Energy and Capital Archives

Where You Can Find Gas to Fuel the World for 4,000 More Years

Written by Keith Kohl
Posted October 30, 2006

Unless you’re talking to one of the world’s few oceanic geologists, “methane hydrates” would most likely be an unfamiliar term. Yet these massive deposits of methane gas could turn into the next...

Ethanol might as well be rocket fuel for this stock

Written by Brian Hicks
Posted September 20, 2006

Forget the recent drop in gas prices. Smoke and mirrors don't hide the real picture for that long. Countries and companies worldwide know that a long-term strategy for energy security involves not...

More Than a Lot of Hot Air

Written by Brian Hicks
Posted August 28, 2006

Like most entrepreneurs Roger Davey is a man that sees something that very few other people do. Because of it he takes risks, he works hard, and he pushes his dream down a road with no sure...

The Experts Agree: Oil Demand Will Skyrocket

Written by Brian Hicks
Posted August 20, 2006

A few days ago the International Energy Agency (IEA) -- a Paris-based institute that acts as an energy policy advisor to 26 countries worldwide -- leveled out their outlook for global oil demand...

The World's Largest Oil Field is Dying

Written by Luke Burgess
Posted August 8, 2006

Believe it or not... One oil field accounts for 6.25% of the world's daily global production -- about 5 million barrels a day...

Rust Never Sleeps...

Written by Brian Hicks
Posted August 7, 2006

Maybe somebody ought to give the fellas over at British Petroleum (BP) Neil Young's phone number. Had they only known that rust never sleeps, we might have avoided the market shock that sent oil...

The Great Oil Reserve Swindle

Written by Luke Burgess
Posted July 31, 2006

OPEC is the true 800-pound gorilla of the oil game. The cartel is officially estimated to control over 887 billion barrels of proved oil reserves -- supposedly two-thirds of the world's remaining...

Let's Talk Turkey

Written by Brian Hicks
Posted June 14, 2006

My oil world expanded about five years ago. I sat in a solarium just off the food court at the University of Kansas student union, talking with two men who said they were from Turkey and...

Zero-Energy Fantasy Land?

Written by Brian Hicks
Posted April 27, 2006

Though I wasn't in Scotland anymore, the man next to me on the train was Scottish.

The Capulets and Montagues

Written by Luke Burgess
Posted January 30, 2006

With the coal and natural gas markets booming, land disputes between the two industries are heating up.