California: Large energy buyers find market dry
Shaken energy managers throughout Silicon Valley are finding cheap, long-term electricity deals a thing of the past as they go about trying to replace expiring energy contracts.
Fossil Fuels
Oil prices ease as Opec opens tap
Oil prices eased further below $40 a barrel yesterday as an Opec deal to pump more crude outweighed underlying fears of political instability in top producer Saudi Arabia.
Blast hits Russian oil depot
A bomb blast has ripped through an oil storage depot in the town of Neftekumsk in Russia’s Stavropol region.
Present oil trouble not without a past
Carter was serious about energy alternatives and paid a significant price — and wise politicians have avoided the problem ever since.
OPEC Raises Quota; Not Much More Oil May Flow
The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting
Countries agreed on Thursday to increase its production quotas by two million barrels a day, or 8.5 percent, effective July 1. Analysts said the problem with OPEC’s move was that it would not add
any new oil to the market.
Bush and the Axis of Oil
The U.S. animosity toward the Islamic Republic of Iran became evident again when a top U.S. diplomat underlined Tuesday Washington’s opposition to a French-backed plan which, if realized, would see a pipeline built from Kazakhstan to Iran to export the massive oil reserves underneath the Caspian Sea.
Russia: Oil production to be flat in 2005
Russia’s oil production will probably stay flat or even drop in 2005, a top Russian energy official said Friday.
Iraq receives $800m to boost crude production
Iraq’s new Oil Minister Thamer Ghadban welcomed yesterday the injection of $800 million from the US-led coalition to achieve his main goal of hiking production.
US navy ‘plans W Africa exercise’
A US defence official says the US navy is planning an unusual task force deployment off the West African coast.
After the Oil Runs Out : Oil Production might soon peak. Then what?
It now appears that world oil production, about 80 million barrels a day, will soon peak. In fact, conventional oil production has already peaked and is declining.
China’s demand stokes coal prices
THERMAL coal spot prices, which smashed records earlier this year, are expected to remain high as Chinese demand increases.
Syria welcomes U.S. oil deals despite sanctions
Syria continues to sell oil to U.S. companies and encourage U.S. investment in its energy sector, despite Washington’s unilateral sanctions, Oil Minister Ibrahim Haddad told Reuters.