• Rosneft Said to Sell Primorsk Urals Crude to Shell, Vitol – Businessweek

    Updated: 2012-07-31 09:49:41
    Rosneft Said to Sell Primorsk Urals Crude to Shell, VitolBusinessweekOAO Rosneft, Russia's largest oil producer, sold four cargoes of 100000 metric tons each of Primorsk Urals crude to Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Vitol Group via a tender, three trade...

  • Zacks Earnings Trends Highlights: Bank of America, Exxon, Chevron, Conoco … – Businessweek

    Updated: 2012-07-31 09:48:38
    Zacks Earnings Trends Highlights: Bank of America, Exxon, Chevron, Conoco ...BusinessweekEnergy companies are a big drag on earnings this quarter, as declining profits at Exxon (NYSE:XOM), Chevron (NYSE:CVX) and Conoco (NYSE:COP) this week show. Total ...

  • Rosneft Said to Sell Primorsk Urals Crude to Shell, Vitol – Bloomberg

    Updated: 2012-07-31 09:46:38
    Rosneft Said to Sell Primorsk Urals Crude to Shell, VitolBloombergOAO Rosneft, Russia's largest oil producer, sold four cargoes of 100000 metric tons each of Primorsk Urals crude to Royal Dutch Shell Plc and Vitol Group via a tender, three traders ...

  • BP Posts Weak Earnings – Wall Street Journal

    Updated: 2012-07-31 09:41:54
    BP Posts Weak EarningsWall Street JournalLONDON—BP PLC on Tuesday posted a dramatic fall of 96% in adjusted profit for the second quarter as it wrote down the value of its assets by $5 billion, including some U.S. refineries, a suspended Alaskan oil ...

  • BP results show strain of Russia, US spill – Reuters

    Updated: 2012-07-31 09:31:36
    Proactive Investors UKBP results show strain of Russia, US spillReutersThe British oil company is struggling under the weight of litigation over the 2010 U.S. Gulf oil spill and a row with its Russian partners. Analyst Richard Griffiths of Oriel Securi...

  • BP results hit by $US5b US writedown – The Age

    Updated: 2012-07-31 09:26:41
    BP results hit by $US5b US writedownThe AgeBP Plc delivered the worst of a poor set of quarterly results among top oil companies on Tuesday, slashing $US5 billion off the value of US assets and undershooting expectations with its operating result. The ...

  • BP Earnings Retreat on Weaker Output, Refining – Businessweek

    Updated: 2012-07-31 09:16:48
    The GuardianBP Earnings Retreat on Weaker Output, RefiningBusinessweekBP Plc (BP/), Europe's second-biggest oil producer, reported a loss in the second quarter as the company wrote down the value of U.S. assets and output dropped. BP posted a net l...

  • Supreme Court allows Exxon Valdez, tanker in Alaska oil spill, to be … – Washington Post

    Updated: 2012-07-31 09:07:35
    BBC NewsSupreme Court allows Exxon Valdez, tanker in Alaska oil spill, to be ...Washington PostBy Associated Press, AP. NEW DELHI — India's Supreme Court has allowed the Exxon Valdez, the oil tanker involved in one of the worst U.S. oil spills, t...

  • Europe stocks wobble ahead of central bank action – MarketWatch

    Updated: 2012-07-31 09:03:40
    Europe stocks wobble ahead of central bank actionMarketWatchLONDON (MarketWatch) — Earnings disappointment weighed on European blue chips UBS AG and BP PLC on Tuesday, dragging those sectors south and leaving markets hard-pressed to carry on a rally ...

  • Iran’s Oil Minister Sees $100 as Fair Price for Crude, Mehr Says – Bloomberg

    Updated: 2012-07-31 08:56:34
    Trend.azIran's Oil Minister Sees $100 as Fair Price for Crude, Mehr SaysBloombergIran views $100 as a “fair” price for crude oil, the state-run Mehr news agency reported, citing the OPEC-member nation's oil minister. Rostam Qasemi said the ...

