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CERAWeek panel: Developing nations key to future A shifting center of gravity from the developed to the developing world will redefine the energy landscape over the next two decades...

How food and water are driving a 21st-century African land grab We turned off the main road to Awassa, talked our way past security guards and drove a mile across empty land before we found what will soon be Ethiopia's largest...

Iran’s Ace (or Deuce): Its Oil Reserves Diplomacy and energy are never far apart in the Persian Gulf. So, as American officials seek new international sanctions against Iran this week, it’s probably wise for them to remember...

CERAWEEK - Stable oil prices shouldn't breed complacency HOUSTON (Reuters) - Oil company executives should not get too complacent about how oil prices settled in the $70-$80 a barrel range over the last several months as...

Embargo Our Way To Freedom? A quartet of Yale-affiliated economic types have published a modest proposal for U.S. energy policy that would eliminate the specter of oil shortages in 10 short years. Just phase in an embargo...

Somali pirates seize Saudi tanker: official NAIROBI (AFP) – Somali pirates have captured a small Saudi tanker and its crew of 14 in the Gulf of Aden, a Kenyan maritime official said Wednesday...

Jeff Rubin: We’re all PIGS now The fact of the matter is, wherever you go in the OECD, we’re all PIGS now. That’s because we mistook an energy shock for a financial crisis and bailed out everyone under the sun. But...

Russia February Output Nears Post-Soviet Record on TNK-BP Gains (Bloomberg) -- Russia crude production neared a post-Soviet record in February as TNK-BP, the venture owned by BP Plc and a group of billionaires, raised output...

Niall Ferguson - Complexity and Collapse: Empires on the Edge of Chaos What if history is not cyclical and slow moving but arrhythmic -- at times almost stationary, but also capable of accelerating suddenly, like a sports...

North Sea oil 'viable for 30 more years' THE North Sea has a viable future for the next 30 years, or beyond, provided oil heads above $200 a barrel, an industry expert has forecast...

Nuclear Reactors, Dams at Risk Due to Global Warming As climate change throws Earth's water cycle off-kilter, the world's energy infrastructure may end up in hot water, experts say...

Oil era not to end in coming decades - Shafranik LONDON, February 26 (Itar-Tass) --The oil era will not end in the coming decades, Yuri Shafranik, President of the Council of the Russian Union of Oil and Gas Producers, has...

Oil shortage spills into water Looming oil and water shortages are interconnected and the world is only just waking up to the fact, says a leading proponent of the “peak oil” hypothesis...

Saudi Arabia to export solar power soon, US says Riyadh: US Energy Secretary Steven Chu expects that Saudi Arabia will emerge as a major exporter of solar energy and this could reach the current level of the kingdom's oil...

U.S. driving decline is in reverse The historic drop in driving that began in 2007 and the dramatic decline in gridlock that accompanied it have ended, according to a report today by a firm that tracks congestion in the...