EIA’s new Drilling Productivity Report (DPR) takes a fresh look at oil and natural gas production, starting with an assessment of how and where drilling for hydrocarbons is taking place. The first […]

Stories are abounding in the media on electric utilities being nervous and down right reactionary to adding solar (and wind) on the electric grid. On October 15th, The Huffington Post’s story on […]

The U.S. Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC) Office of Energy Projects reports new natural gas dominated the first three quarters of the year with 5.85 […] via SolarIndustryMag.com http://www.solarindustrymag.com/e107_plugins/content/content.php?content.13358

China is still pressing ahead with its shale gas ambitions though numerous hurdles continue to hinder those goals. Shale gas is supposed to boost the nation’s natural gas supply which is in […]

From Superstorm Sandy, to Lloyd’s recent report on the potential for major system damage due to geomagnetic storms, to cyber-attacks on utilities and the grid (such as the one that hit San Jose earlier this year), […]

Kenya will start pumping its first commercial oil next year and begin exporting in 2016, but this is just the opening salvo: new discoveries in recent months and fast-track new well development […]

Machine drives, which are primarily electric motors, pumps, and fans, account for about half of the manufacturing sector’s delivered electricity use and 8% of the sector’s total fuel consumption. Their wide use […]

From a climate perspective, the shale gas revolution is essentially irrelevant according to multiple energy-economy models. Fracking is a massive diversion of resources and money that could have been better used deploying […]

As the US addresses possible debt default and government shutdown, the underlying reason for the predicament is generally not clear. The story in the press has been conflicts between the Democrats and […]