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Energy Supply ’
75 entries in this category. Displaying 31-35 of 75
For many parts of the world, 2009 has been a year of decline. We need 2010 to be a year of recovery and renewal. This process starts with sound investment strategies for long-term growth. In the case of oil, the outlook is g...
Posted Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009 at 7:26 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Supply, Oil Dependence
In an effort to cobble together 60 votes on energy and climate legislation before the legislative session’s clock strikes midnight, ‘tripartisan’ Sens. John Kerry (D-MA), Lindsey Graham (R-SC), and Joe Lieberman (I-CT) relea...
Posted Friday, December 11th, 2009 at 2:06 pm | Filed in: Energy Supply, Environment, Legislation, Nuclear
Liberating Iraq from the politically repressive and economically backwards regime of Saddam Hussein ought at this point to at least have liberated a few of the 40 billion barrels of oil known to be lying just underneath Kurdistan....
Posted Tuesday, November 24th, 2009 at 11:16 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, Energy Supply
This morning's FT guest columnist Michael Rothman pens an interesting piece entitled, "Prosperity of the world hinges on oil."http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/34d8bf80-c8d2-11de-8f9d-00144feabdc0.html?nclick_check=1
That's true and tr...
Posted Thursday, November 5th, 2009 at 9:20 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply
Today the NYT's editors not suprisingly praise Chesapeake's decision not to exercise rights under a lease to produce natural gas within the area containing New York City's watershed (http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/opinion/29t...
Posted Thursday, October 29th, 2009 at 6:08 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Natural Gas
After a largely discouraging first 9 months of the year, this was the kind of week energy security proponents needed. With Copenhagen on the horizon and the prospect of an unproductive year staring them in the face, leading Democr...
Posted Friday, October 16th, 2009 at 10:13 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Environment, Legislation
Following weeks of new discoveries, if anyone is still concerned that global oil supplies are falling, today we received news about yet another new technology for extending the life of existing oil fields.
To do this, Chevron i...
Posted Friday, October 9th, 2009 at 7:50 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Oil Prices
The headline in this afternoon's Greenwire (http://www.eenews.net/Greenwire/2009/10/08/5/) reads: "Saudis want aid if world cuts need for oil"
Normally, we'd spend a few minute snarking incredulously on that headline alone, b...
Posted Thursday, October 8th, 2009 at 1:15 pm | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, National Security, Oil Dependence
These are tough times for the U.S. natural gas industry. Prices are at lows not seen since early 2002. With a month to go before the start of the winter heating season, underground storage is at a record level of 3.6 trillion cubi...
Posted Monday, October 5th, 2009 at 9:41 am | Filed in: Energy Supply, Natural Gas
Yesterday the Senate defeated an amendment by Senator David Vitter (R-LA) that was an attempt to force the Interior Department to implement an end of Bush administration OCS 5-year plan. By no means does this defeat mean a tabli...
Posted Thursday, September 24th, 2009 at 10:44 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, Oil Dependence
