In four years’ time, McLaren expects half of its fleet will be hybrid, but the sports and luxury car maker says it has no plans to build an all-electric vehicle, despite industry trends. McLaren photo. [Read more]
Washington state Governor Jay Inslee (left), BC Premier John Horgan (centre) and Matt Rodriquez, California Secretary for Environmental Protection (right) discussed climate change, environmental protection trade and the overdose crisis at the PCC meeting in Vancouver [Read more]
Average capital costs for utility-scale solar PV facilities installed in 2015 were $2.91 per watt for AC capacity and $2.33 per watt in terms of DC capacity A solar photovoltaic (PV) system’s panel capacity is often reported [Read more]
A shipment of Alberta oil sands crude shipped by rail to terminal in Portland Oregon sailed to China last January. Northwest Engineering photo. Nearly all Alberta oil sands crude exports go to the US According [Read more]
TransCanada’s Cameron Access improvements include a new compressor station and an additional 27 miles of pipeline in Southwest Louisiana. TransCanada image. Cameron Access pipeline improvements valued at US$300 million On Wednesday, TransCanada announced the completion [Read more]
The Trump steel tariff would add 25 per cent to the cost of imported steel and 10 per cent to imported aluminum. Trump steel tariff could significantly impact US energy pipeline industry A number of [Read more]
An official with Exxon told Reuters that the global oil giant has plans to expand its Beaumont refinery as well as boost refining capacity at other US Gulf Coast plants. The Examiner photo. Exxon plans [Read more]
Outages from wildfires in Alberta, Canada and militancy in Nigeria slowed the decline in Venezuela’s exports Venezuela’s crude oil production has been on a downward trend for two decades, but it has experienced significant decreases [Read more]
Crude oil and stock markets often move independently because of factors specific to each market For four consecutive days in early Feb., stock market implied volatility surpassed crude oil price volatility for the first time since 2008, [Read more]
Increasing profitability is one of main drivers of growth in many European countries The global photovoltaics (PV) market is gathering speed with 2018 likely to see annual PV deployment pass the 100 gigawatt (GW) mark [Read more]
The Trump administration plans to broadly expand US offshore drilling, but is facing opposition from many coastal states and indifference from oil majors. US Coast Guard photo. Current US offshore drilling rules in place from [Read more]
75% of CO2 capture capacity built in last decade is hydrogen production, gas processing, ethanol fermentation, all high purity sources of CO2 Authors of this commentary are IEA Energy Technology Analysts Simon Bennett and Tristan [Read more]
“We can’t let Alberta get away with blackmailing us into thinking it’s ok for them to over-run our rights as Canadian citizens to do what we want to do in our province,” says John George, [Read more]
Energy IPOs could reach their highest in four years and with pressing financial needs, oilfield services companies will likely lead the recovery. Dome Energy photo. Canadian energy IPOs could include Canbriam Energy, Velvet Energy According [Read more]
After 2030, as oil prices continue to increase, more investment in resources expected to result in increased production Upstream investment in crude oil and liquids production is highly sensitive to crude oil prices, particularly production [Read more]
If Rachel Notley wants to swell ranks of British Columbia pipeline opponents, she should keep borrowing dumb ideas from Jason Kenney Rachel Notley has one job: don’t take 50 per cent support in BC for [Read more]
The recent ‘Bomb Cyclone’ affected more of the United States, boosting US natural gas demand and prices. NASA image. Cold weather led to record demand and storage withdrawals which increased US natural gas prices to [Read more]
Ben van Beurden, Chief Executive of Royal Dutch Shell says his company is considering limiting emissions from its operations as well as emissions from fossil fuel use by its customers. Bloomberg photo. Royal Dutch Shell [Read more]
Saudi Aramco’s CEO Amin Nasser told an audience at CERAWeek in Houston on Tuesday that to keep pace with expected growth in demand and make up for declining fields, the gas and oil industry needs [Read more]
EIA expects middle east electricity demand to increase 30% by 2028 Nuclear electricity generation capacity in the Middle East is expected to increase from 3.6 gigawatts (GW) in 2018 to 14.1 GW by 2028 because [Read more]
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