Energy and Capital Archives

Coal Company Cuts Jobs

Written by Brianna Panzica
Posted September 23, 2012

Competition with natural gas for power generation has hurt coal miners, and Alpha Natural Resources (NYSE: ANR) is cutting 1,200 jobs...

Total Focuses on Oil Exploration

Written by Brianna Panzica
Posted September 23, 2012

Because of the low prices, Total (NYSE: TOT) has been losing money on some U.S. shale operations, but Africa oil offers new opportunity...

T. Boone Pickens Believes in Natural Gas Vehicles

Written by Brian Hicks
Posted September 23, 2012

Even if Honda's (NYSE: HMC) Civic Natural Gas is currently the only CNG vehicle available to consumers, T. Boone Pickens believes this will change...

Exxon (NYSE: XOM) Buys Bakken Stake

Written by Brian Hicks
Posted September 23, 2012

Exxon Mobil (NYSE: XOM) aims to increase slowing oil and gas production, and its Bakken purchase will help it achieve this...

SunPower Corp. (NASDAQ: SPWR) Installs 1.3-megawatt System

Written by Brian Hicks
Posted September 23, 2012

SunPower Corp.'s (NASDAQ: SPWR) system will provide all of the energy necessary for the new Exploratorium facility in San Francisco...

Renewable Power is Coming Back

Written by Brianna Panzica
Posted September 22, 2012

This industry isn't going to quietly lay down and die...

The Great Bakken Buyout Continues

Written by Keith Kohl
Posted September 20, 2012

Editor Keith Kohl takes a look at why ExxonMobil's latest billion-dollar Bakken deal is lining investors' pockets with cold, hard cash.

Italian Company Strikes Oil in West Africa

Written by Brian Hicks
Posted September 20, 2012

Eni SpA (NYSE: E) made the first find of oil in Ghana's Offshore Cape Three Points Block...

San Francisco Votes for 100% Renewable Program

Written by Brian Hicks
Posted September 20, 2012

Following in Texas' footsteps, a program in San Francisco will offer residents to go 100% renewable...

Bloom Energy Continues to Add New Customers

Written by Brianna Panzica
Posted September 20, 2012

Bloom Energy still hasn't announced an IPO, but that doesn't mean its success has slowed...

Nations Collaborate to Develop Nuclear Reactors

Written by Brian Hicks
Posted September 20, 2012

Nations in Eastern Europe and the Middle East eye nuclear power for domestic energy...

Shell's Arctic Oil Disaster

Written by Jeff Siegel
Posted September 19, 2012

Arctic Oil: economically unviable - or the future of oil production?