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In our article US LNG Exports: March Madness and the Road to the Final Four Projects, we predicted that Freeport LNG would make it to the final round of US LNG export projects approved by the US Department of Energy (DOE). According to a Freeport LNG news release issued on Friday, our LNG Export...
President Obama's top energy adviser repeatedly huddled with oil and gas lobbyists in the months before the administration changed new hydraulic fracturing rules to the industry's liking, records show. Heather Zichal, deputy assistant to the president for energy and climate change, also met with environmental...
For basketball fans, nothing is better than March Madness where sixty-four college basketball teams line up with a shot to win it all after a series of games played throughout the month of March. As the NCAA tournament progresses, the field is eventually split into four groups of 16 teams known...
Economists are suckers for a good paradox. Few things are more intellectually appealing to the practicing economist than a result which runs counter to his or her immediate intuition. Indeed, some of the most enduring ideas in history of economic thought have surprising implications at the heart of their...
British prime minister David Cameron has welcomed a deal to provide energy for the UK via liquefied natural gas exports from U.S. shale fields. Finding a secure source of LNG from the United States will add diversity to the British energy sector, Cameron said. The deal, for an initial 20 years, is between...
The public comment period for the US DOE’s “2012 LNG Export Study” recently closed leaving the DOE with the task of reviewing thousands of initial comments and reply comments. Under existing US law, the DOE must now decide whether approving additional LNG export projects is in the...
Global energy and metals consultancy firm Woods Mackenzie has today said that gas demand in Europe will remain weak even as that of the U.S., China and the Middle East increases. In a presentation given at the FLAME 2013 conference in Amsterdam today, the consultancy's Head of Gas & Power Research...
Engineers at Halliburton Co. believe they may be on the cusp of a major breakthrough in hydraulic fracturing that could quench the practice's insatiable thirst for water. During the annual IHS CERA Week convention happening here, the oil field services giant announced the launch of a suite of technologies...
Thank heavens the natural gas industry is capable of changing course, according to Jean Abiteboul, Senior Vice President, International, Cheniere Energy Inc., who spoke at the European Gas Conference in Vienna, Austria about the future of global LNG movements, and how his company hopes to capitalize upon them.
There is a new trans-Atlantic partnership budding between Washington and Berlin, one based on a mutual interest in energy security and securing adequate supplies of what will be the leading fuel powering their economies in the 21st Century: natural gas. The shale gas revolution in the United States...
