Robert Perkins analyses how seismic shifts in world energy production and consumption have impacted Platts Top 250 Energy Company Rankings for 2015. He also assesses the difficult financial outlook many energy companies now face because of the steep downturn in oil prices.
Iron ore miners Rio Tinto and Vale remain nose to nose in claiming industry leadership for 2015. Who will emerge ahead when it comes to Q4?
If you make oil predictions, you make incorrect predictions, Jeffrey Bair has been. But he thinks it's best to take Dev Patel's advice.
(Tue, 27 Oct 2015) Energy demand for space cooling is growing rapidly in India and around the world, driven by rising incomes and a natural preference for certain ambient air temperatures.
(Tue, 27 Oct 2015) EIA's most comprehensive report on recent integrated energy statistics. This month, the MER features new Table 2.7, ?U.S. Government Energy Consumption by Agency, Fiscal Years? and new Table 2.8, ?U.S. Government Energy Consumption by Source, Fiscal Years.? Estimates indicate that in fiscal year 2014, the U.S. federal government consumed 941 trillion Btu of energy, a 2% decrease from the previous fiscal year.
(Tue, 27 Oct 2015) Third quarter 2015 update of uranium production in the United States and operating status of U.S. uranium mills and plants.
(Tue, 27 Oct 2015) Data in the October 2015 Electric Power Monthly (EPM ) are for August 2015, during which net generation in the United States rose 2.1 percent from the August 2014 level. Consumption of coal for power generation fell 8.6 percent compared to August 2014. The average retail price of electricity for August 2015 was down 0.5 percent from what it had been in August 2014.
(Tue, 27 Oct 2015) This issue contains data for August 2015 as well as a feature article on how axis-tracking technologies improved the capacity factors of photovoltaic systems.
US and Canadian shale has proved a game-changer for an entire industry. In this video, Ross McCracken examines how shale players' transition to 'factory' modes of production, and their extraordinary compression of the investment and oil production cycle has changed world crude flows and markets.
(Mon, 26 Oct 2015) This analysis examines some of the factors that influence state-level carbon dioxide emissions from the consumption of fossil fuels. These factors include: the fuel mix ? especially in the generation of electricity; the state climate; the population density of the state; the industrial makeup of the state and whether the state is a net exporter or importer of electricity.
