Last week, the IEA held its third annual global conference on energy efficiency in Paris. The event brought together over 2o0 energy professionals from over 60 countries. From left to right: Dr Ajay Mathur (Director General, [Read more]
US crude production has increased significantly during the past ten years, driven mainly by production from tight oil formations using horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. Anadarko photo. US crude production tops Russia’s output in August By Emily [Read more]
TransCanada announced on Wednesday that it will move forward with a $1.5 billion expansion of its NOVA Gas Transmission Ltd., or NGTL system. TransCanada photo. NGTL expansion includes 197 km large diameter pipeline, compression units, [Read more]
Various technology, policy, and social trends over the past decade point to the potential for a global shift towards a lower carbon economy. – NEB The technology case set out in the Canada’s Energy Future [Read more]
US oil output has increased by more than 2 million barrels per day over the past 12 months, an absolute increase that is unparalleled in the history of the US oil industry. Anadarko photo. US [Read more]
Calgary-based Pieridae Energy says it has been granted a permit by the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board to construct the Goldboro LNG facility. Equinor photo. Pieridae now to make financing decision on Goldboro LNG [Read more]
Last week the Canadian government announced there will be a federal carbon pollution pricing system in place in Canada starting next year and will affect provinces that have not already set up their own carbon [Read more]
By 2020, new IMO fuel rules will require the shipping industry to use fuels with a much smaller sulphur content. Shipping companies say that because a derivatives market for the new fuel has not been [Read more]
On average, the amount of Halloween candy that Canadians consume around this time of year, translates to about 57,000 gigajoules in energy terms. This is enough energy to heat 570 homes in Canada for one [Read more]
As US crude exports increase, the race is on to build Gulf Coast terminals, however, some analysts say if all the proposed projects are built, there may not be enough crude for them. Port of [Read more]
One of the highlights of the report is that in the coming decades, Canadian energy use and economic growth will continue to decouple. Economic growth is forecast to increase relatively faster than energy use in [Read more]
The US trade war with China may mean LNG companies planning new facilities could face challenges in financing, contract pricing and pipeline access. Total photo. China put a 10 per cent tariff on US LNG [Read more]
The Rhine River, which runs northwest from Switzerland through Germany, France, and the Netherlands into the North Sea, is a major petroleum product transportation corridor. Getty Images photo. Higher prices for petroleum products imports due to [Read more]
Lower oil prices would curb the projected expansion in output and stimulating faster growth in oil consumption. Modestly lower oil prices would also provide some economic stimulus and form part of the natural cyclical progression, [Read more]
In natural gas markets, the prospects of a natural gas glut, which was commonly heard within the energy industry not that long ago, has vanished following last winter’s tight market, and is being replaced by [Read more]
Angus Reid says Canadian support for Trans Mountain Expansion grew between Feb. and April 2018 as attacks from BC intensified Who in their right mind thinks David Suzuki or Greenpeace would ever be pro-pipeline? Jason [Read more]
Phasing out fossil fuel subsidies would facilitate the cost-effective deployment of the some of the Middle East’s huge renewables potential, whose development has been limited by the availability of subsidized oil and gas for power [Read more]
Last week, hedge funds continued to liquidate former bullish positions in oil and, for the first time in more than a year, clear signs of fresh short-selling emerged. Total photo. Rising supply, economic slowdown drive [Read more]
With only two days left to figure out Halloween costumes, Matt Chester offers his ideas for energy enthusiasts struggling with what to wear on All Hallows’ Eve. Halloween costumes for those in the energy field [Read more]
Increases in electricity generation from non-carbon power sources since 2005 also had an effect on CO2 emissions from power generation. State policies and federal tax incentives that encouraged adoption of renewables have driven this growth. [Read more]
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