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LNG Exports Could Create Big Job, Economic Numbers
Key findings in a new report by ICF International, analyzing the potential impacts of exporting U.S. liquefied natural gas (LNG):Jobs – Average net growth is projected to range from 73,100 to 452,300 between 2016 and 2035.ICF:This wide estimated...
The Ethanol-Gasoline Cost Gap
Ethanol advocates often assert that ethanol costs less per gallon than gasoline while trying to justify the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). While it’s true that on a gallon-to-gallon basis ethanol historically has been cheaper than gasoline,...
California: Energy Rich, Decision Poor
The Wall Street Journal has an incisive editorial this week that compares the diverging trajectories of two big, energy-rich states: Texas and California.Texas is flush with well-paying oil and natural gas jobs, supported by shale development...
The Tier 3 Game: EPA Regulations
It’s one thing to have genuine differences over energy regulatory policy – as the oil and natural gas industry has with EPA’s proposed Tier 3 rule further lowering sulfur levels in gasoline. It’s quite another to see that the rulemaking process is...
Managing Continuous Improvement in Offshore Drilling Safety [INFOGRAPHIC]
In an interview with Fuel Fix, Charlie Williams, director of the Center for Offshore Safety, fields a question about the perceptions surrounding the safety of drilling operations in the Gulf of Mexico:“I think the biggest misconception is that not...
Keystone XL: Safe for the Environment
Each of the State Department’s four reviews of the Keystone XL pipeline – during the more than four years the project has been under consideration – focused primarily on the Keystone XL’s impacts on the environment: air, ground and surface water,...
Bakken Bonanza: More Oil and Natural Gas from Drilling Innovation
The U.S. Geological Survey has new estimates for oil and natural gas in the Williston Basin shale area that simply blows the doors off previous estimates:3.65 billion barrels of undiscovered, technically recoverable oil for the Bakken Formation.3.73...
Domestic Oil Production Growth and Lower Net Imports
Imports of crude oil have decreased significantly over the past four years as the U.S. has become more self-reliant in meeting its energy needs domestically. In fact, as the graph below shows, from the beginning of 2008 through the end of 2012 net U...
Stepping Forward on Offshore Drilling
Take a look at the map below, one we’ve used before to show the vastness of America’s offshore oil and natural gas reserves – the overwhelming majority of which (in red) that’s off-limits for development.That should be changed – and could be changed...
Energy Earnings, Taxes and the Right Path for America
An interesting discussion this week at a Politico Pro event hosted by API on the impacts of tax policy on the U.S. energy sector – timely, because if past is prologue oil and natural gas earnings reports this week and next likely will be accompanied...
Corn Ethanol and Market Share
Over the past few months we’ve talked about problems with the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and the risks its mandates for higher blends of ethanol in fuel may pose to vehicle engines and fuel systems, as well as to service station pumps and storage...
Keystone XL: Safe for Our Country
The Keystone XL pipeline is squarely in President Obama’s court. He should approve the full project – for the jobs, economic lift and strengthened energy security this shovel-ready project would provide for our country. (Photo below by Joe...
