The U.S. energy revolution that’s taken place since 2000 catapulted the country to become the global leader in petroleum, including oil, and natural gas production in 2018, according to a recent report from the Energy Information Administration: “Last year’s increase in the United States was one of the largest absolute petroleum and natural gas production
Read More...ExxonMobil Asia Pacific has signed a two-year time charter agreement with Singapore-based Sinanju Tankers Holdings Pte. Ltd. to lease Singapore’s first liquefied natural gas (LNG)-powered bunker tanker, Sinanju said, in a statement Friday, Kallanish Energy reports. The 7,990 deadweight tonnage (dwt) new build will be the first LNG bunker tanker for Singapore and Sinanju and
Read More...Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Natural Gas NOW readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. As usual, emphasis is added. It Doesn’t Fit, So You Must Quit Pennsylvania’s Department of Conservation and Natural Resources just spent your tax
Read More...U.S. exports of liquefied natural gas reached a new peak of 4.7 billion cubic feet per day in May, according to the latest data from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Office of Fossil Energy, Kallanish Energy reports. This year, the U.S. became the world’s third-largest Lng exporter, averaging 4.2 Bcf/d in the first five months of the
Read More...The United States is increasingly meeting its own energy needs thanks to American natural gas, new federal data show. Ninety percent of the natural gas used in the United States last year was produced here, according to the Energy Information Administration. For the first time since 1966, the nation experienced back-to-back years where dry natural
Read More...In its latest attack on increased use of natural gas, Global Energy Monitor claims that liquefied natural gas “poses a direct challenge to Paris climate goals.” And despite the absurdity of such an argument – when natural gas is credited with helping decrease U.S. emissions to their lowest levels since the early 1990s – media
Read More...Following a “tectonic change” in global energy markets over the past decade from the shale revolution, “there is a bright future for natural gas,” according to American Gas Association President and CEO Karen Harbert. In a recent Columbia Energy Exchange podcast on the U.S. oil and natural gas industry and the infrastructure and regulatory challenges
Read More...Garland L. Thompson, Esq.Journalist and Author, Philadelphia Garland Thompson explains what really happened with the Gibbstown LNG deal. It reveals New Jersey duplicity more so than it does DRBC double-dealing. Let’s think again about that DRBC unanimous vote supporting New Fortress Energy’s shipping pier for its truck-mounted LNG export plan. From this vantage, it’s more
Read More...Daniel B. Markind, Esq.Flaster Greenberg PC The folly of the unilateral energy disarmament being practiced on the West Coast and in New England shows the U.S. is being made less secure by fractivism. Two attacks on oil tankers in the Strait of Hormuz have set the energy world, and the world at large, on edge. It
Read More...... … … Zero emissions claims are popular these days but they seldom pan out, as is the case with electric vehicles in Germany. CNG vehicles make a lot more sense. A study by the IFO think tank in Munich found that electric vehicles in Germany emit 11 percent to 28 percent more carbon dioxide than their diesel counterparts.
Read More...The United States – currently the third largest exporter of liquefied natural gas – will surpass Australia and Qatar to become the world’s largest exporter of LNG within five years, according to a recent International Energy Agency report. The United States Will Continue to Rapidly Grow Its LNG Exports. The United States exported nearly 1.6
Read More...Environmental activists who have cheered the ongoing power transition in the United Kingdom — which went a record 18 days and 6 hours of powering its electric grid without using coal — are overlooking an inconvenient fact for their cause. The UK was able to maintain its grid stability by increasing its use of natural
Read More...Liquefied natural gas export terminal Cameron LNG is preparing to load its first export shipment of LNG following the arrival of the first LNG tanker at its Louisiana facility, the Houston Chronicle newspaper reported. The Singapore-flagged LNG tanker Marvel Crane arrived in the Calcasieu Ship Channel early Tuesday morning where it later docked at the export
Read More...Tom ShepstoneNatural Gas NOW … … The Panama Canal is changing its rules to adapt to LNG, recognizing that American energy dominance is the foundation and future of the Canal itself. A recent article in The Panama Perspective demonstrates how the glorious shale revolution continues to change everything. It reports the Panama Canal Authority (ACP)
Read More...Keep It Grounded In Fact(American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers) EV owners are grabbing Federal and State tax dollars so wealthier folks can drive politically correct cars that run mostly on natural gas, but it’s dumb. It’s Infrastructure Week, and one of the few things that Americans can agree upon is that the country’s
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