Oil prices slipped just under 1 per cent on Monday as the market grew less optimistic about a quick resolution of the US – China trade war. Anadarko photo. Oil prices underpinned by OPEC supply [Read more]
The cause and source of a Missouri pipeline leak that forced the closure of a section of the Keystone pipeline last Wednesday remains unknown. The TransCanada pipeline remains closed in the area of the leak [Read more]
According to the Energy Information Administration, U.S. electric power sector emissions of sulphur dioxide (SO2), nitrogen oxides (NOx), and carbon dioxide (CO2) will remain mostly flat through 2050, assuming no changes to current laws and [Read more]
Hedge funds and other money managers increased their net long position in Brent crude futures and options for the eighth time in the last nine weeks but by just 1 million barrels. Anadarko photo. Hedge [Read more]
Refined coal generated more than 235 million megawatthours (MWh) of U.S. electricity in 2017, or 20 per cent of net coal generation, an increase of 2 per cent from 2016. iStock photo. Refined coal processed to cut emissions when [Read more]
Efficiency is a key focus area for the IEA, which conducts a range of activities on energy efficiency including in-depth analysis, sharing best practices with governments around the world. Meeting long-term climate, air pollution goals [Read more]
IEA Executive Director Dr Fatih Birol (left) with outgoing Biofuture Platform interim Facilitator Ambassador José Antônio Marcondes de Carvalho, Undersecretary General for the Environment, Energy and Science and Technology, at COP24. IEA photo. 20 countries [Read more]
Financial market movements, business cycles, oil cycles and even the rise and fall of companies, corporate leaders and politicians – none of them can be properly explained and predicted by the traditional narrative model. Anadarko [Read more]
EIA’s Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory for October 2018 reports that most of the 216 solar PV facilities that will come online by the end of 2020 will have capacities of five megawatts or less. [Read more]
The ramp up of new destination-flexible, hub-priced LNG supplies coming out of the United States is providing a catalyst for change in the global gas market. Equinor photo by Harald Pettersen. We are beginning to [Read more]
Battery storage is attractive to power generators as it leads to higher overall utilization of power system assets. This translates into a lower risk of overcapacity and higher average revenues. Shutterstock photo. Battery storage systems [Read more]
Western Canada, especially the two provinces in the middle, has become a pressure cooker of intense emotions looking for an outlet. Western Canada a more dominant player than ever By Angus Reid, Chairman I’m a [Read more]
Policy makers and analysts may be justified in saying they are unusually uncertain, with the economy delicately poised between moderation and recession, and hyper-sensitive to even small shocks that could nudge it towards either eventuality. [Read more]
According to the US Energy Information Administration, the mix of fuels in US electricity generation has changed in response to differences in the relative costs of electricity-generating technologies and their fuels. Natural gas passed coal in [Read more]
Last August, production of condensate and pentanes plus in western Canada reached an all-time high of 414 thousand barrels per day (Mb/d); 35 per cent higher than August of the previous year. Nexen photo. Most [Read more]
The outcome of US – China trade talks will have a decisive influence on the oil consumption outlook for the rest of the year since the threat of tariffs and associated uncertainty are proving the [Read more]
Calgary-based Pieridae Energy announced the Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Benefits Agreement it entered into with the Assembly of Nova Scotia Mi’kmaq Chiefs has been ratified. Goldboro LNG will produce LNG for sale to Europe and other [Read more]
This article by the Pembina Institute addresses how Canada achieves decarbonization in its energy systems, secure a healthy environment and keep up with a growing global low-carbon economy. Global decarbonization by 2050 will help keep [Read more]
The response to new IMO regulations will likely involve changes to ships, marine fuels, refining, and some infrastructure in the next six to eight years. Shutterstock photo. New IMO regulations begin in January 2020 and [Read more]
Despite cleaner gasoline, carpooling, public transportation and electric vehicles, urban sprawl in California, and especially Los Angeles, has resulted in rising tailpipe pollution in the Sunshine State. KTLA photo. Tailpipe pollution will not lessen unless [Read more]
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