Nuclear accord creates potential for additional crude oil production from Iran

August 13, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, On July 14, the P5+1 (the five permanent members of the United Nations Security Council and Germany) and Iran announced an agreement that could result in relief from United States and European Union nuclear-related sanctions (which include some oil-related sanctions). If the agreement is implemented and sanctions […]

Japan restarts first nuclear reactor under new safety rules

August 12, 2015 Source: Kyushu Electric Power Co. On August 11, Kyushu Electric Power Company’s 846 megawatt (MW) Sendai Nuclear Power Station Unit 1 became the first reactor to restart after nearly two years with no generation from nuclear power plants in Japan. Following the disaster at Fukushima in 2011, Japan began a temporary shutdown […]

Africa: Why the Fuel Subsidies Pump Should Be Switched Off

analysis By Max Bankole Jarrett Despite the climate challenge, we see that billions of dollars are still spent subsidising fuel consumption within Africa and providing exploration subsidies to international fossil fuel companies. In a “previous life”, I spent over a decade in international broadcasting interviewing politicians daily. One thing never ceased to amaze me during […]

Africa: Why the Fuel Subsidies Pump Should Be Switched Off

analysis By Max Bankole Jarrett Despite the climate challenge, we see that billions of dollars are still spent subsidising fuel consumption within Africa and providing exploration subsidies to international fossil fuel companies. In a “previous life”, I spent over a decade in international broadcasting interviewing politicians daily. One thing never ceased to amaze me during […]

West Coast wind patterns lead to below-normal wind generation capacity factors

August 11, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Forms EIA-860 and EIA-923Note: Calculations are based on the output of wind plants in operation before 2010. , were consistently below the previous five-year average during the first five months of 2015, according to the latest data available. Capacity factors for wind turbines are largely determined by […]

South Africa: Power Shortage Causes Gautrain Delays

By Genevieve Quintal, News24 The Gautrain service between Midrand and Hatfield on Monday evening was experiencing delays due to a short in one of the two lines, a spokesperson for the high-speed link said. “There was a foreign object which fell onto the catenary (overhead line) which caused a short and actually cut the electricity […]

Uganda: Mining Royalty Defaulters Named

By Flavia Nalubega The Ministry of Energy and Mineral Development has published a list of mineral license holders who have not paid fees for mineral exploration, development and production. The list indicates that fees for 174 exploration, location, retention and mining licenses have not been paid amounting to eight hundred and fifty million shillings (USD257,000). […]

Waterjetting 35e – A low cost version of the soil sucker

Posting will run just a little slow for a few weeks, as I run-through and catalogue the some 200 hours of video that I have amassed over the decades showing our waterjet research. There are a number of different review reports that I will insert over the next few weeks, as I find the good […]

Rail helps make Midwest a net shipper of crude oil

August 10, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Note: Data for 2015 are averaged through May. PADD is Petroleum Administration for Defense District. Shipments of crude oil out of the Midwest region (Petroleum Administration for Defense District 2) to other U.S. regions have steadily increased as a result of pipeline reversals and rail transport. Rail […]

Somalia: Oil Firms in Somalia Probed Over Graft Claims

By Kennedy Senelwa Britain’s Serious Fraud Office (SFO) has launched investigations into oil firms operating in Somalia over corruption allegations. The SFO is investigating Soma Oil & Gas Holdings Ltd, Soma Oil & Gas Exploration Ltd, and Soma Management Ltd over payment of about $ 600,000 to the Somalia Ministry of Petroleum and Mineral Resources […]

Monthly power sector carbon dioxide emissions reach 27-year low in April

August 5, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Note: Data exclude emissions from biomass energy consumption. The electric power sector emitted 128 million metric tons of carbon dioxide (MMmt CO2) in April 2015, the lowest for any month since April 1988, according to the most recent estimates in EIA’s . In any year, April is […]

South Africa: A Carbon Tax for South Africa – Why a Pragmatic Approach Makes Sense

analysis By Saliem Fakir, Stellenbosch University The furore over the carbon tax in South Africa that is playing itself out both in public and behind closed doors is leading to an . General responses to the carbon tax have tended to be overly dramatic. For example, major emitters and users of fossil fuels say it […]

U.S. refineries are running at record-high levels

August 7, 2015 Source: U.S. Energy Information Administration, Weekly Petroleum Status Report Gross inputs to U.S. refineries exceeded 17 million barrels per day (b/d) in each of the past four weeks, a level not previously reached since EIA began publishing weekly data in 1990. The rolling four-week average of U.S. gross refinery inputs has been […]

Nigeria: Oiling the Wheels of Nigeria’s Anti-Corruption Drive?

The new head of Nigeria’s state oil firm has fired eight senior managers. His success or failure in turning around the wasteful oil sector could be a test of the resilience of President Buhari’s anti-corruption drive. It seems that Emmanuel Ibe Kachikwu, a former executive of Exxon Mobil and now head of the Nigerian National […]

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