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The global tanker market remains in the doldrums, as freight rates for very large crude carriers (VLCCs) both eastbound and westbound from the Mideast Gulf have remained at or near [...]

London-based shipbroker Simpson, Spence & Young (SSY) cautions that 'rapid fleet growth plus some economic uncertainties are likely to weigh on oil tanker freight rates this year and into 2008,' [...]

Lester Brown, head of the Earth Policy Institute (EPI), called for a moratorium on licensing new ethanol distilleries in the US during a media briefing Thursday, saying a 'time out' [...]

A US Coast Guard source says that yesterday's approval of two LNG receiving and regasification terminals offshore Boston 'can't be great news' for Hess LNG's embattled Weaver's Cove project proposed [...]

Election of a Democratic majority in Congress prompted investors to put money on renewable energy technologies, sending the stocks of many clean energy companies--particularly those of ethanol producers--soaring in the [...]

Banks have a 'healthy appetite' for funding wind energy projects in the US, said Chris Stolarski, senior vice president of Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd., at an American Wind Energy Association [...]

High oil prices have brought about a surge in the development of renewable technologies, but would this interest disappear if oil prices were to continue falling like they have in [...]

Once regarded as costly and impractical, solar technology is now poised to play a larger role in the future, thanks to new developments that are reducing costs and improving efficiency. [...]

The vast cornfields that sweep across the American Midwest may appear endless, but the alluring prospect of meeting US motor fuel demand with corn grown in the heartland faces too [...]

The market for floating production, storage and offloading (FPSO) vessels is heating up as more oil production moves offshore and companies seek to bring on new fields as quickly as [...]

Experts agree that hybrid vehicles are not the silver bullet that will reduce US dependence on imported oil. Instead, it will take a 'robust portfolio of technologies' to make a [...]

US West Coast refiners have started scrambling for alternative crudes to replace shut-in Alaska North Slope production, sending freight futures higher on expectations that it will take BP many months [...]

Shares of renewable energy companies rose alongside oil prices for much of the year, but have come upon hard times recently. Even though crude oil prices have stayed strong--hitting a [...]

Marathon Oil became the latest oil major to enter the ethanol business on Monday, signing a letter of intent with Andersons Inc. to create a joint company that will construct [...]

A glut of new oil tankers due to enter the market from now to 2010 will exert downward pressure on freight rates, but there is no consensus as to when [...]