• Gulf lease sale generates $115 million, which is actually not that much.
• Don’t worry about dropping Latin America imports, Gulf coast refiners, the Deepwater and Canada have your back.
• Oil back over $72 after large storage drawdown.
• Mixed economic news, or even good news with a caveat, means oil will be below $100.
• Allen Brooks on the crude disconnect.
• Norweigan firm still waiting for the first check from Iraqi oil ministry.
• Groups sue Chevron Phillips plant over emissions, including benzene. Same envrionmentalists got a settlement from Shell over its Deer Park plant last year.
• Chevron dealt a setback in Ecuador environmental case when judge fines local counsel.
• Will there be an OPEC for Lithium, the key battery component?
• The Blue Green Alliance, a counterpoint to Energy Citizens, starts its green jobs event tour this week. One argument in their favor: green jobs tend to be safer.
• Natural gas industry decides it wants a piece of the Waxman-Markey pie. Coal industry did a better job of getting its voice heard in the bill, such as continuing to grandfather old power plants.
• Seven in U.K. arrested over avoiding to pay carbon credit taxes.
• Germany aims for 1 million electric cars by 2020.
• Oil tanker ablaze near Taiwan after collision.
• Pemex in search of contractors for 200 wells.
• With death penalties for polluters, is China ready for a “green revolution”?
