Bloomberg, 27 October 2010

China has a total wind turbine project pipeline of more than 170 gigawatts in different stages of development, MAKE Consulting said in a report.

CNN, 27 October 2010

The U.S. Geological Survey says a revised estimate for the amount of conventional, undiscovered oil in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska is a fraction of a previous estimate. The group estimates about 896 million barrels of such oil are in the reserve, about 90 percent less than a 2002 estimate of 10.6 billion barrels.

CNNMoney, 27 October 2010

If you thought electric cars were about to take over the world's highways, a new report by auto analysts at J.D. Power Associates says, "Not so fast." By 2020, the vast majority of new cars sold around the world will run on gasoline, not electricity, according to the report "Drive Green 2020: More Hope Than Reality." In ten years, just 7.3% of passenger vehicles sold globally will be hybrids or plug-in cars of some kind, the study predicts.

Rigzone, 25 October 2010

We were struck by the oddity of a detailed discussion about the industry debate over technical factors integral to predicting the decline rate of gas shale wells in a recent column in the Financial Times, a bastion of international finance news.  Several weeks ago, as we were flying to Calgary to deliver a speech to a group of coiled tubing enthusiasts, we opened the FT, as it is better known in financial circles, and came across a column by John Dizard entitled "The rate of shale gas decline is causing a heated debate."