The U.S. Bureau of Land Management raised $7.19 million on March 26 in a federal lease sale for oil and natural drilling in Utah, Kallanish Energy reports. A total of 111 parcels totaling 148,950 acres were offered, with 90 sold in the agency’s Canyon Country, Green River and West Desert districts. Those 90 parcels covered 135,123 acres.
Read More...The planned Nigeria-to-Morocco natural gas pipeline (NMGP) faces a myriad of challenges and is “unlikely to materialize in the short or medium-term,” Kallanish Energy learns from analysts at Fitch Solutions Macro Research. The 5,660-kilometer (3,516-mile) combined onshore and offshore pipeline would cross 13 countries along the West African coast, delivering Nigerian gas to Morocco. Following an agreement in December 2016,
Read More...U.S. natural gas usage jumped 10% in 2018, to a record 82.1 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d), the Energy Information Administration reported. Domestic consumption of natural gas increased across all sectors in 2018, led by a 3.8 Bcf/d increase in the electric power sector, due to a combination of recent natural
Read More...Argentina’s government has decided to change the country’s subsidy program for unconventional gas development leaving projects in limbo, Kallanish Energy learns from local producers YPF and Pampa Energia. The program, aimed at stimulating investments in the development and production of shale gas, offered companies a subsidy since 2013. Specifically, companies were offered a
Read More...Oil and gas production in the UK is set to grow over future decades, as a report published Monday by the British Oil and Gas Authority (Oga) shows higher projections than previously released offered, Kallanish Energy learns. Last year’s increase in both oil and gas production was 4%, or 1.7 million barrels of oil-equivalent per day
Read More...President Trump’s April 10 Executive Orders are the directives which, as the President said “ends the war on American energy.” One order primarily takes the shackles off energy infrastructure (pipelines) construction, while the second mandates the Environmental Protection Agency to review/modify an “outdated” section of the Clean Water Act that requires applicants
Read More...Environmental Justice for Whom? Pennsylvania Goes PC! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. [Editor’s Note: Environmental justice is a completely phony concept that does precisely nothing for the intended beneficiaries and, in fact, only makes it harder to help them.] Government is nothing if not faddish; that is to say vulnerable to those
Read More...China, Having Bought Out Biden, Is Playing Climate with Us! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. [Editor’s Note: China can be beaten at everything but, with compromised Joe Biden in charge, the Chinese Communist Party is implying playing stupid climates games with America.] If you do not regularly read JoNova, you are missing
Read More...Blather Here, Blather There, Nothing Between Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. [Editor’s Note: Blather is the state of PR today and it’s a direct result of corporate America falling into a political correctness trap that ends with a copier in the woods.] I recently came across a story some of you may
Read More...Corporatism Is the Disease and Truth and Speech Are the Cures Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Corporatism, the merger of business and government, is rampant today and impacts every aspect of our daily lives. It will only be beaten with truth and speech. Author Joel Klotkin truly gets it. Writing in his
Read More...Climate Speech Control Not Working and Skepticism Grows! Robert Bradley Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research Principal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog…. .… … [Editor’s Note: Joe Manchin is driving Democrats nuts. Democrat climate crusaders who hoped to grift and grow power from it are angered by Machin worrying about inflation.] The
Read More...Climate Speech Control Not Working and Skepticism Grows! Robert Bradley Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy Research Principal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog…. .… … [Editor’s Note: The left wants us to sit down and shut up. It hates climate debate and wants to claim the mantle of science strictly for itself as
Read More...Chinese Communists Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Totalitarianism has arrived and free speech is being erased by the actions of an unholy alliance of news organizations and a corrupt government and plutocracy. Whoever thought it would get this bad this quickly? Sunday morning we learned Southwest Airlines pilots had exercised their power not
Read More...China’s Sinopec is said to be ready to push development and investments towards the hydrogen supply chain, seeking leadership in future energy sources, Kallanish Energy reports. The giant oil refiner reportedly said on Thursday, during its earnings call, that it would “reallocate some of our resources all along the hydrogen chain.” The strategy is “a
Read More...Chinese demand for natural gas is expected to grow by 10% year-on-year this winter, as a Covid-19 recovery spurs higher residential and industrial consumption, state oil companies said on Thursday. Presenting at a gas seminar in Beijing, the companies said demand during the 2020/21 peak winter season is estimated at 148 billion cubic meters (Bcm),
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