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Oil & Gas Trade

Oil Bankruptcies Are Reaching Worrying Levels

Law firm Haynes and Boone recently released its updated Energy Bankruptcy Reports. These reports cover North American oil and gas producers, oilfield services a…

Coal Mine

Angloto Decide This Year on Fate of South African Thermal Coal Assets

Global miner Anglo American expects to decide this year whether to sell its South African thermal coal business, Chief Executive Mark Cutifani told Reuters on M…

New Trump Administration Rule Complicates Efficiency Standards

Energy efficiency standards for facility equipment, such as commercial air conditioners and lighting, is the “top US policy for saving energy in buildings,” s…

Oil & Gas Trade

Guyana Officially Becomes Oil Exporter

The world’s newest oil frontier, Guyana, has officially shipped its very first batch of crude oil on Monday, according to TankerTrackers.com—a major oil-first…

Solar Power Plant

Exploring 2019 Trends In Solar, Energy Storage

To ensure we deliver a compelling, relevant, and actionable conference experience this February, the Intersolar North America team has been watching how the sol…

Shale Gas

A Crude Restructuring: How America's Shale Revolution Changes the Oil Market in the Middle East

In the first week of January 2020, US special forces executed a strike killing the leader of Iran’s foreign paramilitary arm, Qasem Soleimani, and raised the a…

U.S. Presidential Election: Climate Is A Top Priority

Another climate action “first” this year will be the 2020 U.S. Presidential election. Never before has climate change featured as a top priority for American …

Oil & Gas Trade

The Battle For Suriname’s Oil Is About To Begin

The discovery of a significant oil field off the coast of Suriname has grabbed headlines in the past few weeks. With less than a million inhabitants and a GDP p…

Energy storage technology

U.S. Department of Energy Launches Energy Storage Grand Challenge

U.S. Energy Secretary Dan Brouillette announced the launch of the Energy Storage Grand Challenge, a comprehensive program to accelerate the development, commerc…

CCS

US Leads New Wave of Carbon Capture and Storage Deployment

As we ring in the new decade, it has become ever more apparent that the next ten years will be crucial to leaping on decarbonization efforts. Time is not on our…

Coal Stakeholders Urge Lawmakers to Protect Industry

Representatives of the coal industry and the United Mine Workers of America gathered Wednesday afternoon at the state Culture Center on the grounds of the Capit…

Apache Shares Jump 27% on Major Discovery in Suriname with Total

Apache Corp and Total SA said on Tuesday they had made a major oil discovery in a closely watched area off the coast of South America’s Suriname, sending Apach…

Crude

Crude Oil Jumps as Markets Dip on Iran’s Missile Assault Against US

Oil prices jumped to their highest in months on Wednesday after Iran attacked American forces in Iraq in response to a U.S. strike that killed an Iranian genera…

Energy storage technology

America Developing Non-lithium Energy-Storage Technologies

The U.S. is hoping to boost the viability of innovative energy-storage technologies, including green hydrogen, by offering up to $11m in grants to solutions tha…

FuelCell Energy Begins Operations at California Site

American fuel cell solutions company FuelCell Energy has begun operations at its 2.8megawatt fuel cell project in Tulare, California’s waste-water treatment fa…