In the past several months, oil prices have fallen considerably. Brent crude oil is down 32% from $113 to $76 and WTI is down 29% from $107 to $75. While down, natural gas has not seen as large a fall. Henry Hub Natural Gas is down 9% from $4.70 to $4.20. The recent decline in […]
New Approaches to FLNG
Floating liquid natural gas (FLNG) is a new technology pioneered by Shell, but companies are already trying different approaches to improve its cost effectiveness and speed of construction. As a first mover in this space, Shell is using its scale and traditional leadership in oil and gas technology to its advantage. Golar is using its […]
Exploiting Floating LNG for Small Markets
Last week, we explored a small company, Carib Energy Solutions, aiming to supply the Caribbean with LNG. We also briefly mentioned another company, Cambridge Energy and their plans to supply the Caribbean with LNG as well. However, unlike Carib, Cambridge is planning to produce their own LNG. Further, it is planning to produce LNG on […]
North American Natural Gas Boom Spreads to the Caribbean
Carib Energy Solutions is not the name that comes to mind when people think of LNG. Most people will think of large export terminal developers such as Cheniere or Freeport LNG. However, a small company, Carib, has secured both Free Trade Agreement (FTA) and non-FTA export licenses from the United States Department of Energy (DOE). […]
The global fight for resources
Nothing is more telling of the global fight for resources than a few trips to Asia and long conversations with clients as I have learned this past year. To build the roads, bridges, cars, planes, and power plants their people need, policy makers, CEOs, and consumers in India, China, Thailand, and Malaysia in Asia are […]
A portfolio of renewables can supply India’s demand for electricity
The big energy challenge of the future will be supplying enough low-carbon power to meet the emerging economies’ growing demands. Although renewable capacity continues to grow, as this blog has noted in the past, notwithstanding depressed financing, waning popular interest, disappearing subsidies, and slower technological progress, there is growing concern that renewables cannot be an important […]
Progress, albeit small, on carbon markets
In the U.S., climate change and regulations on carbon emissions have been relegated to oped pieces thanks to the recession and lack of political will. Even so, there has been some progress as California advances toward implementing the legislation known as AB 32 that sets greenhouse gas emission targets by 2020. This week will mark […]
Advancing gas hydrate technology
In the age of prolific and immediately-recoverable onshore gas resources, gas or methane hydrates — a resource for the future — may not be a fashionable topic. However, a successful proof-of-concept test on the Alaskan North Slope is a promising advance of gas hydrate technology. A consortium comprising ConocoPhillips, National Energy Technology Laboratory, University of […]
Stimulus’ impact on energy
Nearly $100 billion was invested in a large variety of programs in the energy sector as part of the U.S. stimulus in 2009. Michael Grunwald of Time magazine has been reporting on some of them based primarily from his research for a forthcoming book on the stimulus (see below). A recent column on BigBelly’s novel […]
Renewable energy is growing and spreading but still challenging
Popular and media interest in renewable energy has waned in recent months but two reports issued this month show that the industry is growing in capacity and investment, spreading geographically, and delivering energy at increasingly cheaper prices. REN21’s Global Status Report is a mammoth, 170-page document but is written and produced well making it easy […]
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