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- Week in Oil & Gas: Discovery Hot Spots, Nat Gas' $80M Advocacy Campaign and One Big LNG Project
- It wouldn't be a worthwhile week in the oil and gas industry without a few discoveries. And my, there were some goodies. The hot spots this week were in the ultra deep waters offshore Brazil, Sierra Leone, Venezuela and Uganda. And Spanish energy company Repsol YPF found...
- Blog posts 2009-09-18
- Week in Oil & Gas: G20 Axes Subsidies, Obama-Hu Climate Rhetoric, and Chevron Sues
- The week ended with a muffled bang as the Group of 20 nations agreed to phase out government subsidies for fossil fuels. Ending fossil fuel subsidies would have an impact -- positive or negative, depending on whose talking.  But the agreement is viewed largely symbolic since G20 leaders did...
- Blog posts 2009-09-27
- Week in Oil & Gas: Climate Bill's Small GOP Blessing and the Race For Energy Assets
- Earnings season is ramping up again with companies like Halliburton and General Electric already pulling back the curtain on their third quarter results. But before we dive into the numbers over here at BNET Energy -- a word or two about some developments last week shaping the fundamentals of the energy...
- Blog posts 2009-10-19
- Another Climate Prank: Sen. Arlen Specter Chased by Yes Men in Survivaball Suits
- The Yes Men, the environmental and corporate ethics activist group responsible for this week's fake press conference prank against the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, is at it again. This time they chase Sen. Arlen Specter in giant Survivaball suits and create a little havoc on Capitol Hill in Washington D.C. ...
- Blog posts 2009-10-21
- Week in Oil & Gas: Foreign Oil Sands Grab and Climate Shenanigans
- Korea National Oil Corp.'s $3.9 billion acquisition of Harvest Energy sent a message last week to the industry: the Canadian oil sands are back. High operating costs and low crude prices turned the region into an investment desert for months. That dim view is brightening, however, as...
- Blog posts 2009-10-26
- Week in Oil & Gas: Climate Bill Hurdles and Refining Blues
- A key Senate panel -- along with environmentalists, oil and gas industry folk and government energy officials -- squared off last week in a round of hearings aimed at hashing out the details of a climate bill. The initial hearings, as the WSJ notes, took on a familiar political...
- Blog posts 2009-11-02
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- Week in Oil & Gas: Boxer-Kerry Bill, EPA Emissions Rules, and China's Oil Grab Efforts
- Greenhouse gas emissions dominated headlines throughout the week with the introduction of legislation that seeks to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and another government agency jumping into propose its own rules for industrial facilities. The Senate -- via co-sponsors Barbara Boxer, D- Calif., and John Kerry, D-Mass. -- introduced its...
- Blog posts 2009-10-04
- Is Obama Out of Bounds on Climate Change?
- Did President Obama exceed his authority by announcing a fuel economy goalâ€"35.5 miles per gallon fleet averageâ€"for automakers in 2016? The goal (which works out to 30 mpg for trucks, 39 for cars) is part of a sweeping and unprecedented rulemaking announced earlier this week that combines Corporate Average Fuel...
- Blog posts 2009-05-22
- Week in Oil & Gas: Peak Oil, a Climate-Bill Interlude and Devon's Big Sale
- Climate-change legislation took a backseat to the congressional debate over a health care bill last week. Meaning, chances of passing legisation aimed at reducing greenhouse gas emissions through a cap-and-trade system this year have disappeared. But is it all that bad? Or unexpected?  Senate Democratic leaders said last week wrangling...
- Blog posts 2009-11-23
- Week in Oil & Gas: Punting in Copenhagen and Gulf of Mexico Leases -- Abridged
- The odds Congress would be able to pass climate-change legislation this year dimmed by the minute last week, as the political wrangling moved to the Senate Finance Committee and the debate focused once again on jobs and the economy. The bill's molasses-like progress through the Senate has rippled through the...
- Blog posts 2009-11-16
- Exelon Ditches U.S. Chamber Over Climate Policy, Who Will Leave the "Voice of Business" Next?
- The U.S. Chamber of Commerce's stance on climate-change legislation continues to alienate its member base. This time it's Exelon, the third utility to desert the U.S. Chamber in a week. It's not quite a exodus. But momentum is building against the powerful lobbying group -- described as...
- Blog posts 2009-09-28
- Rhetoric Roundup: Obama Calls For All Nations to Fight Climate Change, China's Hu Defines Responsibility
- President Obama's speech at the United Nations summit on climate change spent considerable time on the concept of responsibility. Namely, that all countries -- rich and poor, developed and emerging -- are responsible and must share the burden of climate change. It's an interesting shift by a president,...
- Blog posts 2009-09-22
- Climate Change - A challenge for oil and gas companies; Renewable energy is gaining key importance in their market strategies.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-26 April 2007-FROST & SULLIVAN: Climate Change - A challenge for oil and gas companies; Renewable energy is gaining key importance in their market strategiesC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:26042007 London - Oil and gas companies are one of the major emitters,...
- Research articles 2007-04-26
- Energy Roundup: Green Mobile Technology, Antarctica's Carbon-Free Base, and More
- Green technology star of cell phone industry show-- Solar panel cell phones, eco-friendly packaging and energy efficient chargers will be among the latest green technology applications featured this week at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona, Spain. A number of products have been unveiled at the industry show, which kicked off...
- Blog posts 2009-02-16
- Tipping Point? Republican (Murkowski) Hints at Support for Climate Change Bill
- It would be a stretch to call it an endorsement. It's more like a hint at support -- the tiniest of wavers in what has been a rigid stance by Republican senators on climate change legislation. Funny, this hint of support isn't for the actual climate change bill...
- Blog posts 2009-10-14
- Energy Roundup: Sahara Solar Plan, U.S-China Climate Talks, Nabucco Gas Pipe Accord Signed, and More
- Backers of Sahara solar power plant project sign initiative -- A dozen major companies including Siemens, German insurer Munich Re and utilities RWE and Eon signed a renewable energy initiative Monday aimed at developing electricity via solar power plants and wind farms in the Sahara desert. The Desertec Industrial Initiative is the...
- Blog posts 2009-07-13
- Betting Against Climate Change Legislation and the Most Important Week Ever
- While global investors -- and their $14 trillion -- pen their support for climate change legislation, there are still plenty of folks out there betting against the bill. American Petroleum Institute President Jack Gerard is one of those ready to toss his chips into the pot. Valero...
- Blog posts 2009-09-17
- Barack Obama will make or break deal on climate change
- In a few weeks some 20,000 United Nations bureaucrats, representatives of non-governmental organisations NGOs, world leaders and accompanying experts from 192 nations will descend on Copenhagen for the 15th Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. They aim to devise a substitute for the...
- News items 2009-11-16
- Climate Change - A Challenge for oil and gas Companies.
- LONDON, April 26 /PRNewswire/ -- - Renewable Energy is Gaining Key Importance in Their Market Strategies Oil and gas companies are one of the major emitters, if not the major emitter, of carbon in the world today. With climate change now the...
- Research articles 2007-04-26
- Algae-coated buildings: a fix for climate change?
- The future of green technology is algae growing in city buildings, artificial trees, and a lot of white roofs, according to the U.K. Institution of Mechanical Engineers.London, if it gets a algae-growing make-over.(Credit: Institution of Mechanical Engineers)The group on Thursday released a report that recommends governments fund research on geoengineering,...
- News items 2009-08-28
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