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Australia has taken coal serious by passing the Australian Offshore Petroleum Amendment Bill, regulating carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS).  Australian Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) has fought for this bill in order to protect the property rights of existing petroleum...

Oil & Gas Journal reports that Gazprom plans to form a joint venture with Qatar Liquefied Gas Co.,Ltd. and the National Iranian Oil Co. for gas production in the Iranian South Paris field and liquefy the gas in Qatar at the Las Raffan site.  The gas would be piped from Iran across the Persian...

The grandiose Nord Stream pipe line project, connecting Russia via two Baltic underwater pipe lines with Germany has been delayed due to increased construction costs, lack of sufficient gas capacity and lack of financing.  Of course, Putin will not admit any Russian problems but puts the blame...

    The most recent Surface Transportation Board Rate Case filed by Oklahoma Gas & Electric (OG&E) against the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) for coal transportation from the Powder River Basin to the Muskogee coal plant actually shows the attractiveness of this move to the...

    Another coal-transporting utility has filed a Rate Case at the Surface Transportation Board (STB) alleging excessive rates for coal transportation.  This most recent case was filed by Oklahoma Gas & Electric (OG&E) against the Union Pacific Railroad (UP) for coal...

Chesapeake Energy, the largest US unconventional natural gas producer, has sold 32.5% of its shale gas ("SG") assets in the Marcellus shale region in Pennsylvania, West Virginia and New York.  Statoil has agreed to pay $3.38 billion.  $1.25 billion would be in cash and $2.125 billion is to...

    The suit alleges four of the Class I Railroads violated Federal antitrust laws with respect to fuel surcharge.  The four Class I Railroads in the suit are CSX, Norfolk Southern, BNSF Railway, and Union Pacific Railroad.  The time period is July 2003 through June 20...

    The Dakota Minnesota & Eastern (DM&E) Railroad was recently acquired by the Canadian Pacific (CP) Railway.  The DM&E has for years been proposing an extension to the Wyoming Powder River Basin coal reserves.  This project, if commenced, would upgrade an...

Suzlon of India, the number five wind turbine manufacturer has run into serious technical troubles: a 140 foot long turbine blade just now broke of a wind tower in Illinois, while Suzlon is in the process to replace 1,251 turbine blades due to blade cracks in their US wind turbine fleet. ...

Putin sent a twelve member delegation to a premature meeting in Alaska, including  Gazprom's chief executive Aleksei Miller and deputy director Aleksandr Golubyev, like Putin a veteran of the KGB. The delegation did not meet with Governor Sarah Palin but with Tom Ivan, the commissioner of the Department...