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Yesterday, the USGS released its new assessment of reserves in North Dakota’s Bakken oil formation—doubling its last estimates (published in 2008) from 3.6 billion barrels of recoverable oil to 7.4 b, and tripling its gas ...
Posted Wednesday, May 1st, 2013 at 2:55 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Natural Gas, Oil Production
As announced in last night’s State of the Union Address, President Obama is moving forward with one of the policy recommendations set forth in Securing America’s Future Energy’s most recent report, “A National Strategy for...
Posted Wednesday, February 13th, 2013 at 10:53 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil Dependence, Policy
Positive numbers this morning showed a dramatic cut in the trade deficit in December 2012, largely due to significantly reduced petroleum imports and a notable uptick in exports of refined petroleum products. By the numbers:
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Posted Friday, February 8th, 2013 at 12:06 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil Dependence
The international community is reeling from the attacks on a gas installation in Algeria last week, which left at least 38 hostages—including a number of Americans—dead and others missing. Last week, we remarked in this space ...
Posted Friday, January 25th, 2013 at 1:05 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Foreign Policy, National Security
Earlier this week, the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) released the first Short Term Energy Outlook (STEO) for 2013, and the first one to include projections for 2014. Headlines from the Financial Times and Wall Stree...
Posted Friday, January 11th, 2013 at 2:18 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Foreign Policy, Oil Dependence
Energy Security Leadership Council (ESLC) co-Chairmen General P.X. Kelley (USMC, Ret.) and Frederick W. Smith, CEO of FedEx Corporation, published this oped in NRO discussing the economic and fiscal impact of U.S. oil dependen...
Posted Monday, December 3rd, 2012 at 8:29 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Supply, National Security, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Two weeks ago, the Group of Seven (G7) finance ministers called on the world’s oil exporters to increase production, in an unprecedented attempt to mitigate high crude oil prices (Brent Crude has been trading above $110/barrel f...
Posted Tuesday, September 11th, 2012 at 2:28 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil Dependence
It has been a rough summer for the ethanol industry. As we reported a few weeks ago in this space, the Renewable Fuels Standard—the policy bedrock of the United States’ biofuels industry—has been facing increasing political ...
Posted Friday, August 31st, 2012 at 10:22 am | Filed in: Alternatives, Biofuels, Energy Security, Energy Supply
As Issac churns its way through the Gulf of Mexico, the GOP convention is certainly not the only important activity threatened with a significant disruption. Oil and gas production, for which the gulf provides 23 percent of U.S. t...
Posted Monday, August 27th, 2012 at 12:57 pm | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Gas Prices, Oil, Oil Prices
This week the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) published its “World Oil Transit Chokepoints” analysis on its webpage. It is a study of the world’s main maritime chokepoints through which oil must pass before reac...
Posted Friday, August 24th, 2012 at 12:21 pm | Filed in: Energy Supply, National Security, Oil, Oil Prices
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