Guest post by David Middleton Well… It’s the largest draw “on record”… Since 2010… Glossary Mcf : Thousand cubic feet ~ 1 million btu (mmbtu) Bcf : Billion cubic feet…
Category: natural gas
Trump Administration to open 90% of US Offshore to leasing and roll back Obama-era drilling regulations
Guest post by David Middleton The plan is to open almost everything in the 2019-2024 OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program, with Eastern Gulf leasing beginning when the Congressional moratorium expires…
CO2-Consuming Fossil Fuel Combustion
Guest post by David Middleton “The CDCL process is the most advanced and cost-effective approach to carbon capture we have reviewed to date and are committed to supporting its commercial…
“Offshore drilling is not a fit for Florida”… It doesn’t have to fit in Florida.
Guest post by David Middleton The gray area on the map below is basically off limits to oil & gas operations. It’s right next to the Central Gulf of Mexico…
Monumental, Unsustainable Environmental Impacts
Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy would inflict major land, wildlife, resource damage Paul Driessen Demands that the world replace fossil fuels with wind, solar and biofuel energy – to…
US Court Rejects EPA Attempt to Delay Obama Era Methane Regulations
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has rejected a motion to delay implementation of Obama era methane emission laws…
"The Answer to What's Actually Killing Coal" Is "Not Even Wrong"
Guest post by David Middleton From Inverse via Real Clear Energy: The Answer to What’s Actually Killing Coal is Hopeful and Depressing The real cause of the decline of coal…
Can the U.S. Become the Saudi Arabia of Natural Gas?
Guest post by David Middleton The Department of Energy gave a Texas-based energy company permission Tuesday to export liquefied natural gas (LNG) to countries with which the U.S. does not…
The Resurgence of the American Coal Industry, Part Deux: An Unexpected Ally
Coal’s Unexpected Ally: Natural Gas Guest post by David Middleton I concluded my previous coal post, The Resurgence of the American Coal Industry, with the following: The U.S. coal industry is…
The Resurgence of the American Coal Industry
Guest post by David Middleton America’s Biggest Coal Miner Is Joining the Comeback Under Trump by Tim Loh April 3, 2017, 4:28 PM CDT April 4, 2017, 1:14 PM CDT…
Green Craziness: Deepening Aussie Energy Crisis
Guest essay by Eric Worrall A combination of green inspired state moratoria on gas exploration, coupled with growing gas export capacity, and politically motivated closures of coal plants, has created…
Oil – Where did it come from?
Guest post by David Middleton Introduction I am a petroleum geologist/geophysicist with about 36 years of experience in oil & gas exploration mostly in the Gulf of Mexico. In light…
Japan Leading an Unprecedented Oil and Gas Asset Buying Spree
Guest essay by Eric Worrall OilPrice.com reports that Private Equity firms and Japanese energy giants are ramping up to an unprecedented buying frenzy, snapping up shale assets in the USA…
"Forget Godzilla, NYC Gets Monster-Sized 'Virtual' Solar Power Plant"
Guest post by David Middleton 1.8 MW and 4 MWh of storage… Godzilla? Not even Ant-Man. The Brooklyn Navy Yard Cogeneration combined cycle natural gas-fired power plant generates over 150,000…
Politico: 40% Surge in Orders for New Ice Hardened Petroleum Transporters
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Politico reports that Finland’s Ship Building Industry is experiencing a bumper year, as Paris Climate Agreement signatories celebrate the new global environmental accord, by massively…
Good news! Coal bankruptcies point to a better future for our climate
By Larry Kummer. From the Fabius Maximus website. Summary: The bankruptcy of the world’s largest non-government-owned coal company illustrates one of the two big weaknesses in the nightmarish climate…
RCP 8.5: The "Mother of all" Junk Climate Science
Guest post by David Middleton Featured image borrowed from here. Nearly every catastrophic global warming doomsday scenario, particularity those involving icecap failures and Noah-size sea level rises are based on…
A Solar Power Plant vs. A Natural Gas Power Plant: Capital Cost – Apples to Apples
Guest essay by Philip Dowd Here is a simple example that illustrates why current solar technology will be hard-pressed to replace existing carbon-fired power plants. Let’s suppose that a power…
What Powers The Electricity?
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There is a generator-by-generator analysis of the US power supply for 2012, called “eGrid”, available here as an Excel file. I’ve aggregated the data by fuel…
Russian Power Assets Attacked – How long will the Trans-Siberian Pipeline last?
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Power pylons supplying regions of the Crimean have been blown up, causing significant economic disruption to disputed territory currently occupied by Russian backed Ukrainian rebels.…
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