Category: ‘ Energy Demand ’

 

Libya: Don’t expect a quick return to full production

Last week, ARC Financial Corporation published its Energy Charts report, with an interesting section about how political unrest and military action in countries often leads to long-term declines in their oil production.  Using ex...

Geopolitical Instability and Meeting Global Energy Demand

A lot of recent oil news has focused on the price increases attributable to instability across the Middle East and North Africa (MENA).  Protests and revolution have occurred in several nations and Libya now appears to be descend...

Here we go again — an oily recession?

Justin Lahart in today's WSJ:  "Rising Oil Prices Raise the Specter of a Double Dip."  Yep.  A year ago, energy-minded folks were wondering whether spring would bring Middle East chaos caused by an Israeli preemptive strike on ...

Artificial oil demand inflation

Great blog today by James Herron in the WSJ on the topic of subsidies and global demand for oil.   http://blogs.wsj.com/source/2011/02/10/oil-demand-growth-vulnerable-to-subsidy-cuts/?KEYWORDS=energy Herron first points out...

Electricity Today, in 2011, and Beyond

With the Financial Times’ excellent Energy Source Blog on break for the Christmas period (one of many, we are not singling them out!), here at EPIC we are doing our best to keep you up to date with the energy stories closing out...

Is Smart Money Looking at Coal?

As the 16th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change wraps up in Cancun, we can’t help but notice that not only does broad agreement with respect to carbon regulation seem to be unli...

A Nuclear Renaissance Finally on the Horizon?

Could it be, as with the production of so many products, that China’s desire for clean energy could lower the cost of nuclear power plants for countries worldwide?  According to Andrew Brandler, Chief Executive of CLP Holdings ...

Good policy; good politics

Today's Energy Daily (www.theenergydaily.com, subscription required) puts an election-year spin on DOE's decision this week (http://www.energy.gov/news/9711.htm) to issue a $350 million conditional loan guarantee "to develop the ...

Greenpeace versus Greenland

Readers of this space read last week about the protests over Cairn Energy's production activities in the Arctic.  Today's WSJ has a nice piece by James Herron (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870420680457546739021846...

Selective environmentalism

Gotta love the blog in this morning's FT by Masa Serdarevic entitled "Oil drilling in the Arctic?  Blame the bankers" ( http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2010/08/25/oil-drilling-in-the-arctic-blame-the-bankers/).  For those who...
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