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More than anything, the Department of Energy’s Friday’s approval of the Freeport facility to export Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) underscores how quickly things change.
Like many other facilities around the country, Freeport...
Posted Tuesday, May 21st, 2013 at 1:42 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Energy Demand, Natural Gas, Policy
Today’s Short Term Energy Outlook held few surprises, except to reaffirm the nation’s new energy paradigm. By the numbers:
Predictably, natural gas prices are projected to see some modest gains through 2014. Average Henry H...
Posted Tuesday, May 7th, 2013 at 3:09 pm | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Security, Policy
This week, Citibank’s commodities team made headlines with their new report: Global Oil Demand Growth – The End is Nigh. Citibank anticipates global oil demand growth will peak by the end of the decade. Why? In their view: in ...
Posted Friday, March 29th, 2013 at 3:04 pm | Filed in: Alternatives, Energy Demand, Energy Security
This month, BP released “BP Energy Outlook 2030,” its annual projections of future energy trends. This year, particular attention was paid to the revolution in American energy driven by shale gas and tight oil.
On a posit...
Posted Thursday, January 24th, 2013 at 1:42 pm | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Security, Oil Dependence
According to the most recent Energy Information Administration (EIA) Monthly Energy Review, the year 2012 is on pace to have the lowest monthly average oil consumption since 1996 despite sixteen years of sometimes uneven populatio...
Posted Monday, August 20th, 2012 at 3:02 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Demand, Energy Efficiency, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence
The big energy news this week is China National Offshore Oil Corporation (Cnooc)—not to be confused with China Petroleum and Chemical Corporation Limited (Sinopec) and China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC)—is acquiring C...
Posted Tuesday, July 24th, 2012 at 11:19 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Supply
If you think massive oil reserves protect a country from the whims of the global oil market, think again. Two articles this week, in the Financial Times, and the New York Times, underscore the energy woes of the planet’s two lar...
Posted Tuesday, July 17th, 2012 at 11:52 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Beginning July 1, the European embargo of Iranian oil will come into effect. European action, which was announced in January, has this week been accompanied by South Korea, one of Iran’s primary oil clients in Asia, who agreed t...
Posted Friday, June 29th, 2012 at 1:51 pm | Filed in: Energy Demand, Oil, Oil Dependence
On June 26, 1956, the U.S. Congress approved the Federal Highway Act, allocating more than $30 billion (approximately $250 billion in 2012 dollars) for the construction of 41,000 miles of interstate highways through the National S...
Posted Tuesday, June 26th, 2012 at 2:32 pm | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Efficiency, Oil Dependence, Transportation
The Congressional Research Service (CRS) released a new report this week discussing the impact of changing oil prices on the U.S. trade deficit. They highlighted the rising cost of energy as one factor that helped dampen the rat...
Posted Friday, June 22nd, 2012 at 8:03 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Demand, Energy Supply, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
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