Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, August 26, 1922! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today. I thought it might be fun and illuminating to look back 100
Read More...Irish Fracking Blarney Shows Why the West Is Dying Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Ray Kemble has gone to Ireland to oppose a LNG terminal, Irish fracking and everything natural gas. Who’s paying him to offer up his baseless assertions? Imagine my surprise to learn from my good friend Jim Willis this
Read More...Natural Gas Is No Transition Fuel: It’s A Catalyst Fuel! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. It’s a catalyst fuel, not a transitional or bridge fuel, says Nick Deiuliis, referring to natural gas as he challenges a premises of the industry’s enemies. Nick Deiuliis has done some amazing things at CNX Resources, but
Read More...The United States officially took the title of the world’s top liquefied natural gas exporter in the first half of 2022, according to recent data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Amidst a global energy crisis that has seen countries across Europe look for alternative sources of energy, the United States exported an average of
Read More...Energy exports from the United States are securing Europe’s energy future and will only continue to grow following the European Parliament’s vote to classify certain uses of natural gas as a green, or a climate-friendly, energy source, in its taxonomy of sustainable activities. The vote is a tidal shift in Europe’s view of natural gas,
Read More...Chester LNG Project About Jobs and Real Economic Justice Garland L. Thompson, Esq. Journalist and Author, Philadelphia PennEast [Editor’s Note: Industry is not the enemy of the people – It’s the avenue of jobs that power the economy and deliver true justice of the economic sort, not the emotional.] Invidious comparisons do not make for
Read More...Pipelines Jim Willis on NGL PipelinesEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Pipelines are needed to ensure energy supplies and avoid the crisis Europe has brought upon itself but elitist special interests have connived to thwart them.] According to a Bloomberg article, the energy crisis that’s led to electricity shortages and blackouts in Europe and
Read More...political correctness Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Political correctness is a breeze at the outset but extremely costly in the end, as Europe is learning the hard way. Green energy has become a fool’s errand. Political correctness is conformance to the desires, mores and whims of those who imagine they get to set
Read More...American LNG exports to Europe are all the more essential since dwindling natural gas stockpiles and lower-than-anticipated wind generation have caused energy prices to spike. Energy prices in Europe and the United Kingdom are surging in the wake of a shortage of natural gas and have reached levels not seen in a decade. This has
Read More...The Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) recently published a report on a new liquefied natural gas facility near Lake Charles, LA. But the report’s claims are based on assumptions about the LNG market that are categorically unreliable and unsupported by recent data on U.S. and global LNG trends. IEEFA, which draws its
Read More...Despite a drop in global energy demand due to COVID-19, natural gas emerged from the pandemic in a position of strength, according to BP’s recently released 2021 Statistical Review. As the report explains, global primary energy demand fell by 4.5 percent in 2020 – the largest decline since World War II. Yet, natural gas performed
Read More...Nonfossil Jim Willis on NGL PipelinesEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: Pennsylvania has the Northeast in its hands if it will develop its resources to become the energy hub needed. Pipelines are the key to realizing it all.] Charlie Melançon is a former U.S. Congressman (Democrat) from Louisiana who played an integral role in
Read More...Affordable natural gas has already helped the United States dramatically lower greenhouse gas emissions and the nation should continue exporting the fuel to help allies around the world meet their own climate goals, according to former Energy Secretaries Ernest Moniz and Dan Brouillette. Speaking at a recent forum, the two former secretaries – one Democratic
Read More...germany … …[Editor’s Note: Biden caves to Putin and a Germany now desperate for natural gas due to the huge failure of its Energiewende version of the green new deal.] President Biden is treating a European pipeline and a North American pipeline very differently—one is a natural gas pipeline from Russia to Germany, Nord Stream
Read More...Cheniere, one of the leading U.S. LNG companies, announced its first “carbon neutral shipment” to Europe this week after a tanker left Cheniere’s Sabine Pass export terminal in Louisiana and travelled across the Atlantic to supply Shell as part of the two companies’ long-term LNG contract. Unlike a standard LNG cargo, Cheniere’s “carbon neutral” shipment
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