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Slump in Oil Prices Brings Pressure, and Investment Opportunity
Slump in Oil Prices Brings Pressure, and Investment Opportunity Now, as the cracks appear in the latest energy boom, the forces of failure and opportunity are stirring again. Resolute Energy, a Colorado company that borrowed big in the boom, is among those in an endgame that is being played up and down Wall Street and […]
Strikes: The Latest Threat Facing US Oil Industry
Strikes: The Latest Threat Facing US Oil Industry Workers are on strike at nine oil refineries and chemical plants around the United States in the largest such job action in 35 years. Members of the United Steelworkers union (USW) who are employed by more than 200 US oil terminals and pipelines as well as refineries […]
New Report Urges Western Governments to Reconsider Reliance on Biofuels
New Report Urges Western Governments to Reconsider Reliance on Biofuels Western governments have made a wrong turn in energy policy by supporting the large-scale conversion of plants into fuel and should reconsider that strategy, according to a new report from a prominent environmental think tank. Turning plant matter into liquid fuel or electricity is so inefficient that […]
The One Way Forward
The One Way Forward All things considered, 2015 just isn’t shaping up to be a good year for believers in business as usual. Since last week’s post here on The Archdruid Report, the anti-austerity party Syriza has swept the Greek elections, to the enthusiastic cheers of similar parties all over Europe and the discomfiture of the […]
Russia And China’s Growing Energy Relationship
Russia And China’s Growing Energy Relationship Russia’s economic freefall and isolation from the West has made it increasingly eager to build its relationship with China, even at the cost of lost leverage with Beijing. But new economic data from China shows that Russia has succeeded in capturing a larger share of the massive – and […]
HYPE, BROKEN PROMISES AND SHALES
HYPE, BROKEN PROMISES AND SHALES The term shale revolution has been used so much that it almost has no meaning anymore. But were shales ever really the energy panacea promised or merely a self styled hype machine? Would the frenzy in drilling ever have truly taken off if it weren’t for cheap money? These are […]
Oil Dinosaurs Face Extinction: State Oil Companies and the Meteor-Strike of Low Oil Prices
Oil Dinosaurs Face Extinction: State Oil Companies and the Meteor-Strike of Low Oil Prices State-owned oil companies that don’t slash expenses to align with revenues and boost critical investment in the infrastructure needed to maintain production will suffer financial extinction. Domestic and international energy companies are responding to the 50% decline in the price of […]
Our Renewable Future
Our Renewable Future Or, What I’ve Learned in 12 Years Writing about Energy (7000 words, about 25 minutes reading time) Folks who pay attention to energy and climate issues are regularly treated to two competing depictions of society’s energy options.* On one hand, the fossil fuel industry claims that its products deliver unique economic benefits, and […]
A new theory of energy and the economy – Part 1 – Generating economic growth
A new theory of energy and the economy – Part 1 – Generating economic growth How does the economy really work? In my view, there are many erroneous theories in published literature. I have been investigating this topic and have come to the conclusion that both energy and debt play an extremely important role in an […]
Nebraska’s Community-Owned Electricity System
Nebraska’s Community-Owned Electricity System In Nebraska, 121 publicly-owned utilities, 10 cooperatives, and 30 public power districts provide electricity to a population of around 1.8 million people. In the United States, there is one state, and only one state, where every single resident and business receives electricity from a community-owned institution rather than a for-profit corporation. It is […]
March of the Squirrels
March of the Squirrels Prediction is a difficult business at the best of times, but the difficulties seem to change from one era to another. Just now, at least for me, the biggest challenge is staying in front of the headlines. So far, the crash of 2015 is running precisely to spec. Smaller companies in the […]
EIA’s Short-Term Energy Outlook 2015 and 2016
EIA’s Short-Term Energy Outlook 2015 and 2016 The EIA has just released their Short-Term Energy Outlook for January. They have now included their predictions for 2016. Here is what they expect for US C+C. I have made the first projected production for December 2014 though the EIA says they have production data for December. All date is […]
Big Biomass 101: When Burning Wood for Energy Makes Sense
Big Biomass 101: When Burning Wood for Energy Makes Sense By David Dodge and Duncan Kinney The great boreal forest straddles the country and provinces from Nova Scotia to British Columbia have ample forestry resources. In a place like Canada biomass to energy can make a lot of sense. So we headed to the largest, […]
At Last The ‘Experts’ Wake Up To Oil
At Last The ‘Experts’ Wake Up To Oil Boy, did the ‘experts’ and ‘analysts’ drop the ball on this one, or what’s the story. Only today, Goldman’s highly paid analysts admitted they’ve been dead wrong from months, that their prediction that OPEC would cut production will not happen, and that therefore oil may go as […]
This Week In Energy: Asian Energy Empire Expansion
This Week In Energy: Asian Energy Empire Expansion This week saw WTI prices break the psychological $50 threshold, compounding trader and oil company woes further. However, recent price updates from certain shale areas in the U.S. would seem to indicate many producers arereceiving far less for their oil (as low as $34 per barrel in some […]
