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Masdar CEO Admits An End To Oil

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Givot's Premature Oil Production Near Rosh Ha'Ayin, Israel

Givot Olam Oil Exploration LP push to production without reservoir report or stable production rates. In the face of serious climate change, Israel's Petroleum Law (1952)...

Register Early For the "Smart Grids" Middle East Conference

Smart Grids are redefining the electricity future. Worldwide experts in the field will gather to share their know-how with the Middle East in Dubai...

Energy Giant BP Signs Gas Deal With Egyptian Government

Is the Mediterranean Sea fated to end up like the Gulf of Mexico? Like a giant herd of marauding elephants pounding through the forest,...

UN To Mediate A Natural Gas "Standoff" Between Israel and Lebanon Gas Fields Dispute

Fights over rights to a natural gas field between Israel and the Hezbollah, has gone to the higher powers at the UN. Israel has...

Hezbollah Interferes With Israel's Mediterranean Energy Business

Lebanon looks to lay claim to natural gas find off Israel's coast. Image of Mediterranean Sea from Beirut. Lebanon's Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah is not...

Global Post Names Ramallah's Khaled Al Sabawi One Of World's Top Energy Entrepreneurs

Copenhagen's negotiations went up in smoke, and too many governments are seduced by the comforts of oil. Since we can't trust the good ol'...

Poor Egyptians Find Innovative Ways to Build Solar Water Heating

Hussein Farag's home made version of a solar water heater is not as sophisticated as these made in Israel, but it's a heck of...

Syria’s Master Plan for Renewable Energy

Wind farms, like this one in the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, may soon be common in Syria. About 90 percent of Syria's electric power comes from...

Libyan Oil Clout Now Pushing for Buying Stake in BP

Libyan bargain hunters look to scoop up shares of BP. Should the world's environmentalists be concerned? Image of Libyan president al-Gaddafi via Daily...

Israeli Citizen Group "Save Adullam" To Fight Oil Shale Plans

Israel's Energy Initiatives' (IEI) oil shale ambitions threaten the environment, and livelihood of Judean hills residents. By now, with the world's worst oil...

Are Iran Oil Sanctions Finally Kicking In?

As major oil companies pull out of Iran, analysts differ over the import of new economic sanctions. By all objective standards, this week Iran is...

Libya Goes Ahead with BP Drilling Agreement despite the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill

BP to go ahead with deepwater drilling in the Mediterranean Sea, off the coast of Libya, which holds Africa's largest oil reserves - the...

Sunray Solar and Sun Power Combine in $277 Million Deal

The world solar energy industry looks even brighter following the purchase of  Sunray Renewable Energy by the American solar energy giant Sun Power Corporation...

Forests may not be the greatest carbon sinks – here’s why

It can take decades of forest growth before the ‘cooling’ CO2 sequestration can overtake these opposing ‘warming’ processes, finds new study on Yatir Forest...

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