“The Florida-based UPDA (www.updastock.com) is doing its part to help the U.S. become more energy independent by buying and leasing U.S. properties with proven oil reserves, applying state-of-the-art technology, and pumping out sought-after oil and natural gas. “Americans use over 20 million barrels of oil a day, over half of which is imported,” said Abdullah. [...]

Scores of Greenpeace activists today formed a huge inscription Climate Change Starts Here at the Cernice coal mine near Most to protest against raising the official Czech limits for brown coal mining.
Jan Rovensky, head of the Czech Greenpeace climate campaign, said that if the limits are broken, the amount of carbon dioxide emissions will double. [...]

When some of the industry’s top executives gather in Houston next week to discuss global energy challenges, finding new and more effective ways to produce oil and gas — as well as alternatives to fossil fuels — will dominate the discussion.
And, as the year progresses, expect to see industry leaders — including the chiefs [...]

With dwindling oil supplies, pollution concerns and the ever-present threat of gas prices soaring again, talk of new and better ways to fuel cars, heat and cool homes, and power factories has never been greater.
What’s more, the conversation is emanating increasingly from a source that’s been surprisingly quiet until recently — the oil companies themselves.
When [...]

Locomotive trains hauling coal to a slew of proposed new power plants in North Texas would emit enough pollution that local leaders may have to consider more drastic measures than already planned to meet federal ozone regulations, a state analysis concludes.
TXU Corp. and energy industry advocates insist that the coal-fired power plants planned to be [...]

Petroleum Geo-Services ASA , announced that Mr. Anthony Tripodo has resigned from the Board of Directors effective from February 1, 2007, due to his recent appointment as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of the oil services company Tesco Corporation. Tesco is a global leader in the design, manufacture and service of technology based [...]

Bolivian President Evo Morales said Friday he will move ahead with plans to nationalize the country’s mining sector following last year’s move to take over its oil and natural gas industries.
Morales, speaking to reporters at a summit of presidents of the Mercosur trade bloc in Rio de Janeiro, said his government was studying carefully details [...]

Bolivia’s government will move ahead with plans to nationalize the mining industry, President Evo Morales said Friday, in the latest move by a left-leaning Latin American nation toward more state control of key sectors.
Morales, speaking to reporters at a summit of presidents of the Mercosur trade bloc in the Brazilian city of Rio de [...]

Tesco Corporation today announced that it has entered into an equipment placement agreement with ENSCO Offshore Company to provide TESCO’s proprietary Casing Drive System(TM) (CDS(TM)) onto ENSCO’s offshore rigs. ENSCO Offshore Co., based in Broussard, Louisiana, is a full service drilling contractor operating in the Gulf of Mexico and South America. Under terms of the [...]

Torrent Energy Corporation announced it has retained U.S.-based Pfeiffer High Investor Relations, Inc., and Canada’s CHF Investor Relations (Cavalcanti Hume Funfer Inc.) to develop and manage a North American investor awareness campaign together. This program will be supplemented with an internet based program contracted through Stockgroup Media.
John Carlson, Torrent’s President and CEO, commented, “We [...]