By Allen Brooks on October 23, 2017
Energy Transitions: Issues, Questions And Some Answers Transitioning Energy For The Transportation Sector Transitioning Energy Fuels In The Fixed Power Sector The Transition Underway Among Energy Exporters Understanding The Magnitude Of The Energy Transition Issue Read article »
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged coal, electric vehicles, Energy transition, internal combustion engines, levelized cost of energy, Musings From the Oil Patch, natural gas
By Allen Brooks on October 9, 2017
Understanding The Energy Revolution In Transportation Shaking Up Saudi Arabia May Dislocate Global Oil Markets It Was The Best Of Trips And It Was The Worst Of Trips Natural Gas Injection Season Will Leave Storage Nearly Full TransCanada Kills Energy East And Alters World Oil Market Read article »
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged electric vehicles, internal combustion vehicles, Musings From the Oil Patch, natural gas prices, natural gas storage, Saudi Arabia driving ban, Saudi Arabia non-oil economy, TransCanada pipeline projects
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 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 March 15, 2011
Will Japan Become 2011’s Energy Black Swan? Does Lack Of Sunspots Signal New Little Ice Age Start? Environmentalist Victory In Eastern Canada Gas Shale Play Gasoline Pump Prices Creating Political Problems The Undoing Of Mubarak In Egypt: Problems For Others? Does Daylight Savings Time Actually Save Energy? Buffett And New England Look To Change Energy […]
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged battery costs, ConocoPhillips, daylight savings time, Egypt, electric vehicles, gasoline pump prices, Japan earthquake, Little Ice Age, LNG, Maunder Minimum, Mubarak, Musings From the Oil Patch, nuclear power, Quebec gas shale drilling, railroads, sunspots, trucking, tsunami, Utica gas shale, vehicle miles driven, Warren Buffett
By Allen Brooks on February 15, 2011
Random Thoughts While Traveling Middle Eastern Waters Business Reality Confirms Problem Of EV Strategy Groundhog Day Storm Drives Debate Over Climate Change China’s Energy Shopping Spree Stops In Canada Again read more Source: Energy Musings
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged 2010-2011 winter weather forecast, Abu Dhabi, Dubai, electric vehicles, EnCana, gas shales, lithium, Middle East, Montney, Musings From the Oil Patch, Oman, PetroChina, Prius hybrid, Sharjah, start-stop idle elimination, UAE
By Allen Brooks on February 1, 2011
Natural Gas Shales A Game Changer, But LNG Exports? Crying For The Old Days; Will They Ever Come Back? Meteorologists At A Loss To Explain The Winter Weather Incandescent Bulb Ban Nears; Study Shows CFL Issues Cost Of Electric Vehicle Technology Doesn’t Pan Out read more Source: Energy Musings
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged AGW, auto sales, CFL bulbs, electric vehicles, hybrid vehicles, incandescent light bulbs, Musings From the Oil Patch, new housing starts, oil prices, Pacific Decadal Oscillation, Polar Vortex, sun spots
By Allen Brooks on January 18, 2011
Offshore Industry: Waiting For Godot; Will He Ever Come? Why Are Electric Vehicles Darlings Of Detroit Auto Show? Seismic Replaced By Fracturing, But E&P Cycle Building Dutch Opt For New Strategy On Energy And Renewables What Vintage Is Your Barrel Of Crude Oil? read more Source: Energy Musings
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged 2011 Detroit auto show, cabled data acquisition systems, Dawson Geophysical, deepwater drilling moratorium, Deepwater Horizon, EIA, electric vehicle fleet penetration rate forecast, electric vehicles, fine wine prices, fleet fuel-efficiency standard, Gulf of Mexico drilling permits, ION Geophysical, Macondo, Michael Bromwich, Musings From the Oil Patch, Netherlands renewable subsidy program, Offshore wind, OYO Geospace, President’s commission on BP oil spill, seismic data acquisition equipment, solar PV, wireless data acquisition systems
By Allen Brooks on November 23, 2010
Separating Wheat From The Chaff Of Unconventionals Fuel Economy And Electric Vehicles – The Future Vision Northern Hemisphere Wind Speeds – Wind Energy Problem? Taxes And A Rapidly Changing Ethanol Market Offshore Wind Conference Points Out Jobs Problem read more Source: Energy Musings
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged 100 years of gas supply, AWS Truepower, Cape Wind, DeepWater Wind, E-10, E-15, electric vehicles, Electrification Coalition, Environmental Protection Agency, ethanol, ethanol blender credit, EVs, Fleet Electrification Roadmap, gas shales, green jobs, Musings From the Oil Patch, Nature Geoscience, North American gas, Northern Hemisphere wind speeds, Siemens AG, vehicle fleet fuel efficiency, wind power
By Allen Brooks on November 9, 2010
Oil Industry Confronts Ghost Of Future Regulation Energy Stocks Have Mostly Trailed Market This Year Future Of The Gulf Of Mexico Oil And Gas Industry J.D. Power Didn’t Get The Electric Vehicle Hype Memo Third Quarter Wind Speed Data Shows Variability Debate Continues About Volt’s Status As An Electric Vehicle read more Source: Energy Musings
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged BOEMRE, Chevy Volt, deepwater drilling moratorium, Director Michael Bromwich, electric vehicles, energy stocks, EPX, EVs, Gulf of Mexico, ICE, J.D. Power, Musings From the Oil Patch, North Sea, offshore regulators, OSX, permitorium, range anxiety, wind power, wind speeds, XNG, XOI