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…
Category: natural gas
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.…
The economics of the madhouse
The Children’s Coalition’s insane war on natural gas By Christopher Monckton of Brenchley On the very evening when the first October snow in 74 years was falling outside in Parliament…
Claim: Cheap energy stimulates the economy too much – Natural Gas will not reduce CO2
Eric Worrall writes: A new study published in Nature has revealed that switching to cheap Natural Gas will not reduce CO2 significantly, because all that cheap energy will stimulate the…
Study: Fracked shale gas impacts have positive and negative benefits, but there's no reason not to make it part of the energy mix
From The University of Manchester: Fracking’s environmental impacts scrutinised Greenhouse gas emissions from the production and use of shale gas would be comparable to conventional natural gas, but the controversial…
Analysis: Solar & wind power costs are huge compared to natural gas fired generation
Ed Hoskins has done an analysis of cost ratios, and no matter what your viewpoint of economics might be, the numbers here don’t lie. Without being propped up by subsidies,…
Newsbytes – U.S. Democrats Embrace Shale Boom Ahead of Midterm Elections
From the GWPF and Dr. Benny Peiser World Awash In Oil Shields Markets From 2008 Price Shock The US shale boom is shaping a new kind of Democrat in national…
Quakes, Fracking, Hysteria, and Energy Independence
From Cornell University , another one of the numerous studies that tries to make fracking (via wastewater products) look bad because it is claimed to cause small earthquakes as far…
Richard Muller: 'shale gas technology should be advanced as rapidly as possible'
by Richard Muller, Professor of Physics, University of Califoria at Berkeley Some oppose shale gas because it is a fossil fuel, a source of carbon dioxide. Some are concerned by…
More Fun with Oil and Gas
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach Well, having had such a good time with M. King Hubbert meeting the EIA, I thought I’d toss out another puzzle. This one is inspired…
Natural gas switch from coal brings power plant emissions down
From the University of Colorado at Boulder New study: US power plant emissions down Power plants that use natural gas and a new technology to squeeze more energy from the…
Canadian Tragedy
Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach I was saddened to read this morning that a train with a load of crude oil derailed and caught fire in Lac-Mégantic, Canada, and I…
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