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Commodity Chart Of The Day: Crude OilSeeking AlphaIn the last few weeks, crude oil has appreciated just better than $6 to lift prices near the upper end of the trading range in which futures have been contained for the last three months. As one can see...
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Chevron Takes Over EOG, Encana Shares in KLNG/PTP:The Media Co-opKLNG/PTP was until very recently owned by a consortium including EOG Resources, Encana Corporation, and majority owner Apache Corporation. The scheme would aim for PTP to connect shale ga...
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ROYAL DUTCH SHELLA : Motiva Reports Compressor Shutdown at Port Arthur ...4-tradersA spokesman for Royal Dutch Shell PLC (RDSA, RDSB, RDSA.LN, RDSB.LN) couldn't immediately be reached for comment. Motiva is a joint venture between Shell and Saudi A...
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Homeless Heir To $300 Million Huguette Clark Fortune Found DeadHuffington Post8. David Koch. Koch is executive vice president at Koch Industries and a powerful Republican donor. Estimated net worth as of August 8, 2012: $35.6 billion (Bloomberg Billion...
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MENAFN.COMChevron has two new gas finds offshore AustraliaOffshore Oil and Gas MagazineSAN RAMON, California – Chevron Corp. (NYSE: CVX) has two new discoveries offshore Australia in the Exmouth Plateau area of Carnarvon basin. The Pinhoe-1 explorati...
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Union Warns Chevron OverLeadership NewspapersThe Nigerian Union of Petroleum and Natural Gas Workers (NUPENG), has warned the management of Chevron not to deploy soldiers to its oil installations as this might cause industrial crisis. The union gave th...
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Expect Chevron To Outperform In 2013Seeking AlphaPart of the reason Chevron is trading at 9 times earnings is because of the cyclical nature of the Company's operations. When the economy is booming, investors are typically willing to pay less for t...
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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 A Dose of Lithium A Crystal Ball for 2013 On December 31, 2012, in Blog by Richard T . Stuebi Happy new year everyone . As we reflect upon the year now past us , it’s also that time of year to look . ahead For the cleantech sector , Dallas Kachan from Kachan . Co recently put his neck on the line with his Predictions for Cleantech in 2013” It’s a good read , well-reasoned . The sound-bite : version Cleantech venture capital may never again reach the heights at least in terms of dollars invested of 2011. As Kachan notes , and I concur , that’s not
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Various studies try to quantitatively relate real U.S. GDP growth, employment growth, and changes in consumer price levels to oil...
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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 Cap and Trade for Traffic A Crystal Ball for 2013 A Dose of Lithium On December 24, 2012, in Blog by Richard T . Stuebi For those who want an overview of the current state of the lithium-ion Li-ion battery sector , the fall 2012 issue of Batteries International is just the . thing It’s not a pretty picture that’s painted . Beyond the well-publicized bankruptcies of A123 and Ener1 the general sentiment espoused is that players in the Li-ion sector face tough days ahead . The technology is not improving rapidly enough , its costs are not coming down fast
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For the past several years, at year end I rank what I felt were the the major energy stories of the year. 2012 lacked a blockbuster energy story like the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010 or the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster of 2011, so I thought I would change things up a bit and just let readers vote.
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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 Cleantech Venture Investing : On the Deathbed or Merely Resting A Dose of Lithium Cap and Trade for Traffic On December 21, 2012, in Blog by Neal Dikeman Great article today on a study suggesting that traffic congestion is created by the marginal driver , and more interesting , from the marginal driver from specific and predictable locations . Maybe 1 of commuters leaving from specific neighborhoods have a big increase on traffic congestion and commute time for everyone . The link to the study is here We dealt with this in the demand response market for
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Ideas matter. Or at least Council on Foreign Relations fellows like to believe that: otherwise, we’d be wasting a lot...
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Policymakers, analysts, and pundits regularly argue over whether countries should care about who they buy their oil from. Economist usually...
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A story on NPR yesterday morning, “The Downsides of Living in an Oil Boomtown,” had an interesting portrait of the...
