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Last week the Department of Energy gave approval to the Freeport LNG export terminal. Combined with an earlier approval at Sabine Pass, the U.S. has now committed the first 2.4 billion cubic feet of natural gas it produces each day over the next 20 years to foreign consumers -- because under...
In our article US LNG Exports: March Madness and the Road to the Final Four Projects, we predicted that Freeport LNG would make it to the final round of US LNG export projects approved by the US Department of Energy (DOE). According to a Freeport LNG news release issued on Friday...
The Council of Canadians is looking to help Stephen Harper with Ottawa's budget deficit. It's surprising - someone should check to see if pigs can actually fly - given the long-standing animosity between the left-wing citizens' group and Harpers' right-wing Conservative government, but it is tough to...
Chevron Corp. will become the first major oil company to partner with YPF SA to develop shale oil and a final deal is expected in July, YPF said. Miguel Galuccio, chief executive officer of YPF, and Ali Moshiri, Chevron’s head of Latin America, Middle East and Africa , visited...
Agency implements rule requiring companies to disclose information regarding the use of certain industrial chemical substances commonly used in natural gas and oil well drilling. On May 9, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Direct Final Rule identifying 15 chemical...
New Brunswick’s chief medical officer of health is voicing concerns about the government’s plan for shale gas development in the province. On Thursday, the government released a shale gas blueprint highlighting six main objectives, but Dr. Eilish Cleary says health isn’t one of them.
The Obama administration has signalled support for more plants to export liquefied natural gas, as the US embraces its surging energy production as a key new element of its national security policy. Barack Obama said at the weekend the US was likely to be a net gas exporter by 2020, the...
Part of what makes debates about energy confusing to many is that the language of resource depletion allows one to make strong and accurate claims to justify widely divergent positions. Of course, we are running out of fossil fuels; they take millions of years to replace. Yes, we will never...
Petrel Energy's associate Schuepbach Energy International expects to drill in late May or early June, the first two core holes at its Uruguay unconventional oil and gas play.The locations for the two core holes have been carefully selected to confirm basic reservoir parameters critical for oil generation...
SWN Resources will be operating again in New Brunswick this summer and will be testing to see if the company has a viable chance of developing a shale gas industry in the province. The company was forced to abandon its seismic testing plans last summer because of delays in obtaining the necessary...