China has made its largest oil find in more than three decades, an offshore field with proven reserves of nearly 3 billion barrels, which should provide temporary relief from rising consumption and ease fears of energy insecurity. The discovery in...
In the end it was not BP’s safety record or its leaking pipes in Alaska that was the final undoing for BP’s chief executive, Lord Browne, but it was his lying in court documents to try and protect his private...
Concerned about the planet? Thinking of running your car on biofuel? Well think again.. Within 15 years 98% of the rainforests of Indonesia and Malaysia will be gone, as they are torn down in the rush to boost palm oil...
A leading union leader from Britain’s offshore industry has called on all British oil companies to pull out of the volatile Niger Delta region until safety can be guaranteed. The call by Graham Tran, a regional officer of Amicus, one...
New research undertaken in the UK has found that few people are making significant changes to their lifestyle to counter climate change despite a widespread acceptance of its dangers. The survey found that while 80 per cent of the public...
China may have sat out the Iraq war, but that does not stop it eyeing up the spoils of war. Desperate to find it new sources of oil to fuel its growing economy, it could be the first country to...
What a difference a few years makes. Last time he was on Capital Hill, Al Gore had to formally swear in George Bush who had just beaten him in the battle for the White House. Yesterday Gore returned to talk...
The long-awaited report by the US Chemical Safety Board concluded that “organizational and safety deficiencies at all levels of the BP Corporation” caused the fire at the company’s Texas refinery in 2005. The 335-page report calls on the U.S. Occupational...
On March 5, the New York Times published a front-page story called “Oil Innovations Pump New Life Into Old Wells.” Getting new oil from “played out” wells was the thrust of the piece; as the price of oil rises, it...
The “Great Global Warming Swindle” that showed on Channel Four in the UK last week and tried to argue that carbon dioxide emissions are not to blame for global warming, is it turns out, just a swindle. One of the...
