STUFF

Another reactor in Japan shut down. 1 to go.

ENOC would be worth $3/share on COMV deal today: Wedbush. Presently up 4%.

Obama admin new rules letting science/collaboration guide management of 193M acres of forest/grassland.

Settlement in Calif's '01 energy crisis will fund install of >10k of EV charge stations: Gov Brown.

Econ factors shutting down coal power plants more than regs. (NG price).

Daimler plans to rent EV's.

Canadian oilpipe operator bought NV solar farm.

Duke/Progress filed 3rd merger plan with FERC.

Gov Brown (again) may allow more Calif fracking. Maybe the small earthquakes will stave off the big one. I don't know if that was part of the thinking or not. But that's what I think.

Gulf of Mex dolphins' health problems likely from the oil spill: NOAA.

Net metering pitting solar industry against utilities. Huh.

Paraguay farmers hacking into forests to make way for cattle.

Plummeting UK oil production gets no media attention. Huh.

Tehran's oil exports in Feb down at least 300kb/d from last fall. EU oil stockpiles low. Libyan oil production about back to normal. Smaller outages around world adding up to 1.2mb/d less than expected. And we see US media and Republicans clammoring about high gasoline prices. Grow up.

US natgas rigs now 663 from 811 so far this year. Not only the price but where to store it all. Storage now 20-30% over last year.

Iranian embargo will eventually cut 800k-1mb/d from norm 2.5mb/d. June 28 a big date.

Last year Americans were spending $1.35B/d at gas pumps. This year $1.36. 8mb/d. World demand increasing 1mb/d. US gas prices corrected for inflation still way below 30-40 years ago. So stop your whining and polemic.

Keystone pipeline would add 20 permanent jobs: Cornell study.

Morgan Stanley ships most commodities of any bank.

TransCanada may go with $5.6B oil pipe from West Can to Ontario refineries.

Obama admin offering $450M to cost share engineering, design, certification and licensing for small modular reactors (Bill Gates).

Argentina contesting Falkland offshore oil claims.

6MW wind turbine installed off Belgian coast.

Shell signed contract with CNPC to explore shale gas in China.

India lost up to $200B  revs by selling coal deposits too cheap.

BP, Exxon, Conoco talking $40B project to export LNG from Alaska to Asia.

Iran pursuing extracting crude from shared fields with Kuwait.

Iraq prepping showcase of Arab leaders next week.

China found >30 illegal oil/gas platforms in S. China Sea.

Avg age of US vehicles on the road 11.1 years in '11. A record.

EPA approving E15.

Repsol (Spain) plugged leaking Alaska north slope well.

In '08, Russia was wasting enough E to power Britain for a year. Medvedev then set E intensity target.

Private comps soon to be allowed access to Russia's Arctic oil/gas fields.

Quantas scheduled 1st biofuels commercial flight.

Lebanon - Am U of Beirut - launched algae-based biofuel project.

Spain may ban Argentina biodiesel.

Ecofys thinks seaweed can be harvested around offshore wind turbines.