Staying on Track: A New Tool for Designing and Meeting Emissions-Reduction Goals

China just announced a mitigation goal to peak its emissions by 2030 or earlier, while the United Statescommitted to reduce its national emissions by 26-28 percent below 2005 levels by 2025.

4 Recommendations to Limit Impacts of Fracking on Water

Experts recommended companies consider using recycled water or other alternatives instead. For more on this, CCTV America was joined by Paul Reig. He is an associate at WRI and the co-author of the group’s report on shale gas and water availability.

Lack Of Water Could Limit Oil And Gas Development In Energy-Rich Nations

Lack of available water could crimp energy development in many of the nations with the most abundant shale oil and shale gas resources, a new study predicts.

Forty percent of the world’s countries with the largest shale oil and shale gas resources have arid conditions or steep competition for water, according to the World Resources Institute report, Global Shale Gas Development: Water Availability & Business Risk.

UAE energy security lies in diversification

The UAE, as a major oil and gas producer, might appear immune from a physical cut-off of supplies, a danger menacing Europe during its confrontation with Russia. But it is a small country, in an often volatile area, and with a hostile climate.

Fracking Recycles During Drought

Hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking” is a proven and safe way to extract additional oil and gas from both existing well fields and from the shale oil fields that, until the technology improved, were very difficult and expensive to properly utilize.

World Water Day 2014

Water and energy are closely interlinked and interdependent. Energy generation and transmission requires utilization of water resources, particularly for hydroelectric, nuclear, and thermal energy sources

Recycling leftover fracturing water has its benefits

Nearly 100 billion gallons of water were used for hydraulic fracturing between 2011 and 2013, according to an industry water demand report released earlier this year by Ceres

KNPC would invest $35bln on expanding oil and gas projects

The Kuwait National

Petroleum Company (KNPC) chief executive Mohammed Ghazi al Mutairi said earlier this year that KNPC would invest $35bln on expanding oil and gas projects over the next five years. Much of this will be spent on Kuwait’s Clean Fuels Project (a major component of Kuwait’s current development plans), which involves a series of refinery upgrades.

The US Humanitarian Intervention in Iraq: The Oil and Water Angle

http://theenergycollective.com/amjaffe/462766/us-humanitarian-intervention-iraq-oil-and-water-angle?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=The+Energy+Collective+(all+posts)

On 11 June, OPEC reaffirmed the group’s crude oil production target of 30 million bpd which has been in place since December 2011.

http://www.energyglobal.com/news/drilling-and-production/articles/OPEC_versus_Non_OPEC_oil_production.aspx#.U-pXwBZ8CyN

Large capex requirements for developing the necessary water and infrastructure

http://www.mineweb.com/mineweb/content/en/mineweb-sustainable-mining?oid=248592&sn=Detail

Iraq's Oil - Quicktake

Great Article explaining the effects of recent events on the price of oil.....More production means more water usage. Increased need for water recycling and reuse

http://www.bloomberg.com/quicktake/iraqs-oil/

Safe Fracking Powers America

http://energytomorrow.org/blog/2014/july/safe-fracking-is-powering-america

Iraq a minor bump on the road to an inevitable oil price surge

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/industry-news/energy-and-resources/iraq-a-minor-bump-on-road-to-inevitable-oil-price-surge/article19273629/

Saudi Arabia Oil Reserves

http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/09/06/saudi-arabia-oil-reserves_n_1862018.html

World Cup of Water Shortages!!!!!

http://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-business/sao-paulo-water-shortage-world-cup

Global Water for Onshore Oil & Gas Report 2014

http://www.fortmilltimes.com/2014/05/27/3505000/research-and-markets-global-water.html

Fracking Water Treatment Equipment Boom

http://www.waterworld.com/articles/2014/05/market-for-fracking-water-treatment-equipment-to-reach-350-million-in-2018.html