I am back in Hawaii, and over the next couple of days I will climb out from under an avalanche of correspondence. I have a couple of essays to get out, including an interview that I conducted with the CEO from an algae company. What he said may surprise you....

Crude oil prices rise less than a percent as the dollar continues to drop against the Euro.

Cairn India Ltd. to agree on levy with India at around $9.00 a barrel. By 2011, Cairn hopes to have the field producing 175,000 barrels a day.

There is a good overview in today's Guardian regarding the status of affairs with respect to electricity storage technologies:The challenge for green energy: how to store excess electricitySo with grid parity now looming, finding ways to store millions of watts of excess electricity for times ...

Sometimes people ask me what I think will happen as a result of peak oil. Well, it depends. We could see alternatives - natural gas, ethanol, GTL, CTL, etc. - fill the gap of falling oil supplies for a while. It just depends on how quickly production falls. But if ...

On my latest trip to Amsterdam this week I saw 19 oil tankers parked off the coast in the North Sea (ironically next to a Dutch offshore wind farm). These tankers are being used for floating storage due to the glut of oil in the market. Despite this, oil ...

I have seen a flurry of recent predictions on oil and gas prices going forward, so I thought I would share some. Most of them support the thesis I recently put forward that we are setting the stage for another run on prices over the next 3-5 years. But ...

Peak Lite and the Current Oil PictureA few years ago, after spending a lot of time thinking about peak oil, and then watching the price of oil break out of its historical trading range and head higher, the idea of Peak Lite came to me. Over time ...

Every time gas prices start to go up, my essay "Why Are Gas Prices Rising?" gets a lot of hits from Google searches by people looking for an explanation. Because the supply/demand dynamics have changed, that essay needs dusting off, especially in light of stories like this:...

Tis the season for Top 10 stories, and here are what I think were the Top 10 energy stories of the year.1. Unprecedented volatility in the energy marketsOil prices raced to nearly $150 a barrel, and then fell to the $30's by year end. ...