Ohio’s top producing Utica Shale counties have collected over $530 million in real estate property taxes from oil and natural gas activity since 2010, according to the latest data from county auditors compiled by the Ohio Natural Energy Institute (ONEi). This is just one of the data points highlighting how essential the Ohio oil and
2024 was another record-breaking year for the U.S. oil and natural gas industry. From production to consumption to providing energy security for our allies abroad and reducing emissions – energy producers delivered. This was all accomplished despite significant hurdles, like the politically motivated pause on LNG export permits, restricted federal leasing and increased costs for
Methane emissions from the country’s top oil and gas-producing basins have fallen 44 percent since 2011, according to data from the Environmental Protection Agency. This plunge in emissions comes even as the country has managed to shatter energy production records – the United States produced more crude oil than any nation at any time for
With less than a month before election day, California Governor Gavin Newsom signed new refinery supply mandates into law, threatening to hike gas prices not just in California, where prices now top $4.68/gallon, but also in swing neighboring states like Arizona and Nevada. The bill, which was introduced in a special session convened by the
Click here for a shareable sheet on how the court’s decision on the National Marine Fisheries Service’s Biological Opinion (BiOp) could impact US energy production. In August 2024, a U.S. district court ruled in favor of environmental groups in a pivotal court case for energy production in the Gulf of Mexico. The ruling in this
The U.K.’s new chancellor, Rachell Reeves, recently announced that the windfall tax (formally known as the Energy Profits Levy) will be increased to 38 percent (up from 35 percent) on November 1, bringing the rate of tax on upstream oil and gas activities to 78 percent. The tax will also be extended to 31 March
Ahead of the two-year anniversary of the implementation of the United Kingdom’s windfall tax, Energy in Depth examines its continued negative impact on the North Sea oil and gas sector. As EID has previously discussed, the windfall tax (formally known as the Energy Profits Levy) was introduced in May 2022 and increased from its
Last week at the World Energy Congress, a global event hosting thousands of the world’s most important energy stakeholders in the Netherlands, executives, experts, and diplomats all repeated the same message: the world needs to lower carbon emissions without compromising the supply of oil and natural gas. Whilst oil and natural gas is diversifying, millions
With calls for a rapid and disorderly fossil fuel phase-out making headlines as we enter into COP28, a timely research report from Carbon Tracker shows just how dangerous such a transition would be for the Global South. Carbon Tracker, an energy transition think-tank, has today released a research report Petrostates Of Decline which finds that
Biden Shamelessly Attacks Oil and Gas on Over 150 Fronts! … … [Editor’s Note: Joe Biden has relentlessly attacked the American consumer by relentlessly attacking oil and gas. Scan this IER list for the more than 150 ways in just 970 days.] Joe Biden and Democrats have a plan for American energy: make it harder
Penn College (and Other Great Schools) Earn Coterra Support! George Stark Director, External Affairs Coterra Energy … .. [Editor’s Note: Coterra Energy has been a huge vocational education supporter and the amazing Penn College is one of several schools to earn financial support from the company.] Coterra is a staunch advocate of career and technology
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – July 22, 2023 Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy. This week: green jobs that cost $7.7 million each to create, the big lie about the
The United Kingdom is gearing up for a general election, predicated to take place in late 2024. With current polling suggesting the Labour Party is favoured to win, one topic is taking center stage: the energy transition and the future of North Sea oil and natural gas development. Labour sees clear scope to win political
Watching the Ohio Oil & Gas Land Management Commission’s June meeting on leasing the state’s mineral rights and recent coverage of a related protest is like taking a time machine back to 2013. Fortunately, many of the concerns raised about fracking, produced water management and other related issues are ones that have been put to