Musings From the Oil Patch
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 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
By Allen Brooks on May 23, 2011
“And I Can’t Wait To Get On The Road Again” Government, Energy Efficiency And Dirty Clothes New England Wind Projects Struggle To Move Forward The Economic Pain Of Gasoline Prices Wind Energy Rebound Confronting Economic Challenges The Green Energy Movement In Ontario May Be Changing NOAA 2011 Hurricane Forecast Repeats Last Year’s Pattern read more […]
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged AccuWeather 2011 hurricane forecast, Atchafalaya basin, barges on Mississippi River, Cape Wind, Colorado State University 2011 hurricane forecast, Cracker Barrel, DeepWater Wind, front-loading washers, gasoline pump prices, green energy, hand-crank washers, McDonald’s, Musings From the Oil Patch, NOAA 2011 hurricane forecast, Ontario PM2.5 concerns, road trip, top-loading washers, washing machines, wind power
By Allen Brooks on May 10, 2011
Gas Shales Face Conflicting Future Based On Recent Events Rig Count Climbs; Rig Orders Up; Overbuilding Coming? Housing And Autos Still Key Growth – 1Q11 GDP Not Good Is The China Energy Growth Machine Slowing Down? Will My Visibility Be Compromised By Wind Turbines? read more Source: Energy Musings
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged Baker Hughes drilling rig count, Boone Pickens, Boots & Coots, Charlestown, Chesapeake Marcellus well spill, China 2010 population census, CUDD, drillships, floating drilling rigs, gas shales, GM car sales, green energy subsidies, green jobs, housing double dip, jackups, Musings From the Oil Patch, newbuild offshore drilling rigs, Potential Gas Committee, Rhode Island, semisubmersible rigs, unemployment claims, wind power
By Allen Brooks on April 25, 2011
Natural Gas Is So 2010; Now It’s All About Liquids-rich Shale Never Fear, Your Governments Is Here To Protect You! Ever Wonder Why Wind Power Needs To Be Offshore? Climate Change Debate Becoming Harder On Supporters Water Concerns Trump Climate Change – Gallup Poll read more Source: Energy Musings
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged Andrew Revkin, Anthony Watts, Art Berman, Baker Hughes rig count, Barnett Shale, Braes O’Doune, Chesapeake Energy, climate change, CO2, EUR, Gallup poll, gas rigs, gas shales, global warming, liquids-rich, Little Ice Age, Musings From the Oil Patch, Obama and gasoline prices, oil rigs, Roy Spencer, Shanghai trucker strike, Six Americas, Stirling Castle, UN Environmental Program, UNEP, water, wind power, Yale Report on Climate Change Communication
By Allen Brooks on April 11, 2011
Are Prospects For Natural Gas Shifting To The Plus Column? Chesapeake Energy And Natural Gas In The News Rising Energy Prices Hit U.S. Consumers And Economy Scotland Wind Power Report Challenges Proponent Claims Using Food For Fuel Creating Unintended Consequences Updated 2011 Hurricane Forecast Still Calls For Active Year read more Source: Energy Musings
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged 2011 hurricane forecast, agricultural prices, Aubrey McClendon, cavassa, Chesapeake Energy, CNG, compressed natural gas, corn, CPI, drilling efficiency, ethanol, Gas shale, gasoline prices, grains, horizontal rigs, John Muir Trust, LNG, Musings From the Oil Patch, natural gas, oily plays, Scotland wind power, uncompleted wells, wheat, wind turbine efficiency
By Allen Brooks on March 28, 2011
Are The Shale Resource Estimates Realistic Or Fantasy? U.S. GDP Up, But Economic Recovery Continues To Struggle BP Spill Study Says BOP Needs Further Work China Planning To Go Green On Energy? Can Katrina Offer Any Guide For Japan’s Energy Outlook? Are Houston Drivers Spending Less Time Stuck In Traffic? Your Tax Dollars At Work […]
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged automobile manufacturers, Bakken, BOP, BP, Cameron International, China green energy, CNG, Deepwater Horizon, electricity, electronics, ethanol, Gas shale, housing sales, Hurricane Katrina, isobutanol, Kobe earthquake, LNG, Macondo well, Marcellus, Musings From the Oil Patch, MV-1, Ohio Oil & Gas Association, Sec. Chu, traffic congestion, Utica, 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 March 1, 2011
Recession Threat Due To Higher Oil Prices Grows Tunisia, Egypt, Yemen, Bahrain, Libya – The Beat Goes On Gas Shale: And The Beat Goes On! Is The Oil Industry On The Verge Of Major Restructuring? Rain, Rain Go Away, Come Again Another Day; But Can It? Offshore Wind Power Gets Push From East Coast State […]
Posted in Energy Musings | Tagged BHP, Chesapeake Energy, climate change, Egypt, Fayetteville shale, gas shales, greenhouse gases, Iranian revolution, Libya, Middle East oil, Musings From the Oil Patch, offshore wind power, real oil prices, Saudi Arabia