Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Brazil. Show all posts
Thursday, December 15, 2011

The Brazil Spill

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Late yesterday I saw a headline reporting that Chevron was being assessed more than $10 billion for a spill from its drilling activities off...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

The Anthropocene and Other Topics

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For the first four years of this blog I published nearly every weekday, and as time went on occasionally struggled to find suitable topics. ...
Thursday, June 09, 2011

Do OPEC Meetings Matter?

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Yesterday's meeting of OPEC in Vienna attracted extra attention because of disagreements between Saudi Arabia and Iran that extend well ...
Tuesday, March 08, 2011

Arguing With the Numbers

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Over the weekend I read a remark in one of the Wall St. Journal's political columns that resonated with an implicit theme of this blog s...
Monday, December 06, 2010

Turning Biomass into Power or Fuel

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This morning I ran across a news item indicating that Dow Chemical was installing a biomass cogeneration unit at its facility in Aratu, Braz...
Thursday, July 15, 2010

Moratorium Follies

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This week Secretary of Interior Salazar reissued the administration's deepwater drilling moratorium, with a few new twists and a notion...
Friday, January 22, 2010

Energy Lessons from Brazil

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I was surprised by a headline I saw this morning: " Brazilians Call for Cut to 20% Ethanol Import Tax ." At first I thought this ...
Wednesday, November 04, 2009

"Carbon Debt"

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A new term has entered our lexicon without much fanfare, but that is about to change. When the Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework...
Wednesday, July 02, 2008

The Ethanol Tariff and Subsidy Reform

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Brazilian ethanol producers have long sought a level playing field on which to compete with their US counterparts, and this week they are la...
Friday, April 25, 2008

Vertical Integration

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Vertical integration is a time-honored strategy in the oil and gas industry, though for the last couple of decades it has operated in more o...
Friday, November 09, 2007

An Elephant in Perspective

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Enthusiasm about Brazil's new giant oilfield, Tupi , has sharply boosted the stock price of Petrobras , which owns 65% of the offshore b...
Monday, September 10, 2007

Ethanol Diversification

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The lead story of today's Wall Street Journal concerns the efforts of international commodity firms, including US companies such as ADM,...
Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Our Energy Omelet

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Today's Washington Post cast some serious doubts on the environmental sustainability of producing ethanol from Brazilian sugar cane, dem...
Friday, March 09, 2007

Trade Missions

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In the last week two powerful executives have taken important trips to meet with officials in nations that could supply the US with addition...
Thursday, February 08, 2007

Ethanol Tariffs and Trade

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Today's Washington Post reports that US and Brazilian officials are meeting this week in talks on a new biofuels energy partnership, wit...