Lift The US Oil Export Ban It makes no sense to keep an energy trade restriction created at the time of the OPEC oil embargo WASHINGTON – At the time of the first OPEC oil embargo (1973-74), in an attempt to protect shrinking domestic...
THE US Shale Industry Survived Oil Prices Collapse High cost producers managed to increase productivity WASHINGTON – When oil prices suddenly collapsed, going from $ 100 per barrel to $ 50 or less, the almost...
Keystone Pipeline Would Improve US Energy Security Sadly, this pipeline linking Canada and Texas may not be approved. US energy policy is prisoner of ideology WASHINGTON – Is The US State Department (read President Barack Obama) going to finally authorize the Canada to the US...
Low Oil Prices Are Good For America The US energy sector is badly hurt. But the overall American economy benefits from lower crude prices WASHINGTON – Oil prices keep going down, and down. We are now around $ 50 a barrel, or even...
Saudi Arabia Wants To Kill US Shale Oil The Saudis bet that high cost US shale oil industry will not be able to survive a prolonged period of low prices WASHINGTON – Saudi Arabia’s oil end game is to let prices fall and stay low for as long as...
Low Oil Prices Is The Only Bit Of Good News For Most Western Countries Let's celebrate cheap gasoline. But let's find ways to grow our economies, whatever the price of oil will be WASHINGTON – Western financial and business publications are now celebrating the collapse of oil prices. This unexpected Christmas gift is...
Keystone Pipeline Killed By Plunging Oil Prices? Canada's oil is very expensive. Hard to to stay competitive when extraction costs are above market prices WASHINGTON – I suspect that the Keystone pipeline project is dead, or at least is in a coma. And...
Will America’s Shale Oil Kill OPEC? Saudi Arabia wants to keep oil prices very low, in order to smother US shale producers that need higher prices to stay in business. But the US shale industry will fight back WASHINGTON – The incredible decline of world oil prices, (now at $ 66 per barrel), is due to three reasons....
Despite Low Prices and Squeezed Margins, The US Shale Oil Sector Will Survive Technological innovation will bring extraction costs down WASHINGTON – The US shale oil and shale gas revolutions have radically transformed global energy markets. Thanks to shale, the...
Professor Joseph Nye Of Harvard in the WSJ: US Has Energy For Two Centuries The shale gas revolution has transformed America's energy outlook. From importer to exporter of natural gas WASHINGTON – Is the “shale gas revolution” now underway in America really such a big deal? You bet it is. Harvard...