Category: ‘ Natural Gas ’

 

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 ...

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 ...

Political Roundup: A “Plan to Act” without a “Plan of Attack”

This Thursday, Democrats discussed their energy strategy in a closed door caucus meeting. After the meeting, E&E Daily quotes Majority Leader Reid as he states his four main goals for an energy bill: "Whatever form it takes...

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...

US CAP fracturing?

Sheila McNulty and Ed Crooks have a good piece in this morning's FT about recent departures from the strange-bedfellow coalition that has been the U.S. Climate Action Partnership, or USCAP. (http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fe85190a-1...
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