Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Elgin, Elgin gas leak, energy, Exclusion zone, Hans Deul, Natural gas, North Sea, Shearwater
Another monster from the deep.
A cloud of gas was reported to be surrounding the platform, which is located 150 miles (240km) off Aberdeen.
Workers from a second platform and drilling rig have been removed.
Shell has moved 120 non-essential staff from the Shearwater platform and Hans Deul drilling rig, about four miles from the Elgin, because of the drifting gas.
via BBC News – Elgin platform gas leak: Exclusion zone in place.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Big Gas, Big Oil, Boone Pickens, Club for Growth, energy, frack, fracking, Koch Brother, Natural gas, peak oil, Peak Oil is dead, s
Kochs don’t like govt. picking winners and losers — especially if the losers are them.
The idea of using the tax code to spur conversion of trucking fleets has support from many Democrats and Republicans, and enjoys some powerful backers.
They include billionaire energy magnate T. Boone Pickens, Reid and President Obama, who touted his own natural-gas vehicles plan in a Wednesday speech. (A White House spokesman couldn’t be reached for comment on the Senate proposal specifically.)
But groups influential in GOP circles including Heritage Action (an arm of the Heritage Foundation), the Club for Growth, Americans for Tax Reform and Americans for Prosperity have long been battling the natural-gas plan.
via Natural-gas tax fight between Koch, Pickens reaches Senate floor – The Hill's E2-Wire.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: cng, compressed natural gas, energy, FT-Bh, LNG, Natural gas, Toyota, transportation
The FT-Bh
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Afghanistan, Iran, Iran-Pakistan gas pipeline, Karzai, Natural gas, natural gas exports, natural gas pipelines, Pakistan
The U.S. opposes the pipeline.
Ahmedinejad left Pakistan Friday after meeting with Pakistan’s president Asif Ali Zardari and Afghan president Hamid Karzai, a trilateral summit seeking a formula to stabilize conditions in Afghanistan.
Karzai represents the part of Afghanistan that the U.S. supposedly had under control.
A joint statement issued by Pakistan’s foreign ministry after the meeting said the three countries agreed to “develop mutually beneficial cooperation in the energy, mining and minerals, agriculture and other sectors” without providing further details.
But an Iranian official in Islamabad who spoke to CBS News on condition of anonymity said, “The IP [Iran-Pakistan] gas pipeline is very close to our heart. President Ahmedinejad indicated Iran’s intent to finance the project on the Pakistani side if Pakistan has difficulty with finding the money”.
via Fostering ties, Iran offers to fund pipeline in Pakistan – World Watch – CBS News.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Coos Bay, Cove Point, energy exports, energy independence, liquefaction, LNG, Natural gas, natural gas exports
RIGZONE – Bills Seek to Ban U.S. LNG Exports.
At least, pass something to outlaw any gas company that exports from the US from making happy talk about “energy independence.”
Filed under: maps | Tags: energy, European natural gas trade, Gazprom, Natural gas, natural gas pipelines, natural gas trade
Lots of people searching for info on natural gas trade movements.
Here is the link to the IEA’s interactive map of the Euro gas trade. If you can figure out the difference between a “transmission line” and a “transit line” there is some good information here.
http://www.iea.org/gtf/index.asp
Also: BP’s map of the nat gas trade
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: Carrizo Springs, Eagle Ford, energy, energy production, fracking, fracking and water, hydraulic fracturing, Natural gas, shale gas, shale oil, shale plays, Texas Railroad Commission, tight gas, tight oil, WSJ
via http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204528204577009930222847246.html
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Baker Hughes, Bakken, Eagle Ford, energy, frack, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, Marcellus, Natural gas, natural gas production, proppant, tight gas, tight oil
…a.k.a. proppant. Didn’t see that one coming, Baker Hughes didn’t either apparently.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Chesapeake Energy, energy, Natural gas, natural gas demand, natural gas glut, natural gas supply
Glut.
“Stop drilling baby, drilling!”
Via http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=114481&hmpn=1
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Darmstadter, energy, energy consumption, HYDE, hydroelectric, liquid fuel, Natural gas, peak oil, power, solid fuel
…by fuel type.
Via HYDE: http://themasites.pbl.nl/en/themasites/hyde/consumptiondata/perfueltype/index.html
Claimed source is Darmstadter, 1971.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: drilling, frac, frack, fracking, hydraulic fracturing, hydrofracking, Natural gas, regulation, shale gas, shale oil, shale play
…with one day left in comment period.
Filed under: maps | Tags: exploration, Iraqi civil war, Kirkuk, kurdistan, Kurds, Natural gas, oil, petroleum, Shamaran Petroleum
High-res pdf from Shamaran Petroleum.
Added to the I.C. Energy & Transport Page.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Bakken Shale, Barnett Shale, drilling rigs, dry gas, Eagle Ford, energy, gas drilling, LNG, Marcellus, methane, Natural gas, production, rig counts, shale gas, shale plays, tight gas
From a detailed article at Rigzone. http://www.rigzone.com/news/article.asp?a_id=113890&hmpn=1
Filed under: maps | Tags: energy, Europe, exports, imports, LNG, Natural gas, pipelines, trade
According to BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2011 Review.
click to enlarge
Companies working in the US want to put another LNG line from here to Euro. Domestic nat gas price probably too low to make much dough.
Filed under: maps, Uncategorized | Tags: energy, Natural gas, net energy, pipelines, transportation
From the EIA.
http://www.eia.gov/pub/oil_gas/natural_gas/analysis_publications/ngpipeline/ngpipelines_map.html
click to enlarge
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Alberta, Canada, energy, Natural gas, pipeline, TransCanada
Fixed or increasing costs, declining revenue.
From the Toronto Star,
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: energy, exports, fracking, imports, Natural gas
BP STATISTICAL REVIEW OF WORLD ENERGY, NAT. GAS PRICES
Notice how the price in the US is about half the average German import price for 2010.
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: 2010, consumption, demand, EIA, exports, flow chart, imports, Natural gas, production, supply
From: http://www.eia.gov/totalenergy/data/annual/diagram3.cfm
Filed under: Uncategorized | Tags: Conoco, energy, energy independence, exports, imports, LNG, Natural gas, production
… the oil and gas companies will export overseas if they can make a buck off of it when prices ‘collapse’ in the US. This pretty much fracks the whole idea of drilling for ‘energy independence.’ The only thing independent here is the oil/gas company.
Ross Kelly, “Conoco Studying North America’s Gas Export Potential,” Rigzone, Dec. 8, 2011
Industrialized Cyclist Notepad 