Category: ‘ Natural Gas ’

 

Fracking fracas

The NYT Energy & Environment blog has a piece today on upcoming hearings on what is the main energy issue, by far, in the U.S. today:  hydraulic fracturing to produce natural gas from shale formations. New York’s charged...

The SEC and energy policy

Deborah Solomon has a must-read piece in today's WSJ.  Banner headline in the Marketplace section:  "SEC Drills Down on Fracking."  In a move reminiscent companies disclosing their liabilities under a potential carbon pricing/...

Natural Gas: Game Changer or False Hope?

This morning, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee met to hear from experts regarding the potential of natural gas in future energy markets.  The panel included experts from the Energy Information Administration, Dow...

The critical path on energy

This morning Jeffrey Ball has a good piece in the WSJ that should be grounds for hope on the critical path item on US energy security.  We've written in the past about the criticality of natural gas to future US electricity price...

Industry needs to address rising concerns over hydraulic fracturing

It was reported yesterday that the Environmental Protection Agency of Pennsylvania had fined Chesapeake Energy Corporation approximately $1.1 million for contaminating well water ($900,000) and causing a tank fire ($188,000) durin...

Israel’s Emerging Energy Sector

Guest Column by David Wurmser and Jonathan M. Baron Even as heads of state and foreign ministers contemplate every development in Israeli-Palestinian negotiations, historians may instead note the coming weeks as the moment when...

Not so fast on the dash to gas

We're writing today from the front lines of the unconventional gas wars -- or at least a key skirmish in that war.  Here in northeast Pennsylvania, where the archery and firearm hunting bear harvest is featured news on the sports...

EIA releases reserves report

The Energy Information Administration released its latest assessment of domestic U.S. crude oil and natural gas reserves today, and the data appear to lend continued support to a bullish outlook for natural gas.  The report, enti...

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...

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 ...
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