks , London-based  HSBC NYSE : HBC issued last September a very interesting research report entitled Sizing the Climate Economy” At less than 60 pages , it’s an excellent read for those interested in the future growth of the advanced energy economy . There are really too many highlights to capture all of them in this blog post , but here are a few . snippets HSBC pegs the global

  • What’s So Bad About Exporting Gasoline?

    Updated: 2012-01-09 05:57:57
    Join the forum discussion on this post One of my Top 10 Energy Stories of 2011 was the fact that the U.S. had become a net exporter of finished petroleum products such as diesel and gasoline. In fact, because gasoline and diesel prices were so high, U.S. fuel exports were valued at $88 billion, which [...]

  • World Energy Outlook 2011

    Updated: 2012-01-06 18:01:28
    The 2011 edition of the World Energy Outlook from the International Energy Agency (IEA) provides the “latest energy demand and supply projections for different future scenarios, broken down by country, fuel and sector.”  While the publication is not free, a 10 page executive summary(pdf) is available for download along with key graphs (pdf) as well [...]

  • The Oilman in the White House

    Updated: 2012-01-06 05:22:40
    Join the forum discussion on this post No, I am not talking about George W. Bush. I just finished the chapter on politics for my book, and I created a number of graphics to show the behavior of oil prices, production, imports, and consumption through the last eight presidential administrations. Here is one of the [...]

  • Think Small – Electric City Cars

    Updated: 2012-01-06 00:02:26
    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 New Year’s Resolution : Commercialize Free Energy Technology Banking on a Low-Carbon Energy Future Think Small Electric City Cars On January 6, 2012, in Blog by John Addison original post by John Addison at Clean Fleet Report Volkswagen’s Think Small” is ranked as the most successful campaign in advertising history according to AdAge.com The ad campaign ranks ahead of iconic Nike’s Just do it , Clairol’s Does she or doesn’t she , and Apple’s 1984.” VW’s agency DDB launched the Think Small” campaign in 1959. The VW Beetle soared in popularity at the same

  • War Imminent in Straits of Hormuz? $200 a Barrel Oil?

    Updated: 2012-01-04 08:06:12
    Join the forum discussion on this post Happy New Year everyone! I should be back on a regular posting schedule in about two weeks, and should have a new episode of R-Squared Energy TV up next week. For now, I offer the following timely guest post from OilPrice.com. ————————— War Imminent in Straits of Hormuz? $200 a [...]

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