ICF for the American Petroleum Institute http://www.api.org/~/media/Files/Policy/LNG-Exports/API-LNG-Export-Report-by-ICF.pdf [Oil and Gas Journal] LNG exports could create at least 73,100-145,100 and up to 220,100-452,300 new US jobs over 20 years while having a minimal impact on US gas prices, a new ICF International study commissioned by the American Petroleum Institute concluded. The study, US LNG Exports: Impacts … Continue reading »
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National Strategy for the Arctic Region
The White House http://www.whitehouse.gov/sites/default/files/docs/nat_arctic_strategy.pdf [The White House blog] …Today, we are releasing the National Strategy for the Artic Region. Through this strategy, we are setting the United States Government’s strategic priorities for the Arctic region. These priorities are intended to position the United States to respond effectively to emerging opportunities – while simultaneously pursuing efforts … Continue reading »
The 2013 U.S. Electric Utility Report
Black & Veatch http://bv.com/reports/2013-electric-utility-report [From an Energy Wire article by Saqib Rahim, sub. req'd] …According to engineering consultancy Black & Veatch, pipeline chokepoints have caused brief but extreme spikes in natural gas prices. Without new infrastructure, the firm said, consumers could face unsavory consequences: high bills and unreliable service. The ugliest scenario has yet to occur, … Continue reading »
The Case for U.S. Liquefied Natural Gas Exports
Brookings Institution / by Charles K. Ebinger and Govinda Avasarala http://bit.ly/16yUPvD The recent natural gas ‘revolution’ in the United States has encouraged a nationwide shift in its energy consumption patterns. An abundance of unconventional natural gas (with help from a patchy economic recovery) has allowed for sustained low natural gas prices. With prices currently hovering … Continue reading »
At Cross-purposes: Subsidies and Climate Compatible Investment
Overseas Development Institute / by Shelagh Whitley http://bit.ly/10QDRmr [Website] …Though climate finance aims to enable climate compatible development (CCD), this paper points out that, within developing countries, subsidies to fossil fuels (alone) currently dwarf any efforts toward CCD through climate finance. For the 42 developing countries where data are available on either subsidies or climate … Continue reading »
Natural Gas Liquids: The “Other” Driver of the U.S. Oil and Gas Supply Resurgence
Brookings Institution / by Charles K. Ebinger and Govinda Avasarala http://www.brookings.edu/research/reports/2013/04/01-natural-gas-liquids-ebinger-avasarala The fundamental changes in the U.S. hydrocarbon production landscape are now widely acknowledged. Analysts and pundits liberally discuss the prospects for U.S. “energy independence” and becoming “Saudi America.” What is less understood and discussed, however, is the role that rapid increases in the production of Natural … Continue reading »
Lowering the Price of Russian Gas: A Challenge for European Energy Security
The Atlantic Council / by Adnan Vatansever and David Koranyi http://www.acus.org/files/publication_pdfs/403/eef130326russiangasprice.pdf [Oil and Gas Journal] Changing global natural gas markets may compel Russia’s state gas company Gazprom to dramatically change, two Washington observers suggested, but the changes won’t be easy, and will take time, they said during a seminar at the Atlantic Council. Gazprom will … Continue reading »
Europe’s Energy Security: Options and Challenges to Natural Gas Supply Diversification
Congressional Research Service http://www.fas.org/sgp/crs/row/R42405.pdf Europe as a major energy consumer faces a number of challenges when addressing future energy needs. Among these challenges are rapidly rising global demand and competition for energy resources from emerging economies such as China and India, persistent instability in energy producing regions such as the Middle East, a fragmented internal … Continue reading »
Assessment of In-Place Gas Hydrate Resources of the Lower 48 United States Outer Continental Shelf
Dept. of the Interior, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management http://www.netl.doe.gov/technologies/oil-gas/publications/Hydrates/Newsletter/MHNews_2013_March.pdf [From an Energy Wire article by Margaret Kriz Hobson, sub. req'd] ,,,The report by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management estimated that methane hydrate formations along the U.S. East Coast contain 21,702 tcf of natural gas. The greatest concentrations lie along the outer continental shelf … Continue reading »
US Manufacturing and LNG Exports: Economic Contributions to the US Economy and Impacts on US Natural Gas Prices
Charles River Associates http://www.crai.com/uploadedFiles/Publications/CRA_LNG_Study_Feb2013.pdf [From Press Release] CRA was retained by The Dow Chemical Company to examine the economic trade-offs between LNG exports and manufacturing in the US economy. The report focuses primarily on the anticipated growth in the gas-intensive manufacturing industry and how it may contribute to GDP, employment and the trade balance relative … Continue reading »