  • Scavenging For “Free” Energy Isn’t Necessarily Cheap

    Updated: 2012-07-30 12:26:59
    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 Bettering Batteries Scavenging For Free” Energy Isn’t Necessarily Cheap On July 30, 2012, in Blog by Richard T . Stuebi 5 watt-seconds . That’s the miniscule amount of energy released mid-stride upon the ground when the average person is walking . At least , so it was reported in a business plan I recently read from a college student group to pursue a new technology concept to harvest the otherwise-wasted energy created by foot traffic in dense pedestrian areas such as . airports It seems like a reasonable number , so let’s work with it . 5 watt-seconds ,

  • The Facts About Canada’s Oil Sands and Climate Change

    Updated: 2012-07-26 01:44:56
    Misinformation is hard to stamp out, because it tends to be repeated - so Robert Rapier goes in depth to examine Climate Change claims around the Keystone XL pipeline.

  • Why We Fail to Correctly Project Renewable Energy Growth

    Updated: 2012-07-23 18:29:25
    There’s an interesting discussion going on in the blogosphere over why energy experts “failed to predict” massive growth in renewable...

  • The Contribution of U.S. Oil Consumption to Global Carbon Emissions

    Updated: 2012-07-23 12:06:43
    . Home About Contact Advertise Consumer Energy Report Biodiversivist Choke Points Econbrowser Editors' Corner Power Policy R-Squared Energy Column By Robert Rapier on Jul 23, 2012 with 5 responses The Contribution of U.S . Oil Consumption to Global Carbon Emissions : Tags Tweet Financial Dependence Can Cause Bias Generally when I find myself having to clarify my position from a previous column , I find that I did not explain myself as well as I should have . Such is the case with last week’s column Environmentalism is a Profitable Business There were several ways in which that column was misunderstood , but I want to be clear that I was not arguing that people are drawn to environmentalism for the money . I believe that in most cases they are drawn to the cause because they genuinely care

  • Bettering Batteries

    Updated: 2012-07-23 01:41:46
    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 Thoughts from Intersolar 2012 Bettering Batteries On July 23, 2012, in Blog by Richard T . Stuebi I recently got an email entitled Trojan Tips” . Hmmmm , wonder what that could be about Alas , upon scrolling down from the subject line , I found the message provided advice from the battery manufacturer Trojan about proper battery management . practices The more you get into cleantech , the more you realize how central a role is played by battery technology Really , more broadly , energy storage technology is the central player in the cleantech drama .

  • Investment Opportunities in Natural Gas

    Updated: 2012-07-21 02:44:06
    Home About Contact Advertise Consumer Energy Report Biodiversivist Choke Points Econbrowser Editors' Corner Power Policy R-Squared Energy Column By Robert Rapier on Jul 20, 2012 with no responses Investment Opportunities in Natural Gas : Tags Energy Trends Insider natural gas newsletter Tweet In this week’s  Energy Trends Insider our featured stories were The Navy’s Biofuels Program and the Great Green Fleet Investment Opportunities in Natural Gas and the Short Term Oil Price Investment Outlook As we did last week , we would like to share one of those stories with regular readers of this column. Interested readers can find more information on the newsletter and subscribe at Energy Trends Insider The following story is exactly as it appeared in Energy Trends Insider , except the name of a

  • Rebutting the IECA Attack on My Natural Gas Exports Study

    Updated: 2012-07-20 14:12:10
    Last month, The Hamilton Project published my in-depth study assessing the costs and benefits of allowing U.S. liquefied natural gas...

  • It’s Not Just Spills—the Climate Risks of Arctic Drilling

    Updated: 2012-07-20 01:00:59
    As global warming—ironically—opens up once-iced over parts of the Arctic waters to drilling rigs, greens worry that a spill in the hostile environment of the far North is as inevitable as it would be devastating

  • Thoughts from Intersolar 2012

    Updated: 2012-07-18 22:35:25
    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 Hot Enough For You Thoughts from Intersolar 2012 On July 18, 2012, in Blog by Neal Dikeman By Guest Blogger Charles Waitman I spent a day at Intersolar North America in San Francisco , considered by some to be North America’s premier exhibition and conference for the solar industry . My career , to date has been in the oil industry . This was my second Intersolar conference . These are my . observations PV dominated the . conference Mark Pinto of Applied Materials gave an excellent presentation . He forecasts that innovation will support continued growth

  • Hot Enough For You?

