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A bipartisan group of former U.S. ambassadors joined forces today to officially launch the Diplomatic Council on Energy Security (DCES)—a project of Securing America’s Future Energy (SAFE). The members of t...
Posted Thursday, May 17th, 2012 at 9:33 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Security, National Security, Oil Dependence
Many papers report today that North Dakota is now the second leading state in terms of oil production, having passed Alaska and now trailing only Texas.
The WSJ puts it this way:
North Dakota has passed Alaska to become the ...
Posted Wednesday, May 16th, 2012 at 7:00 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Supply, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence
What is driving the current surge in American petroleum production, how will it influence the nation’s energy landscape, what are the implications for our energy security, and what is the relationship between energy security and...
Posted Tuesday, May 8th, 2012 at 8:53 am | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, National Security, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Policy
Moises Naim had a powerful piece in the FT exploring the conundrum that is the decline of Pemex, PDVSA and YPF -- the state-owned oil companies in hydrocarbon-rich Mexico, Venezuela and Argentina.
Naim notes that "during a per...
Posted Monday, April 23rd, 2012 at 8:00 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, National Security, Oil, Policy
Javier Blas, Commodities Editor at the Financial Times, ran an important article recently, noting that the US and Japan "have become increasingly vulnerable to high oil prices as producers in the Opec cartel import fewer...
Posted Thursday, April 19th, 2012 at 6:39 am | Filed in: Energy Security, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices
Strange editorial in today's WaPo on natural gas and global warming. The Post poses the question: "Will natural gas hinder the fight against global warming?"
The clear answer is yes, unless leakage rates from natural gas ...
Posted Monday, April 16th, 2012 at 7:09 am | Filed in: Electrification, Energy Security, National Security, Natural Gas
The Financial Times has great coverage this week of the situation in Iran. Commodities editor Javier Blas reported on Tuesday that Iranian sanctions are working—maybe even a little too well. The original goal of the sanctions wa...
Posted Friday, April 13th, 2012 at 1:23 pm | Filed in: Economic Security, Energy Demand, National Security, Oil
Benoit Faucon reports in today's WSJ that France, where President Nicolas Sarkozy is up for reelection, "said it is in talks with the International Energy Agency about tapping emergency oil stockpiles, joining the U.S. and U.K. ...
Posted Thursday, March 29th, 2012 at 7:12 am | Filed in: Energy Security, Energy Supply, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence
It's always useful, if depressing, to have the facts of the oil market set out in the mainstream media. In today's case, Steven Mufson of the WaPo has a piece about our friends in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia seeking to help calm...
Posted Thursday, March 22nd, 2012 at 10:23 am | Filed in: Energy Demand, Energy Security, Energy Supply, Gas Prices, National Security, Oil, Oil Dependence, Oil Prices, Uncategorized
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