The big exporters, meeting in Vienna, saw no reason to make changes that would affect prices, which have held relatively high this year.      via NYT > Environment http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/05/business/energy-environment/opec-to-keep-oil-production-at-current-levels.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

About 40% of the energy delivered to the residential sector is attributed to space heating, and natural gas- and propane-fired furnaces account for almost half of that, making them a large target […]

Bjorn Lomborg thinks Africa just needs more fossil fuels. Luckily, Africans already know what’s best for them. via Grist http://grist.org/climate-energy/let-them-eat-coal-why-cheap-dirty-fuels-arent-a-meal-ticket-for-developing-countries/?utm_source=syndication&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=feed

After two years of research, the company said a plant that would convert natural gas to liquids would have cost more than $20 billion.      via NYT > Environment http://www.nytimes.com/2013/12/06/business/energy-environment/citing-cost-concerns-shell-will-not-build-gulf-coast-plant.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

SolarCity Corp., the second largest U.S. solar company by market value, is offering power-storage systems to commercial customers that will reduce utility bills and provide electricity during blackouts. via Solar Energy News […]

(New York Times) More than two dozen of the nation’s biggest corporations, including the five major oil companies, are planning their future growth on the expectation that the government will force them to pay […]

A new analysis of man-made emissions of the greenhouse gas in the United States showed they were about 1.5 times higher than prevailing estimates.      via NYT > Environment http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/26/us/emissions-of-methane-in-us-exceed-estimates-study-finds.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

The U.S. added 699 megawatts of new capacity to produce electricity in October and 99 percent, or 694 MW, came from renewable sources. The post 99 Percent Of New Electric Capacity Installed […]

There are two primary ways of extracting bitumen from the oil sands. In situ production involves injecting steam into the ground to heat up the bitumen which is then pumped out of […]

Venezuela has extensive heavy oil reserves, and increasingly, no way of treating it. It’s not a feedstock that can just get thrown into any refinery. Platts Venezuelan correspondent Mery Mogollon discusses that […]