DrumBeat: August 25, 2006

[Update by Leanan on 08/25/06 at 9:21 AM EDT]

Oil jumps on U.S. Gulf storm threat

As CNN noted this morning, the models on this one are unusually congruent. Not the typical mess of spaghetti:

TheStormTrack thinks this one could be nasty - worse than the NHC is currently predicting.


USDA-DOE Announce Additional Key Note Speakers for Review: Matt Simmons is on the list.

Additional keynote speakers have been confirmed for Advancing Renewable Energy: An American Rural Renaissance. This conference is co-hosted by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and is designed to create partnerships and strategies that will accelerate commercialization of renewable energy industries and distribution systems, the crux of President Bush's Advanced Energy Initiative. Advancing Renewable Energy, is scheduled to take place October 10-12, 2006, at the America's Center in St. Louis, Missouri.


Biofuels may strain U.N. goals of ending hunger


Venezuela's Chavez plans to more than triple oil exports to China


Arab region's gas demand growth overtakes oil


South American Gas Pipeline Project on Hold, Petrobras Says

Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil's state-controlled oil company, said plans to build a $20 billion natural gas pipeline from Venezuela to Argentina are on hold because of an impasse between Brazil and Bolivia over energy prices.


Mexico's PEMEX Restarts Development of Mature Fields


Russia spins global energy spider's web


Geostrategic oil interests and the Gulf


Oil firms 'hushing up' crisis of corroding pipelines


World can absorb oil rises, bank chief says


Six Steps to Beating Global Warming


Coal Gasification Archive Goes Online


Analysis: The death of oil?


Is $5 Per Gallon Gasoline Enough?


DOE predicts gasoline shortages