President Trump could issue executive order to establish import quotas keeping OPEC oil from US refineries I’m embarrassed. Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump promised to (sort of) ban OPEC and I missed it. My only consolation [Read more]
Expect Mike Pence to be articulate and forceful in his defense of the American energy industry Donald Trump has a running mate, Indiana Gov. Mike Pence. The 57-year old lawyer is an interesting blend of energy [Read more]
Co-existence of climate mitigation and oil sands development will be the new norm for many decades Critics of the new Alberta Oil Sands Advisory Group are missing a key point: mixing environmentalists with industry representatives perfectly [Read more]
Oil sands producers will concentrate on expanding existing facilities, production to rise 1M b/d by 2025 – IHS Oil prices are near levels where Alberta oil sands operators will consider expanding production, according to presenters [Read more]
Interesting issue is Obama Administration’s need to address perceptions of USA as committed to fighting climate change – Kronby When President Barack Obama rejected TransCanada Corp.’s Keystone XL pipeline proposal last year, he probably expected some sort of [Read more]
41% of BC respondents support approval of Kinder Morgan pipeline, 34% are opposed Get ready for a new pipeline, British Columbia, because a recent poll may have removed the last impediment to building the Kinder Morgan project. [Read more]
Industry concerned federal regulations stifling natural gas production, manufacturing opportunities in Mancos Shale Now that natural gas reserve estimates for the Mancos Shale in the Piceance Basin of Colorado have been revised dramatically upwards to 66 trillion cubic [Read more]
“This action by Oregon teaches [students] that scientific knowledge derives from politics. – Dr. Judith Curry A recent decision by the Portland, Oregon public school board to ban discussion of climate change opposition in textbooks is part of the [Read more]
Permian Basin leaders like EOG, Pioneer ready to resume drilling, smaller companies more cautious After a year and a half of tough times, the Permian Basin – the world’s most prolific shale basin – is showing [Read more]
Canadian wind/solar generation will rise from 5.2% to 7% by 2020, growth remains flat from 2020 to 2040 Why all the fuss about renewable energy in Canada? A new report from the national regulator shows [Read more]
Expect more moderation once Trump sews up the nomination and begins the general election campaign Donald Trump delivered the first energy policy speech since he began running for the Republican nomination. The biggest surprise is [Read more]
Modern autos are pretty much perfected, trying to replace them with copycat EVs will fail. EV subsidies should solve real world issues Last week the Canadian province of Ontario introduced huge electric vehicle subsidies, up [Read more]
Permian Basin oil patch looking forward to recovery when price recovers to $45 or $50 and holds for 30 days Mike Swihart was a bit surprised when some of his Permian Basin oil and gas [Read more]
Social media comments suggesting Fort McMurray residents got what they deserved for supporting oil sands are despicable It happens every time: Natural disasters get used to score cheap political points. But is it fair to point out [Read more]
Best candidates for radical decarbonizing are Asian nations planning hundreds of coal power plants, not United States, Canada or Europe The international Energy Transitions Commission is calling for more radical policies to decarbonize the global economy [Read more]
“…we [the USA] are more exposed to high prices than we are to low prices.” – Hirs Last week I wrote about a Texas-based oil producers group that is calling for a ban on crude oil [Read more]
Electric vehicle industry busy innovating, will traditional automakers do the same to compete against upstarts? Last month I wrote about a simple model to help explain energy transitions. Central to my thinking about energy technology diffusion [Read more]
Banning OPEC oil would require US, Canada to produce only 3 million b/d more of crude oil Some American oil producers have had just about enough of Saudi Arabia. They’re calling for the next President to [Read more]
NDP convention resolutions routinely ignored by Saskatchewan NDP governments, why not Alberta? Wow, wasn’t that some convention this weekend? Rachel Notley was thundering for pipelines. The federal NDP responded by endorsing the schizo-anarchist climate change strategy [Read more]
AG investigations, #Exxonknew campaign all about undermining social acceptance of oil/gas – just like Keystone XL Investigations by a coalition of Democrat state attorney generals into Exxon Mobil’s climate change research from the 1970s onward [Read more]
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