By Allen Brooks on October 10, 2011
What The World Needs Now Is Not Love, But A Bio-bike! NPC Is Extremely Optimistic About Natural Gas, If… How Green Energy Can Be Used To Hammer Business Italian Scientists On Trial; Should All Scientists Worry? Our Favorite Energy Indicators In The News Rhode Island Pushes To Expand Renewable Energy Sector Energy And Private Equity […]
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By Allen Brooks on September 26, 2011
Marcellus Shale Resources: “Just one more thing…” Is Capital Discipline Re-emerging In The Natural Gas Market? Who To Believe About Global Warming – Gore Or Polls? Rhode Island Wind May Be Establishing A New Record Cold Regions Could Suffer Environmentally From Bulb Ban The Farce Of Green Jobs Depends On How You Define Them Driving […]
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By Allen Brooks on September 13, 2011
Trying To Solve Mystery Of Missing Marcellus Resource Whither The Direction Of Natural Gas Markets In Job Search Obama Keeps Targeting Green Job Potentia World Wind Energy Market Continues To Grow Can A Government’s Business Policy Screw Up A Market? read more
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged Brazil ethanol, Brookings Institute, clean jobs, E100, EIA, Form 914 gas production, gas shale reserves, gas shale resources, green jobs, horizontal rig count, Marcellus Shale, Marcellus Shale Coalition, Mus, natural gas prices, Petrobras, USGS, wind energy, World Wind Energy Association
By Allen Brooks on August 29, 2011
Marcellus Shale: The Glass Half Empty Or Only Half Full? Obama Backs Electric Vehicles – Public Grows Skeptical Racing Irene To Rhode Island – Quick Thoughts Obama Plans Reorganization Of Climate Change Initiative Slowing Global Growth Portends Pressure On Oil Prices UK Power Market Encounters True Cost Of Green Energy Another Bad Sign For Energy […]
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged 2011 and 2012 automobile output estimates, A123 Systems, advanced batteries, Baker Institute, BYD, Chevy Volt, China car industry, climate service reorganization, CNW Marketing Research, EIA, electric vehicles, Ford, GM, green jobs, HIS Automotive, INTEK, J.D. Power & Associates, Johnson Controls, Ken Medlock, Marcellus Shale, Musings From the Oil Patch, Nissan Leaf, NOAA budget, plug-in vehicles, shale gas, Terry Engelder, USGS, Wood Mackenzie
By Allen Brooks on August 16, 2011
The Value Of Shale Gas Is In The Eye Of The Beholder High Speed Rail Aim Skips Fastest Growing Transport Sector Does Gore’s Climate Change Rant Signal Movement’s End? New Auto Efficiency Standards Arrive As Oil Prices Collapse Incandescent Light Bulb Ban Nears As New Types Appear U.S. Credit Downgrade Unleashes Doubts About Growth Energy […]
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged 2017-2025 CAFE standards, Al Gore, Amtrak, Aspen Institute, CFL, Chesapeake Energy, Chinese high speed train accident, CHK, climate change, electric vehicles, EV Energy Partners, EVEP, gas shale economics, global warming, green jobs, high-speed rail, hybrids, Hydro One, incandescent light bulbs, intercity buses, LED, miniFIT, Musings From the Oil Patch, Ontario renewable energy policy, plug-in hybrids, solar power, unemployment, US credit downgrade and economic growth, US GDP, Utica shale acreage values
By Allen Brooks on August 1, 2011
Gas Shale Debate May Be Moving To Next Higher Stage Marcellus Impact Study Rests On Some Shaky Assumptions Are You Smarter Than A GPS? Thoughts About The Changing Future Of Gas Shales Is RFK Jr.’s Attack On Mass. Wind Farm Act of Desperation? Shell U.S. President Warns Of Environmental Lawsuit Danger The Innovators In The […]
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged 3D seismic, Barnett Shale, BOEMRE, Cameron International, Cape Wind, Captain America, China Oilfield Services, Davy Crockett, disruptive innovators, EPA, FMC Technologies, Gas shale, gas shale producers, green energy subsidies, Gulf of Mexico, gurgling, Halliburton, innovative stock market premium, Jr., Marcellus Shale, motor homes, Musings From the Oil Patch, Offshore wind, passive seismic listening, Robert F. Kennedy, Schlumberger, SEC, Shell Oil US, Tenaris, travel trailers, truck traffic, Ultra Petroleum
