Nigeria, which has been forced to shut in more than half of its oil output following rebel attacks and a workers' strike, could lose its position as Africa's top oil exporter to Angola. The cumulative oil production outage for Africa's...
Iraq's crude oil shipments to the United States have fallen to the second lowest monthly level in almost four years, the U.S. Energy Department has confirmed. Iraq exported 341,000 barrels of crude oil a day that month to the U.S....
Alexander Lukashenko, the Belarusian President, has criticized Russia over it recent gas price increases, calling them “shameless.” In retaliation, he is threatening to charge Moscow for transiting oil across his country. "If those in Russia, choking on this influx of...
This report finds that the EU’s demand for gas is set to decline significantly in line with climate targets, eliminating the need to expand supply from new fields or infrastructure. In the report the authors model how EU’s gas demand matches future...
Despite increased global interest and investment in Africa, IEA's latest report finds that as many as 530 million people, mainly in rural areas, will still be left without access by 2040 without changes to energy investment.
Brazil is to consider joining OPEC after it has gauged the impact on its oil exports from its newly discovered giant offshore Tupi oil field. Isnard Penha Brasil said that "a membership decision will come after we know what our...
This briefing finds that the transport of tar sands oil through pipelines in the United States is exempt from payments into the Oil Spill Liability Trust Fund, which creates a free ride worth over $375 million to tar sands oil...
We congratulate President Obama for this historic action. As he knows, and as he stated when he rejected Keystone XL, ‘if we’re going to prevent large parts of this Earth from becoming not only inhospitable but uninhabitable in our lifetimes,...
This is an important day in the fight against climate change in Canada. Realizing that Energy East would never would never be allowed if its full climate impact was accounted for, TransCanada has walked away from the project.
A group of environmental and financial organizations representing over 7,600,000 members and supporters announced the launch of the DivestMVP coalition to highlight the financial instability of the fracked gas Mountain Valley Pipeline.
