USAEE 2012

EIA Chief Discusses Storm Sandy Response, US Energy Production Sustainability and More

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Shell Oil President and Director Marvin Odum speaks during a plenary session on the first day of the Energy Information Administration energy conference April 26, 2011 in Washington, DC.

EIA Administrator Adam Sieminski highlighted the administration’s rapid response efforts during the recent hurricane crisis in the northeast and was enthusiastic about the organization’s prospects going forward while giving a breakfast presentation at the US Association of Energy Economics North American Conference in Austin, Texas. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 7, 2012 at 1:30 PM

North American Natural Gas Development Ripples Across Europe and Russia to Asian Markets

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The potential implications of recent North American natural gas production increases stretch across the globe, with knock-on impacts for gas trading patterns, regional supply-demand balances and even geopolitics.

These were all topics of discussion at a recent plenary session held during the 31st US Association for Energy Economics North American Conference in Austin, Texas, where analysts, economists, students and government officials from the US and other countries gathered this week. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 7, 2012 at 9:00 AM

As US Votes, Taxes and Environment are Election Focus at Energy Gathering

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A frenzy of speculation built across the energy sector in the US as the country went to the polls after a long and contentious campaign season. In contested counties in Ohio and Florida, early voting ran ahead of 2008 levels but analysts, energy voters and much of the world were settling in for an extended process of determining the president of the US.

In Austin, Texas where Breaking Energy has been covering the US Association for Energy Economics North America conference, the looming election was a subject of acknowledged importance, with both conference sessions and off-line discussions focusing on what the future would be like under an Obama or a Romney presidential term. At the same time, convention attendees speaking to Breaking Energy largely expressed relief that the campaign race might soon be over, and that they would be able to turn to meaningful long-term investment and market questions. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 6, 2012 at 7:30 PM

Energy Experience Balanced by Urgency: Opening USAEE

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Elite economists and analysts from around North America and the world gathered in Austin, Texas this week for the US Association for Energy Economics North America conference. Breaking Energy has been on the ground at the event, covering sustainable energy and anticipated impacts of the US presidential election, as well as responses to Hurricane Sandy.

Unusual for its diversity of approaches and subject areas, the USAEE conference mixes deep dives into areas of technical and financial analysis with broader sweeps of trends driving the business. The mix of attendees, which includes everything from Pulitzer Prize winning authors and senior energy company executives to college students, also balances the sector-specific discussions with valuable real-world and operational insight. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 6, 2012 at 9:30 AM

Putting the ‘Sustainable’ in Sustainable Energy Future

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As some of the world’s foremost energy experts from business, academia and government gathered in Austin, Texas for a major energy conference, the Northeastern US was still reeling from Hurricane Sandy’s devastation that took lives, homes and disrupted power and fuel delivery for millions of people. This stark reminder of how fragile US energy infrastructure can be makes the conference theme, “Transition to a Sustainable Energy Era: Opportunities and Challenges,” all the more timely and important.

The 31st US Association of Energy Economics/International Association of Energy Economics North American Conference kicked off this morning with an opening plenary session that was appropriately titled, “Putting the ‘Sustainable’ in Sustainable Energy Future.” Keep reading →

 /  Published November 5, 2012 at 5:00 PM

Ahead of the US Election, Energy Sector Prepares for a Pivot

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The US energy sector has been a rare bright spot through much of the past four years as first financial firms and then the rest of the global economy has struggled to recover from a grinding and often jobless recession.

Statistics about jobs vary, but any region with significant oil or gas resources has noted the uptick in employment in those sectors as development has accelerated. The most recent numbers from Pennsylvania’s Department of Labor and Industry, for example, show core employment in the Marcellus Shale developments in the state up by 177.5% from first quarter of 2009 to the first quarter of 2012, even as the state’s overall employment level has lagged that of the rest of the country. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 5, 2012 at 3:45 PM

What should the world’s top energy economists be discussing?

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 /  Published November 5, 2012 at 10:15 AM

Preparing For USAEE: Top Attendees Lay Out Their Priorities

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Economists at the National Economists Conference in February 2012.

Every attendee at the USAEE/IAEE conference this week has something important to add, from the university students giving their first professional presentations and preparing to enter a rapidly expanding industry to the former ambassadors and corporate chiefs gathered to headline sessions and lunches at the event Austin. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 4, 2012 at 6:30 PM

Energy’s ‘A Team’ – Facing Down Sector Disruption in Austin

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The past few years have brought a series of disruptions that have thrown economic models for the energy business out the window and prompted widespread reevaluations of what matters most for one of the world’s largest business sectors.

Each year the US Association for Energy Economics gathers top analysts from across the sector for a conference that highlights the latest research that drives decision making and future planning for billions upon billions of dollars in investment. This year’s USAEE/IAEE North American Conference is the 31st such event, and is happening during the climax of a high-stakes election season that has brought both the job-making potential of energy investment to the fore and highlighted the problems that can result when forecasts go awry. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 31, 2012 at 4:00 PM

North America’s Resource Endowment: Competitive Advantages

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The centrality of the shale revolution to a resurgence in the US economy has been widely examined but rarely given such thorough analytical backing as it is in this video from Rice University’s Professor Peter Hartley.

While Hartley’s comments on North America’s conventional and unconventional natural resource endowment and upside production potential preceded the high-profile release of Boston Consulting Group’s report on the potential for an immense resurgence in the US manufacturing and export sector this week, he notes the degree to which the region enjoys economic and geopolitical competitive advantages in an increasingly globalized international landscape. Keep reading →

 /  Published September 21, 2012 at 2:30 PM
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