Geothermal energy doesn’t quite have the glamor of wind, solar, or biomass and thus receives little media or popular interest. Even so, the resource has a number of advantages, including the reliability of base load power, low operating costs, and virtually no greenhouse gas emissions. More importantly, geothermal energy is immensely promising if new technologies […]
A SURGE of energy entrepreneurship
My colleague asked excitedly, “Are you here yet?”, but I was still looking for parking. She declared “This is a party, not a conference” before urging me to come and find a seat quickly. SURGE is a Houston-based start-up accelerator focused on companies developing software for the energy industry. After putting their inaugural portfolio of […]
Replicating the shale gas story globally
The North American success story has motivated a number of foreign countries and companies to initiate efforts toward developing their local shale gas resources. The potential is very promising: a study commissioned by the EIA concluded that nearly 6,000 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of gas reserves are available in 32 countries — far more than […]
Corporate social responsibility in the oil and gas industry
Two interesting articles that appeared last week highlighted for me a project that ADI Analytics recently completed on benchmarking corporate social responsibility (CSR) in oil and gas companies. The first was in the Economist and talked about how CSR is now more constructive and better ingrained with core business operations and goals. The second is a […]
The “make vs. buy” lesson for Delta and Chesapeake
Ford Motor Company apparently owned the land that fed the sheep whose wool was used to make its car seats. While this is, in fact, an urban legend it brings up a very valuable point. What is more beneficial − make or buy? In other words, should a company invest in owning and operating all […]
Coal’s future
A client meeting yesterday on shale gas monetization began interestingly with questions on coal’s future. Cheap natural gas and sluggish economic recovery are making it difficult for coal to be a competitive fuel for power in North America. Overseas, Europe continues to suffer from economic weakness and uncertainty, while emerging economies such as China and […]
The shale gas weekend
Shale gas seems to be the flavor of this weekend wherever one looks. If the Wall Steet Journal did an editorial defending fracking, the New York Times continued its superb Drilling Down series on shale gas with a piece questioning if the industry was another bubble in the making. The WSJ editorial was a great […]
U.S. as a Natural Gas Exporter?
It’s a far cry from the situation five years ago when oil and gas majors were scrambling to build LNG import terminals in the U.S. But a lot has changed in the past five years with the shale gas revolution. So today companies are exploring terminals to export gas from the U.S. Notwithstanding the promoters’ […]
No energy is more expensive than no energy
Homi Bhabha, the architect of India’s nuclear industry, reportedly once declared that no form of energy was more expensive than having no energy. Consumers in the developing world without (or at the margins of) access to electricity can empathize with that sentiment. Renewable power technologies are becoming cheaper but several developing world consumers are “ignoring” […]
Cars for the masses
Today the Wall Street Journal published a great piece on efforts by leading automakers such as Honda, Nissan, and General Motors to develop cheap cars for China’s millions. These auto industry leaders are all collaborating with local, often state-owned Chinese companies to develop and produce cheap, small cars costing anywhere from $4,000 to $14,000. While pessimists […]
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