By Allen Brooks on July 19, 2011
Gas Shale Debate Creates Strange Producer Economic Analysis Al ‘An Inconvenient Truth’ Gore Returns To Climate Stage EPA Pollution Rules Drive Energy Market Transformation Gas Shales And Chesapeake’s Bold Investment Move Economy Struggles With Serious Issues – Energy Impact? Divergent Views On Future Of Auto Industry Greening Economy Has To Pick More Vs. Less Green […]
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged Al Gore, Alliance for Climate Protection, Amazon.com, auto industry, Boone Pickens, cars per 100 people, Chesapeake Energy, China auto vehicle penetration, Clean Energy Fuels, climate change, Climate Progress, Climate Reality Project, Daniel Henninger, dot-com bubble, Dr. Terry Engelder, Dust Bowl, electric vehicles, energy transformations, EPA pollution rules, EV rescue vehicle, extreme weather events, Gas shale, global warming, hybrid cars, INGAA Foundation, Jeff Bezos, Joe Romm, Milliman Lecture, Musings From the Oil Patch, NOAA temperature data, plug-in vehicles, Robert Lucas, Rudd Weijermars, Sundrop Fuels, Time magazine and Ice Age, unemployment, Vaclav Smil, Wall Street Journal, wind power
By Allen Brooks on July 5, 2011
Natural Gas Shale Debate Becomes Front Page News! Maybe Offshore Rhode Island Wind Moves Forward Encana-PetroChina Deal Collapse: Canary In The Gas Well? Being Green Or Creating Green Economy Not Easy Politics Of Oil Rises To A New Level With Oil Release Clueless RI Media Lauds Opposition To Hess LNG Terminal read more Source: Energy […]
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged Block Island wind farm, Cutbank Ridge, DeepWater Wind, Eagle Ford shale, EnCana, Enron, Gas shale, George Mitchell, green energy, green jobs, Hess LNG, horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing, hydropower, IEA, Kermit, LNG market, Musings From the Oil Patch, National Grid, PetroChina, Ponzi scheme, strategic oil reserves, UER, wind energy, wind turbines
By Allen Brooks on June 22, 2011
Last week Hess Corp. announced it was withdrawing its application to construct an LNG receiving terminal in the Providence, Rhode Island area. A local newspaper congratulated itself that its editorials helped mobilize the opposition it credits with stopping the terminal. Not surprisingly, New England has little appreciation for the energy business, except when oil prices […]
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged gas shale revolution, Hess, LNG
By Allen Brooks on June 21, 2011
Future Of Petroleum Framed By Politics And Economics Environmentalists Hit BOEMRE With Suit Over Gulf Permits Green Energies Clash And Suffer Under Renewable Mandate Is High Unemployment Destined As The New Normal? People Starting To Connect Dots Of Renewable Energy Cost U.S. Hurricane Forecast Explains How 2011 Could Be Worse read more Source: Energy Musings
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged 2011 hurricane forecast, AccuWeather, Appomattox prospect, Arab spring, Block Island offshore wind, BOEMRE, Bonneville Power Authority, commodity prices, Corps of Engineers, DeepWater Wind, hydroelectric power, ImpactWeather, Israeli peace with Egypt, Luddite Fallacy, Macondo, Musings From the Oil Patch, National Resources Defense Council, OCS lease sales, oil prices, OPEC, salmon and steelhead fish, Saudi Aramco accelerated transformation program, Shell Oil, unemployment, wind power
By Allen Brooks on June 7, 2011
A Real Game-Changer – Saudi Aramco’s ATP Effort? UK Hydraulic Fracturing Report Supports Technology Use If U.S. Follows Canada’s Fiscal Solution, Energy Use To Fall Frac Attack: Burning Water And Earthquakes Scientists: Forget About Peer Review; Fear Legal Action! Tornadoes Give Climate Change Supporters Ammunition Will Canada’s Summer Help Global Warming Proponents? read more Source: […]
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged 1950s hurricanes, Canada summer temperature forecast, China temperature history, EnCana, EPA, ExxonMobil, global warming, hydraulic fracturing, IOCs, Italian seismologists, Italy 2009 earthquake, Musings From the Oil Patch, OPEC, Peru temperature history, ProPublica, Saudi Aramco, tornado deaths by decade, tornadoes, UK Parliament