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In fall 2012, the Nuclear Regulatory Commission approved a license to build a state-of-the-art uranium enrichment facility in Wilmington, North Carolina. This license allows GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy to build its own enrichment facility using classified laser separation technology, which will be the first of its kind in the world. In nature, uranium exists mostly [...]
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Home About Contact Advertise Consumer Energy Report Banking Energy Biodiversivist Choke Points Econbrowser Editors' Corner Fueling Innovation Power Policy R-Squared Energy By Robert Rapier on Dec 18, 2012 with 3 responses Grading My Energy-Related Predictions for 2012 : Tags Barack Obama Brent natural gas WTI Tweet In my list of Top 10 Energy Related Stories of 2011 I made five predictions for 2012. Those predictions : were President Obama will easily win reelection , which means that energy policies will likely continue along the current . trajectory The Keystone Pipeline project will be approved although that decision may still slide into 2013 Natural gas prices will remain low , averaging below 5 MMBTU for the . year Oil prices both West Texas Intermediate and Brent will average above
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: 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 Economics of Cleantech Investing Cap and Trade for Traffic Cleantech Venture Investing : On the Deathbed or Merely Resting On December 17, 2012, in Blog by Richard T . Stuebi Two weeks ago , I sat on a panel of eminent that is , other than myself cleantech venture capitalists at the New England Venture Summit to discuss our sector as we approach the end of 2012. The basic theme being explored was whether we should be optimistic or pessimistic about the current state of affairs for cleantech . investing As I noted in my opening quip : I have friends
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OPEC ministers met in Vienna on Wednesday to discuss the current oil market outlook and make a decision about future...
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In late November 2012, the Department of Energy (DOE) announced its decision to award the Babcock & Wilcox Company to receive government funding in support of commercializing Small Modular Reactors (SMR), a new generation of nuclear power plants. B&W will receive funding that will support accelerated development of its B&W mPower™ SMR technology. Also see: Nuclear industry looks toward smaller [...]
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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 Chicago : Battery Central Cleantech Venture Investing : On the Deathbed or Merely Resting The Economics of Cleantech Investing On December 13, 2012, in Blog by Neal Dikeman I drafted this memo in early 2003 for a venture capitalist friend of mine , well before the bubble in cleantech . In light of the back and forth on the recent Solar City IPO , I thought it was worth revisiting . Some of the points were pretty prescient , calling out many of the challenges cleantech investors and exits have faced , nearly a decade before they faced . them Risk Economics
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A new term has been getting a lot of play in recent weeks. The International Energy Agency (IEA) kicked things...
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Some of you who saw my piece last month for the Globalist, “The Middle East’s Voracious Hunger for Energy,” wondered...
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: 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 Cleantech to Backtrack” in 2013 The Economics of Cleantech Investing Chicago : Battery Central On December 10, 2012, in Blog by Richard T . Stuebi At the end of November , the U.S . Department of Energy announced that it had selected Argonne National Laboratory in suburban Chicago to host the Joint Center for Energy Storage Research JCESR and bestowed upon it a 120 million grant over 5 years , alongside a 35 million commitment for a new 45,000 square foot facility from the State of . Illinois As noted in this article in the Chicago Tribune the goal for
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The surge in shale oil production shows that new technologies can convert formerly uneconomical oil resources into oil reserves, so it isn't out of the realm of possibility that this could also be the case with kerogen.
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BURN: An Energy Journal is the flagship program of The Public Radio Energy Project and winner of the 2012 American Association for Advancement of Science (AAAS) Kavli Science Journalism Award for their documentary special titled Particles: Nuclear Power After Fukushima (54 minutes in 3 segments) that examines the future of nuclear power one year after [...]
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Earlier today, the Department of Energy released a long-awaited (and long-delayed) study on the macroeconomic impacts of liquefied natural gas...
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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 Open Letter , Closed Minds Chicago : Battery Central Cleantech to Backtrack” in 2013 On December 4, 2012, in Blog by Dallas Kachan Our firm , Kachan . Co has just published its latest annual set of predictions for the cleantech sector for the year ahead To our analysis , 2013 is shaping up to be something of a year of backtracking for the cleantech industry , a year that calls into question some of its traditional leading indicators of health , and one that surfaces long term risk to such cleantech stalwarts as solar , wind and electric . vehicles Do we
