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Energy / Natural Gas

The Battle for Balcombe

Aug 16, 2013 at 18:23 | Daniel J. Graeber

British energy company Cuadrilla Resources issued an apology last week to the residents of Balcombe, a village in West Sussex near the British coast. Campaigners flocked to the region by…

Can the US Export its Way to Energy Independence?

Aug 16, 2013 at 18:18 | Kurt Cobb

Never let the facts get in the way of a good story. That's the credo of the oil and gas industry as it continues to lobby for increased oil and…

Getting European Gas to Ukraine

Aug 16, 2013 at 17:49 | Editorial Dept

Bottom Line: The EU is hoping to get as many countries on board to transit natural gas to Ukraine, and while Hungary and Poland are already involved, the next in…

BG Group Gets US LNG Export Approval

Aug 09, 2013 at 17:44 | Charles Kennedy

BG Group (LON:BG) and Southern Union are the third to get the green light from the federal government to export LNG to all countries from a planned facility in Lake…

Canada's Offshore Versus Shale Gas

Aug 09, 2013 at 17:39 | Dave Forest

Natural gas from Canada's offshore east coast is finally coming to market.Last week, regulators issued an Operations Authorization for the Deep Panuke gas project, offshore Nova Scotia. Project…

This Week in Energy: Another move forward on US LNG exports

Aug 09, 2013 at 08:41 | James Stafford

Another move forward on US LNG exports; what’s really behind global terror travel warnings; and the latest teasers from this week’s premium offerings. This week we are buoyed…

Gazprom Fiddles while America Fracks?

Aug 08, 2013 at 17:25 | Robert M Cutler

Gazprom still thinks that it is not sleeping through a shale gas revolution, despite President Vladimir Putin's declaration in April to the Russian parliament that shale gas is a real…

Shale Gas: Why Reality has not Lived Up to the Dream

Aug 05, 2013 at 17:11 | Dave Summers

The development of the shale gas deposits in the United States, led by the drilling and fracking of horizontal wells into the Barnett Shale of Texas at the turn…

Ukraine: The Energy To Change Course

Aug 02, 2013 at 14:49 | Scott Belinksi

Twenty-two years after breaking free from the USSR, Ukraine is now attempting to do the unthinkable and permanently shake Russia’s hold on the country. The plan? Looking westward to the…

$1 Billion of Natural Gas Wasted in North Dakota through Flaring in 2012

Jul 31, 2013 at 16:50 | Joao Peixe

Flaring is a problem in the US fracking industry, especially in North Dakota, but the true extent of that problem has not been fully understood until the release of a…

UPS Pursues LNG Vehicle Shift

Jul 30, 2013 at 18:00 | James Stafford

As United Parcel Service (UPS) works to decrease its greenhouse gas emissions, the company is setting new alternative fuel goals and eyeing a 40% savings in fuel costs by switching…

What Does the Plastics Revolution Mean for Gas Producers?

Jul 29, 2013 at 16:57 | Dave Forest

It looks like the U.S. plastics revolution is upon us. Many observers have been forecasting a petro-chemical boom in America. Driven by cheap natural gas as feedstock for the industry.…

UK Releases Impressive Shale Estimates, Relaxes Tax Regime

Jul 26, 2013 at 14:56 | Editorial Dept

Bottom Line: As the UK doubles its shale reserve estimates, plans are in the works for lowering the proposed shale production tax rate by half. Analysis: The UK…

Canada’s Kitimat LNG Project Takes Another Step

Jul 25, 2013 at 17:42 | Robert M Cutler

Canada's Kitimat liquefied natural gas (LNG) project, one of ten proposed across the country, took another step towards realization this week, as respected Member of Parliament Bob Rae from the…

Russia’s Oil and Natural Gas Industry Facing Market Turmoil

Jul 24, 2013 at 15:22 | John Daly

Several years ago, the Russian Federation’s Open Joint Stock Company Gazprom had every reason to feel that it was “top of the world,” to quote James Cagney’s crazed character Cody…

What Shale Oil and Gas Can Learn from Nuclear

Jul 23, 2013 at 18:09 | Llewellyn King

The Arab oil embargo, imposed on the United States 40 years ago this fall, brought the instant chaos of gas lines, dire predictions and a new concentration of political minds…

Will the Nabucco Pipeline be Able to Make a Comeback?

Jul 23, 2013 at 17:50 | Eurasianet

Just like the protagonist in the eponymous opera, the Nabucco pipeline, the one-time leading option for carrying natural gas from Azerbaijan to Europe, has been outmaneuvered and knocked from its…

Russia Prepares To Liberalize LNG Exports

Jul 19, 2013 at 22:36 | Editorial Dept

Bottom Line: By January 2014, Russia may liberalize LNG exports currently monopolized by state-run Gazprom, in order to make room for expansion of LNG exports to the Asia-Pacific region.

10 Points to Consider in the NGV Debate

Jul 12, 2013 at 19:33 | Matt Smith

The perception of natural gas as a mainstream fuel for vehicles runs the gamut, dependent upon where you live: from the improbable…to the viable…to the everyday reality. So from recent…

DEVELOPMENT & DISCOVERY ALERTS - Dana Gas Announces Find in Egypt

Jul 12, 2013 at 13:16 | Editorial Dept

Dana Gas Announces Find in EgyptUAE-based Dana Gas on 30 June announced a significant gas discovery in Egypt’s Nile Delta, just four days before Egypt’s military stepped in…

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