Category: ‘ Energy Supply ’

 

Weekly Political Roundup

This week, a new 12-18 month waiting period was announced, and both Democrats and Republicans in Washington let out a collective groan of frustration.  The news, however, was not of another delay in the seemingly interminable wai...

Greenpeace versus Greenland

Readers of this space read last week about the protests over Cairn Energy's production activities in the Arctic.  Today's WSJ has a nice piece by James Herron (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870420680457546739021846...

Selective environmentalism

Gotta love the blog in this morning's FT by Masa Serdarevic entitled "Oil drilling in the Arctic?  Blame the bankers" ( http://blogs.ft.com/energy-source/2010/08/25/oil-drilling-in-the-arctic-blame-the-bankers/).  For those who...

It’s not the Oil Imports, It’s Just the Oil!

The distinction between domestically produced and imported oil has been a subject of considerable debate and confusion.  From an energy security standpoint, a common argument goes that increased production of oil in the United St...

Unconventional Gas; Unconventional Wisdom

Today, it is widely recognized that domestic shale/tight gas and hydraulic fracturing (or “fracking”) represent a key resource and technology to the future energy supply and economy of the United States. What does foreign shal...

I’ll take my corn in a bottle, thanks

This morning's E&E ( http://www.eenews.net/EEDaily/2010/07/15/2/) continues the on-going debate over taxpayer subsidies for corn-based ethanol -- a poster-child for the government picking winners based on persistent lobbying...

Moves towards greater transparency improving outlook for shale gas

The Wall Street Journal reported today that Range Resources Corporation (Range), one of a large number of independent companies drilling in the Marcellus Shale, would begin submitting lists of all the chemicals and additives, and ...

The Latest on the Drilling Moratorium

In the latest update to the legal battle underway between the Obama administration and the Fifth Circuit, the Interior Secretary Ken Salazar announced on Monday a new drilling moratorium to halt deepwater oil and natural gas drill...

The Rise of Gas OPEC?

Natural gas will assume an increasing share of the U.S. energy mix over the next several decades. That is one of the few certain trends in the energy field today, rightly identified by a recent MIT report on the future of natural ...

An ocean of gas or a “fractured” policy?

Policy makers and stakeholders need to be paying attention to the current congressional debate on a technique used to extract natural gas from tight shale formations.  As the country focuses on the disaster in the Gulf, key legis...