Suggesting that renewables will let us phase rapidly off fossil fuels in the United States, China, India, or the world as a whole is almost the equivalent of believing in…
Category: Oil and Gas
Energy Reality Forces Tech to Ditch Climate Virtue Signaling
The lesson is the same for data centers and households: Prosperity requires electricity that is available when needed. Dependable systems of conventional energy sources will continue to power the tech…
Climate Alarmists Are Making False Claims to Derail Approval of Jackdaw and Rosebank
Both the Rosebank and Jackdaw oil and gas fields have had a chequered history. Both were discovered in the mid-2000s and were initially approved for development in 2023 and 2022,…
UK Energy Schizophrenia (all pain, no gain)
The North Sea discussion falsely blames geology rather than government intervention for the decline in North Sea production. Back in the 1970s, the U.S. self-sabotaged its domestic oil and gas…
Climate Regulations Crushed Western Oil Refineries. Now Goldman Sachs Predicts a Diesel Crisis
“… EU climate regulations forced energy companies to shut down refining capacity in anticipation of demand destruction that has yet to materialize. …”
Federal Oil and Gas Well Bonding: Undoing Biden
Imposing high bonding requirements across the board does little to protect taxpayers or the environment and ties up capital in unproductive ways. In fact, as some states have ratcheted up…
California is running out of refineries – and running out of time
California is not proactively supporting the reanimating of the closed Valero Refinery in Benicia or the closed Phillips Refinery in Wilmington. In addition, California government is not making the necessary…
The 1970s Oil Crisis: Never Forget
From MasterResource By Robert Bradley Jr. Ed. Note: This week marks the 55th anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s 90-day wage and price order of August 15, 1971. With extensions, maximum…
Washington Lit the Fuse for Africa’s Energy Explosion
The boy in Cabo Delgado and the girl in Rivers State are the first generation with a plausible route out of poverty their grandparents never had, and that pathway runs…
Indonesia and India Are Jointly Planning a Hydrocarbon-Powered Future
The India-Indonesia trade relationship is dismissing the apocalyptic fantasy of the climate industrial complex and committing to secure the energy sources that people need to improve their lives.
North Sea Shutdown to Cost Treasury Billions
The Treasury faces a £13 billion hit from Labour’s ‘green’ North Sea shutdown, BP’s former finance chief has warned. The Telegraph has the story.
China’s Great Wall of Fossil Fuels
Instead of focusing on China’s shiny clean energy activities—which, while impressive in scale, remain largely additive rather than transformative—the developed world, particularly Europe, should take a page out of China’s…
India To Climate Cartel: Count Us Out
A country that the entire architecture of climate financing is supposedly built to help just declined to host the party. If climate summits worked as advertised, that would be unthinkable.…
The Impending Collapse of California’s Transportation Fuel Infrastructure
The 4th largest economy in the world is becoming a National Security Risk for America.
What Climate Crisis? Indonesia Taps Fossil Fuels
Jakarta is engineering a spectacular revival, rejecting the economic suicide of Western climate mandates to reclaim its energy sovereignty and resurrect its historical blueprint for prosperity.
Meet Tessa Khan, the Climate Activist-Litigator Waging War on North Sea Oil and Gas
The UK’s energy policy is too important – and the costs of getting it wrong too severe for ordinary working people – to be delegated to the climate litigation class.…
Another California refinery closure will threaten national and global economies
Jet fuel from refineries based in foreign countries face monumental logistical challenges to keep California airports open.
Water, Water Everywhere: Maximizing Oil Field Produced Water Use in West Texas
It is time for Texas leaders to come together to desalinate produced water; reduce disposed water volumes and earthquakes; sustain a cotton industry while providing relief to the Ogallala aquifer;…