    Updated: 2012-07-16 01:05:53
    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 7 Cent Solar Power for my House Hot Enough For You On July 16, 2012, in Blog by Richard T . Stuebi So far , the summer of 2012 has been a scorcher for most of the U.S . following hot on the heels of a much warmer than usual winter . Last week , as reported by the Washington Post the  National Climatic Data Center released its State of the Climate report for June in which NCDC noted that not only were the last 12 months of U.S . temperatures the hottest in recorded history , the last 13 months in a row were all well above average . The NCDC then calculated

  • The New, Old World of U.S. Oil Policy

    Updated: 2012-07-13 23:27:23
    Yesterday, the New America Foundation hosted a televised summit to discuss the enormous changes taking place in U.S. oil production...

  • 7 Cent Solar Power for my House

    Updated: 2012-07-12 09:21:01
    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 David Anthony’s Last Question Can We Power the US Solely off of Solar Hot Enough For You 7 Cent Solar Power for my House On July 12, 2012, in Blog by Neal Dikeman by Neal Dikeman The other night I answered an ad on Craigslist . Not surprising , since buying and selling things on craigslist is kind of my hobby . But this one was for solar panels . 180 Wp panels from a wholesaler . Offering for 190 ea if I bought one , or 180 if I bought 20 or more , and 170 if I bought 100. Not name brand , but 17 efficient monocrystalline 180 Wp 25 year warranty . product

  • Guest Post: Energy Reform in Mexico

    Updated: 2012-07-12 08:49:10
    Mexico’s recent elections made headlines around the world. In this guest post, my colleague Shannon O’Neil examines Mexico’s President-elect Enrique...

  • Enough Oil to Fry the Planet? — R-Squared Energy TV Ep. 25

    Updated: 2012-07-12 01:43:58
    In this week’s episode of R-Squared Energy TV, I discuss the recently released paper by former Eni executive Leonardo Maugeri — in which he suggests global oil supplies will increase by 17 million barrels per day by the end of the decade — as well as George Monbiot’s highly publicized reaction to the report. Readers who have specific questions can send them to ask [at] consumerenergyreport [dot] com or leave the question after this post (at the original source). Consider subscribing to our YouTube channel where you’ll be able to view past and future videos. Link to Original Article: Enough Oil to Fry the Planet? — R-Squared Energy TV Ep. 25 By Robert Rapier

  • David Anthony’s Last Question – Can We Power the US Solely off of Solar?

    Updated: 2012-07-10 08:19:36
    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 Depoliticizing CleanTech 7 Cent Solar Power for my House David Anthony’s Last Question Can We Power the US Solely off of Solar On July 10, 2012, in Blog by Neal Dikeman By Tao Zheng , with  David Anthony , an active cleantech venture capitalist , who passed away in April 2012. The sun is the champion of all energy sources , in terms of capacity and environmental impact . The sun provides earth with 120,000 terawatt TW energy , compared to technical potential energy capacity of single digit TWs from other renewable sources , such as wind , geothermal ,

  • Depoliticizing CleanTech

    Updated: 2012-07-09 20:09:39
    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 An Illuminating Article Depoliticizing CleanTech On July 9, 2012, in Blog by Richard T . Stuebi It really wasn’t that long ago that the environment was an issue with about equal bipartisan support in the United . States Americans under the age of 30 might not even realize that the Republican party used to actually have very solid environmental credentials . Theodore Roosevelt launched the National Park System Richard Nixon spearheaded the creation of the U.S . Environmental Protection Agency in 1970 amid a flurry of environmentally protective action , and

  • Are Natural Gas Liquids as Good as Oil?

    Updated: 2012-07-09 17:32:23
    Technical details sometimes turn out to be just that – details. Sometimes, though, they turn out to be much more....

  • The State Dept.’s Pascual on Iran Sanctions

    Updated: 2012-07-06 18:28:22
    Energy Compass, an industry news source, published a wide-ranging interview today with Carlos Pascual, the State Department’s Special Envoy and...

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