In an odd turn of events this week, President Biden appeared to do a complete 180 from the previously stated White House position that the administration is using every tool in its toolbox to encourage increased U.S. oil production, as a tool to lower the price at the pump. Let’s hear the president’s seemingly new
Read More...It’s only been a few short years since the United States demonstrated that it can compete in the global oil market, and in fact, quite literally drilled its way to lower gasoline prices. Yet, with gasoline prices once again on the rise, the Biden administration continues to look beyond U.S. borders to OPEC+ to solve
Read More...There is an important and continued role for oil and natural gas parallel to the world implementing policies to increase renewable energy consumption, according to the Energy Information Administration’s 2021 International Energy Outlook. In fact, in its latest IEO, the EIA projects oil and natural gas will represent close to 50 percent of primary global
Read More...oil and gas … …[Editor’s Note: Incredibly, Joe Biden, our White House occupant, is seemingly determined to wipe out our oil and gas even as China wraps its arms around its own energy industry.] While the U.S. government is doing all it can to keep our nation’s fossil fuels in the ground, China is investing
Read More...natural gas now Tom ShepstoneShepstone 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. As usual, emphasis is added. Well, well, well… The first thing you notice is the noise – a strange, low-octave hum growing louder
Read More...AmericanEnergy Alliance …. …. [Editor’s Note: The Joe Biden puppeteers and Chinese controllers are clearly aiming to undo American energy independence and, once again, make us dependent on foreign energy.] Last week OPEC+ talks on oil production quotas for member nations stalled and, as a result, oil prices rose. The Biden administration is somewhat concerned
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...Nonfossil Jim Willis on NGL PipelinesEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: EIA data shows nonfossil fuels have not made a significant dent in the complete dominance of fossil fuels energy sources and wind and solar aren’t even close] Is our favorite government agency, the U.S. Energy Information Administration, being corrupted by the Biden White
Read More...The construction of a major pipeline replacement project that would carry crude from Canadian oilfields to a refinery in Wisconsin got a major boost on Thursday from the Biden Administration. According to the New York Times, the administration is siding with a prior permitting decision by the Army Corps of Engineers: “Mr. Biden could still
Read More...America’s hard-fought energy superpower status could be faltering after data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) showed that crude oil imports rose sharply in the past week, while exports fell. EIA’s Weekly Petroleum Status Report said: “U.S. crude oil imports averaged 6.9 million barrels per day last week, up by 197,000 barrels per day
Read More...Jim WillisEditor & Publisher, Marcellus Drilling News (MDN) [Editor’s Note: The Adelphia Gateway Pipeline project to convert an oil pipeline to gas has received FERC permission to complete construction. About time!] New Jersey Resources’ Adelphia Gateway project is a plan to convert an old oil pipeline stretching from Northampton County, Pennsylvania through Bucks, Montgomery, and Chester counties,
Read More...Just a few weeks after moderate Democrats in the California state legislature stopped legislation that would have phased in a fracking ban, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D) announced his own plan to ban not only fracking, but eventually all oil and natural gas development in the state. This sort of aggressive opposition to safe domestic development
Read More...Three months after President Biden signed an executive order revoking construction permits for Keystone XL pipeline, more consequences of his decision are becoming clear. The revocation cheered by environmental activists removes a critical means for safely transporting the kind of Canadian crude oil that U.S. refineries on the Gulf Coast are designed to process, leaving
Read More...It’s no secret that New Mexico is in a bind. From the Biden administration’s efforts to ban new permits and leases on federal land, to the New Mexico legislature’s move to place a ban on new hydraulic fracturing permits on state lands during this legislative session, there’s an all-out assault against the state’s energy industry.
Read More...During the second day of her confirmation hearing to serve as Interior Secretary, Rep. Deb Haaland (D-N.M.) definitively said that the Biden administration’s “pause” on oil and natural gas permitting and leasing on federal lands won’t become a permanent policy. After again being repeatedly pressed by members of the U.S. Senate Energy & Natural Resources
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