Canadian First Nations have caused Canadian energy projects to be significantly delayed – in a few cases, maybe cancelled Indigenous peoples’ opposition to pipelines has been a huge issue in Canada, and could become one in [Read more]
South Delaware Basin short on oil and gas infrastructure, including pipeline capacity Yesterday’s announcement that Apache Corp. has discovered a three billion barrel oil field in the South Delaware Basin has many West Texans celebrating, [Read more]
Equalization payments for pipelines is unconstitutional, poor way to stimulate Canadian debate Mark Salkeld is basking in oil and gas industry approval for his recent media comments about linking Eastern Canada equalization payments and pipelines [Read more]
Experts expect to see more E&P, service company bankruptcies before next boom starts Despite oil prices hovering in the mid-$40 range, the Permian Basin industry is shaking off two years of hibernation and readying itself [Read more]
The energy transition has begun. Resistance is futile. So is half-baked carping by climate journalists Last month, influential British journalist George Monbiot published a criticism of the media’s role in the global “climate crisis” that illustrates why [Read more]
Neither industry nor government has ever said climate policies were quid pro quo for pipeline social license Judging by the hysteria surrounding the arrest of a few protestors at Monday’s Energy East hearings in Montreal, Canadian [Read more]
Big Energy must stake its claim to manage the energy transition, not leave it to eco-activists I’ve taken plenty of heat lately from fossil fuels boosters who disagree the global economy has begun a 100-year [Read more]
Technology competitions like Waste Heat Challenge are terrific policy for stimulating technical innovation When Alberta Premier Rachel Notley announced her climate change policies last Nov., energy industry leaders promised they would “take the carbon out [Read more]
Hillary Clinton can’t – or won’t – distance herself from anti-fossil fuel movement “Keep it in the ground” The US Chamber of Commerce has waded into the election campaign with the release of a report [Read more]
California has only 223,700 electrics and plug-in hybrids. Vancouver, BC has far more Ferraris, Lamborghinis. etc. than EVs California will fail to meet its goal of 1.5 million electric vehicles by 2025 in Hollywood blockbuster [Read more]
EOG says Permian Basin assets are responding well to productivity improvements like longer horizontal well laterals Not many American oil producers are competitive at low prices, but EOG Resources has the technical knowhow and execution to [Read more]
Tzeporah Berman: “Being asked as member BC’s Climate Leadership Team what I think of this plan: Pathetic and cowardly. U can quote me” British Columbia’s newly revised climate plan is being panned by environmental groups. That [Read more]
NY Attorney General Eric Schneiderman’s Exxon climate change fraud investigation just became ridiculous, as revealed in his interview in today’s NY Times. You can read North American Energy News stories on the background here and here and my columns here [Read more]
Energy industry has to woo “soft political middle” so Trudeau Liberals have enough “legitimacy” to approve pipelines I got myself in hot water with a couple of columns lately. One argued that oil and gas [Read more]
Emotional connection is the new norm, energy industry’s old facts and science approach no longer connects with stakeholders If the Dilbert comic strip taught us anything, it’s that engineers are socially awkward and terrible communicators. Now [Read more]
Peak tight gas production in Barnett Shale is 5 Bcf/d, down to 4.5 Bcf under current conditions Global shale natural gas production will rise by 400 per cent over the next 25 years, but that’s [Read more]
CleanCarbon Energy uses bacteria to fix CO2 in depleted oil reservoirs, turns it into cheap syngas The Carbon XPrize is on! Thirty-eight teams from seven countries are vying for the $20 million prize, awarded for [Read more]
Trudeau government was always going to approve the Kinder Morgan pipeline project Kai Nagata of BC’s Dogwood Initiative is dismayed by the ” slapdash” three-person panel reviewing the Kinder Morgan pipeline panel, and even hints that [Read more]
Dear Oil Sands Boosters; You know who you are: Ezra Levant, Cody Battershill, Gwyn Morgan, Brett Wilson, Vivian Krause, Patrick Moore, Claudia Cattaneo, and the legion of Albertans who agree with you. I regularly read your [Read more]
Eco-activists, BC First Nations eroded NEB and industry legitimacy, which must now be restored before new pipelines are built Why is the idea of social license so important to the oil sands industry? Because the [Read more]
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