Finance

Overturning The Eight Biggest Myths In Renewable Energy Today

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Misconception and myth hang over the entirety of the US energy sector, but with renewable energy equally likely to get bogged down in political wrangling over subsidy levels and climate change, getting to the truth remains a particular challenge.

Accounting firm Ernst & Young is accustomed to crunching data from a wide range of sources and sorting it into manageable categories. The company has taken an increasing thought-leadership profile in energy, and recently released an update to its substantial renewable energy attractiveness indices as part of that practice. Keep reading →

 /  Published March 15, 2012 at 3:00 PM

Deal Highlights Shale Gas Infrastructure Needs

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US natural gas and gas liquids production has increased dramatically in recent years, driven in large part by output from tight geologic formations in Texas. In order to bring these resources to the marketplace, there is a constant need to build more gathering systems and pipelines.

Alleviating infrastructural bottlenecks is an ongoing challenge for the industry, something that Howard Energy aims to address by acquiring Meritage Midstream Services’ South Texas natural gas gathering assets. Keep reading →

 /  Published March 15, 2012 at 1:30 PM

FERC approves stipulation and consent agreement with Constellation Energy Commodities Group http://ow.ly/1hVJiV

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FERC approves stipulation and consent agreement with Constellation Energy Commodities Group FERC

 /  Published March 12, 2012 at 9:40 AM

Highlighting The Spread Of Sustainable Investing On Wall Street

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Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on February 17, 2012 in New York City. The Dow Jones industrial average rose 46 points to close at its highest level since May 2008.

Growing awareness of the ways data, technology and the power of investors can transform industries has lent new purpose to the Wall Street green movement and broadened the sector’s appeal to areas the original environmental investors might never have recognized. Keep reading →

 /  Published March 8, 2012 at 11:00 AM

Solar Energy Flower Power Tower

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Like your typical garden flower, this tulip captures heat from the sun for energy. But unlike most flowers, this one is 115 feet tall and uses a combination of gas and mirrored heliostats to spin a gas turbine that creates electricity.

AORA‘s concentrated solar power (CSP) systems – designed in southern Israel where sunlight is abundant and water is scarce – uses pressurized air, rather than water, to spin a conventional gas turbine. If the air momentarily cools, from cloud cover for example, the tower automatically reroutes the air through a combustion chamber that can use anything from biogas and methane to natural gas and diesel to heat the air and spin the turbine. Keep reading →

 /  Published March 5, 2012 at 11:00 AM

Advanced Biofuels Startups Grow With Green Promise

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Developers of new advanced biofuels technologies are evaluating the entire energy production, service and delivery chains for commercial opportunities.

OriginOil’s ambitions are much larger than its small IPO from last year’s registration suggests, and the company claims it has pioneered technology that will revolutionize the service industry for advanced biofuels as Halliburton and Schlumberger had done in the petroleum and petrochemical industries. Keep reading →

 /  Published February 29, 2012 at 9:00 AM

Chesapeake Energy Steps Up Plans To Boost Liquid Products Output

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Chesapeake Energy has stepped up plans to produce more oil and natural gas liquids while cutting dry-gas output against the background of decade-low natural gas prices.

The second-largest U.S. natural gas producer said in a presentation on its fourth-quarter and full-year 2011 earnings that some 60% of its revenue would come from oil and NGLs in 2012, up from roughly 50% anticipated by the company just a month earlier. Keep reading →

 /  Published February 22, 2012 at 3:15 PM

A Little Liquid Gas And Oil Goes A Long Way For Energy Producers

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An oil depot, or fuel farm, is seen from the air over Carson, California, February 16, 2012.

These are good times to be a diversified oil and gas company. Keep reading →

 /  Published February 17, 2012 at 2:00 PM

Anglo American Goes Full Bore Building Essential Materials Availability

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Mining giant Anglo American has traditionally been treated by energy markets largely as a coal producer, and it remains a key provider of the fossil fuel, but the firm’s position as a supplier of materials like copper used in new energy technology and revamped energy infrastructure, is gaining it new attention from the energy business.

Anglo American CEO Cynthia Carroll and Financial Director Rene Midori discuss Anglo American’s year-end results in this video, and while both linger over high-profile dealmaking in the diamond business in 2011, the importance of new expansions in raw materials mining is repeatedly underlined as the two discuss ways the company has invested throughout a multi-year commodity cycle that has boosted its results. Keep reading →

 /  Published February 17, 2012 at 11:00 AM

Unconventional Oil And Gas Gets Its Own ETF

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A trader at the New York Stock Exchange.

Getting investors into the shale revolution in the US energy sector has been a difficult task at a time when natural gas prices themselves are low and individual firms are shifting their focus. Keep reading →

 /  Published February 15, 2012 at 4:28 PM
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