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Energy / Natural Gas

This Week in Energy: Senatorial Plea for Fast Action on LNG Exports

Jul 12, 2013 at 13:03 | James Stafford

Energy funding proposals and rejections this week in DC as Republicans attempt (unsuccessfully to slash and burn; more money for uranium enrichment at home; a desperate senatorial plea for fast…

The “Mexico Explosion” in Natural Gas

Jul 08, 2013 at 17:23 | Keith Schaefer

The U.S. shale boom has an unexpected new beneficiary:  Mexico.In our last story, we reported on how Mexican demand for U.S. gas exports increased by 92% over…

Shale Revolution Scuppered Gazprom’s $1 Trillion Dream

Jul 02, 2013 at 17:00 | Charles Kennedy

In 2007 Alexei Miller, close friend of President Vladimir Putin, was CEO of the world’s third largest company by market value, Gazprom, worth around $360 billion, and he had vowed…

Mexican Answer to US Natural Gas Slump

Jul 01, 2013 at 17:04 | Charlotte Dudley

Natural gas futures fell to their lowest price in 16 weeks in New York on 27 June, as stockpiles were up higher than expected and demand remains sluggish.We’re…

A Surprising New Twist in the U.S. Natural Gas Market

Jul 01, 2013 at 17:02 | Keith Schaefer

The U.S. natural gas market may be on the verge of a big swing. And it’s not about the talk of the town, Liquid Natural Gas (LNG).

Will Shale Gas Eventually Make Turkey Energy Independent?

Jul 01, 2013 at 16:58 | John Daly

Turkey’s booming economy faces one major constraint – a lack of hydrocarbon resources.At least up to now.The U.S. government’s Energy Information Administration notes in its report…

Nabucco is Dealt Another Blow as Azeri Gas to Use TAP Pipeline

Jul 01, 2013 at 16:52 | RFE/RL staff

Ten years ago, hopes were high there would be a major pipeline connecting Europe directly to the gas fields of the Caspian Basin and the Middle East. The…

REGULATORY ALERTS – Noble in Cyprus & Gazprom Withdraws from Greece

Jun 28, 2013 at 15:48 | Editorial Dept

Noble Seals Cyprus LNG Terminal DealLast week, Cyprus approved a deal with Houston-based Noble Energy Inc. (NBL) and its Israeli partners (Delek Drilling LP and Avner Oil Exploration…

European Resistance to Gazprom is Futile

Jun 26, 2013 at 16:49 | Daniel J. Graeber

Russian energy company Gazprom said it was looking to get a liquefied natural gas facility launched on the Baltic Sea within the next five years. It's already sending natural gas…

Israel Approves 40% Gas Exports, But to Where?

Jun 26, 2013 at 16:45 | Charles Kennedy

Balancing public pressure to keep the bulk of new gas reserves at home with foreign investor pressure to set a high cap on exports, the Israeli government has put a…

Natural Gas Discoveries in the Eastern Med Reignite Old Rivalries

Jun 26, 2013 at 16:43 | ISN Security Watch

The discovery of natural gas has complicated rivalries in the eastern Mediterranean, an area already full of long-standing security issues.Among those to have issued assertive statements of intent…

Exxon Seeks Approval for Massive Canadian LNG Plan

Jun 25, 2013 at 16:46 | Charles Kennedy

ExxonMobil is hoping to get the green light from Canada’s National Energy board to export 30 million tons liquefied natural gas (LNG) per year and build a new export terminal…

Why Israel may Rue the Decision to Export Limited Natural Gas Reserves

Jun 25, 2013 at 16:43 | Kurt Cobb

As the United States contemplates exporting natural gas to the rest of the world, previously energy-poor Israel seems about to jump on the export bandwagon. The current government is…

EIA report - U.S. #1 in Shale Gas Reserves, Russia #1 in Shale Oil Reserves

Jun 21, 2013 at 17:14 | John Daly

The U.S. government’s Energy Information Agency (EIA) is a treasure trove of useful data for those willing to navigate its less than friendly website.The most interesting report to…

Behind the Numbers in the Surging Global LNG Market

Jun 20, 2013 at 16:59 | Keith Schaefer

Underneath all the recent excitement over Canada's LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) market is a seldom-discussed reality check... But first the exciting part—investors now have heightened interest in Canada's…

Natural Gas Demand Set to Grow more Slowly until 2018

Jun 20, 2013 at 16:48 | Robert M Cutler

The Paris-based International Energy Agenda (IEA), founded in 1973-74 by the advanced industrialized countries in the wake of the Arab oil embargo, has published projections according to which the share…

Discussing US LNG Exports with the President of the CLNG

Jun 20, 2013 at 16:47 | Matt Smith

The recent posts here on the burrito about LNG exports seem to have struck a chord with the energy community; features across various sites have yielded positive feedback,…

Steelmakers Take Advantage of Cheap Natural Gas Prices in the US

Jun 20, 2013 at 16:42 | Stuart Burns

As many will tell you, there have been and will continue to be winners and losers in the metals industry from the lower gas prices that shale gas has created.

US Shale Revolution, Staggering Global Potential

Jun 19, 2013 at 17:05 | Charles Kennedy

The US may be the only country undergoing a shale revolution, but it doesn’t have the biggest shale oil and gas reserves in the world. The global shale…

Angola and Brazil Work Together on LNG Production

Jun 19, 2013 at 17:00 | John Daly

Miniscule Portugal in the 15th century used its Atlantic coastline to establish a global empire, which included Brazil, Angola, Mozambique and even Macao in far-off China.Five centuries later,…

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