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The Spoils of Oil – Oil’s Divisive Influence: The Case of Iraq

Posted on May 21, 2012 at 10:37 am by Amy Myers Jaffe in General |

The future economic security of Iraq rests upon the management of its natural resources, but a festering dispute between the autonomous region of Iraqi Kurdistan and the central government in Baghdad threatens to destabilize more than just Iraq’s economy, according to an article published in The Majalla last week on “Oil’s Divisive Influence: The Case [...] More »

Europe’s Other Power Crisis: Energy

Posted on May 20, 2012 at 9:17 am by Michael Economides in General |

Guest Written By Peter C Glover What’s the difference between the European Union and the Titanic? Answer: the Titanic was holed by a single immovable object and took minutes to sink. The EU, another allegedly “unsinkable” project, is taking a little longer. As if Eurozone crisis and keeping Greece afloat wasn’t threatening enough, the next [...] More »

Guest Column: Vehicle emissions standards are a regulatory success story

Posted on May 18, 2012 at 8:00 am by Amy Myers Jaffe in Automobiles, General, Politics and Policy, Transportation, United States |

Recent estimates from the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) show that emissions of air pollutants that harm human health in the Houston region are falling dramatically. More »

A Link Between Energy, The Greek Debt Crisis, JP Morgan’s Losses, And A Fire Hydrant

Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:14 pm by Matt Smith in Commodity Prices, Oil, Supply and Demand |

About three seconds before my son ran head first into a fire hydrant on Monday night, I was talking to a friend who was asking exactly what JP Morgan had done to lose $2 billion. Both this event and the escalating farce in Greece have been dictating both the mood and movement in financial markets [...] More »

Reviewing the Case for Electric Cars

Posted on May 17, 2012 at 9:45 am by William O'Keefe in Politics and Policy |

In 2010, my paper “Electric Cars: Not Ready for Prime Time” examined the case being made for electric cars and the technical and economic hurdles to be overcome to enable them to have more than niche role in the market. Recently representatives of the organization Secure America’s Energy Future (SAFE) visited Washington to promote the [...] More »

Quantifying the Energy Revolution

Posted on May 14, 2012 at 9:56 am by David Holt in General |

Consumer Energy Alliance has long recognized and advocated for the immense economic benefits that domestic energy production brings. From Pennsylvania to Texas and up to Michigan, we’ve witnessed the tremendous impact that increased energy production – both traditional fossil fuel and renewable energy – has brought to communities. And now, we have the studies to [...] More »

From The Beasties To Commodities

Posted on May 10, 2012 at 12:30 pm by Matt Smith in General, Natural Gas, Oil |

I was utterly gutted to hear about the passing of Adam Yauch (MCA from the Beastie Boys) last week. Although I disliked the band’s early stuff like ‘Fight For Your Right To Party’ and ‘No Sleep ’til Brooklyn’, their second album ‘Paul’s Boutique’ is one of my favorite records ever, and I have been a fan [...] More »

The Use of Raw Gas as Compressed Natural Gas (CNG) to Optimize Petroleum Well Production

Posted on May 7, 2012 at 12:01 pm by Michael Economides in General

By Michael J. Economides The time has come for a new era in petroleum production operations worldwide and, as usual, a crucial component will play a pivotal role. It has been considered in the past but largely unexcitingly as a means of natural gas transport and can still serve as such. However, compressed natural gas [...] More »

Ehrlich, False Prophets and the ‘Futures’ Market

Posted on May 4, 2012 at 11:06 am by Michael Economides in General

By Peter C Glover When Elijah stood on Mount Carmel he faced a formidable array of 950 prophets (I Kings 18:19). All were resolute in their populist ‘consensus’ theory about a troubling environmental matter. But Elijah didn’t mind the odds. He wasn’t interested in predictions and theory, just hard facts. The issue on Carmel was [...] More »

Hurdles to Offshore Energy Remain

Posted on May 3, 2012 at 5:06 pm by David Holt in General

As tens of thousands of energy professionals descend upon Houston this week for the 2012 Offshore Technology Conference, we are reminded just how far technology has come in such a short time. In the two years since the Deepwater Horizon tragedy, both the private sector and federal regulators have advanced new technologies and practices that [...] More »

Everything’s Going A Bit Van Halen

Posted on May 3, 2012 at 11:58 am by Matt Smith in Economics

You know those people that look at clouds and see shapes (no? oh, ok…), well recently every time I see charts of the latest economic data, I see the Van Halen logo. And it’s not even like I’m a Van Halen fan (I’m way too young, obviously). So to prove I am not one sandwich [...] More »

What Is the Law’s Role in Offshore Drilling Safety?

Posted on May 1, 2012 at 2:26 pm by Victor Flatt in Accidents, BOEMRE, BSEE, Deepwater drilling, Drilling

As the OTC gets underway to record numbers here in Houston, one oft repeated phrase from industry and government is that safety should come first. James Watson, head of BSEE, also announced that the government plans to speed up its rulemaking on safety requirements by skipping the “notice of proposed rulemaking” stage and going straight [...] More »

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