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Tuesday, March 02, 2010

War. What was it good for?
By OilOnline Managers @ 3/2/2010 :: 50 Views :: 1 Comments ::

It was, and still is, an unassailable dogma throughout the Middle East, among barely beneath-the-surface anti-American European intellectuals, and certainly, the American left: the United States went to war in Iraq in 2003 just for oil . . .

Monday, January 04, 2010

Department of Energy is launches Open Energy Information Platform
By OilOnline @ 1/4/2010 :: 188 Views :: 0 Comments ::

:: Discussion, Policy & Politics

DOE Launches New Website to Bring Energy Technology Information to the Public called the Open Energy Information (OpenEI) platform

Friday, December 04, 2009

Carbon storage just doesn’t hold water
By OilOnline Manager @ 12/4/2009 :: 283 Views :: 0 Comments ::

CCS which stands for carbon capture and storage or sequestration has been the great hope of middle-of-the-road characters, people other than radical ‘greenies’ or their ‘right-wing’ adversaries. . .

Thursday, December 03, 2009

Twitter Please
By OilOnline Manager @ 12/3/2009 :: 260 Views :: 0 Comments ::

Would you kindly look into possibility of posting Professor Economides’ monthly ‘Ebb and flow’ columns in OE on Twitter. Real-time postings will be a great help for fans like me . . .

Thursday, December 03, 2009

Seismic Subtleties
By OilOnline Manager @ 12/3/2009 :: 263 Views :: 0 Comments ::

Andrew McBarnet’s articles in OE are always a monthly landmark in my reading. The latest one (‘Testing times for permanent reservoir seismic monitoring, OE November 2009) does not contradict this evaluation . . .

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Ready for electric cars? Here are a few side issues
3/11/2010 By Internet Oil & Gas Opinions
A few random notes from a good session at CERAWeek on getting the electric grid ready for electric cars: Utilities actually are thinking about a long-time human practice: "keeping up with the Joneses." The formal word for it from the utility perspec... ...

Another Step Toward Offshore Drilling
3/11/2010 By Internet Oil & Gas Opinions
Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell signed two bills yesterday to make his state the "Energy Capital of the East Coast." HB 787 expresses strong support for oil and natural gas exploration and production 50 miles off Virginia's coast. HB 756 provides a formu... ...

In the desperate search for new reserves, East Africa looms large
3/11/2010 By Internet Oil & Gas Opinions
East Africa has become a promising frontier for oil exploration and production. Tiziana Luzzi-Arbouille of IHS Global Insight noted at the Cambridge Energy Research Associates conference in Houston. Both the Atlantic and the Mediterranean coasts of A... ...

Gasoline Prices Track Crude Oil Costs
3/11/2010 By Internet Oil & Gas Opinions
The average U.S. retail price for regular gasoline rose by 4.9 cents to $2.751 per gallon for the week ending March 8, according to the Energy Information Administration (EIA). This average price is higher than one year ago when the average pump pric... ...

Improving the Performance of Solar Thermal Electrical Power
3/11/2010 By Internet Oil & Gas Opinions
The US Department of Energy granted a US$1.37 billion loan guarantee to Brightsource Energy last week which could help clear the way for over 15 gigawatts of solar thermal power projects in California. Brightsource built a pilot plant in Israel to pr... ...

Boeing 777 A Bigger Threat To Airbus’ A350-1000 Than Vice Versa
3/11/2010 By Internet Oil & Gas Opinions
Decision on 777 production rate next month will see Boeing firing first salvo at the biggest money making market for the next three decades or more.... ...

Boeing 737 Production Rate Increase Sustainable
3/11/2010 By Internet Oil & Gas Opinions
Averaging over 300 deliveries a year for the last half decade, better credit availability, growth in passenger traffic for low cost airlines and what you see is a wise move to fill that demand with more 737s.... ...

Qatar Airways Joins List Of Airlines Killing First Class
3/11/2010 By Internet Oil & Gas Opinions
Since the start of 2010, almost a dozen airlines have decided to lop First Class from their business models – now five-star rated Qatar Airways joins the latest bandwagon with more airlines poised to follow suit.... ...

Ibaraki Airport Further Expands Tokyo Connectivity Options
3/11/2010 By Internet Oil & Gas Opinions
As the battle to secure slots at Haneda Airport takes precedent, but the opening of a former air base in Ibaraki Airport gives fringe players like Skymark Airlines a great shot at expanding cheaply.... ...

Leading the Way to a Low-Energy Future
3/10/2010 By Internet Oil & Gas Opinions
This is a guest post by Megan Quinn Bachman. The failure of the Copenhagen climate talks taught us one thing—that hoping for intelligent responses to climate change from the world’s governments is an exercise in futility. It’s just not going to happe... ...

Pressure Increases to Stop the EPA GHG Regulations
3/10/2010 By Internet Oil & Gas Opinions
Two more letters were sent to Capitol Hill late this afternoon, asking Congress to stop the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from moving forward with greenhouse gas regulations. A group of 98 organizations from across the country sent a letter t... ...

Natural Gas: 'An Unexpected Gift'
3/10/2010 By Internet Oil & Gas Opinions
Many of the world's most knowledgeable energy experts are meeting in Houston this week at the 29th annual CERAWeek conference. CERAWeek is sponsored by IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates, Inc. to provide insight on the future of energy. Althoug... ...

Life After Growth--Managing our Way to a Desirable Future
3/10/2010 By Internet Oil & Gas Opinions
This is a guest post by Richard Heinberg. It is a shortened version of a longer post published by the Post Carbon Institute. What if the economy doesn’t recover? In 2008 the U.S. economy tripped down a steep, rocky slope. Employment levels plummeted... ...

Smacked by climate change, should women sue Big Oil?
3/10/2010 By Internet Oil & Gas Opinions
Can the poor village woman in a remote part of India who has to walk longer distances to get her daily load of firewood for cooking blame ExxonMobil or Chevron or Shell for her hard life? Yes she can. going by the class action suit filed by Hurrican... ...

The CERA oil day that wasn't
3/9/2010 By Internet Oil & Gas Opinions
Cambridge Energy Research Associates sets its big Houston-based annual meeting in three parts: Oil Day, Gas Day, and Power Day (which actually goes into a second day). Tuesday was oil day. You never would have known it. ConocoPhillips CEO James Mulva... ...

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