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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 →
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 →
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 →
Red-state voters spend more of their disposable income on energy than those in blue states, and this election year that has them seeing, well, red.
That’s among the conclusions of an analysis of energy and presidential politics done by Kevin Book, Managing Director of Research for ClearView Energy Partners in Washington, DC. Keep reading →
North America’s emerging oil shale abundance can fundamentally alter the US’s energy landscape, but experts say the road ahead may have a lot of detours.
The issues start with how much new supply can get to market. Keep reading →
An oil drilling rig in the North Dakota portion of the Bakken formation.
Shale gas took America by surprise, and tight oil is about to do the same. Keep reading →
Alternative energy sources and technologies have been the beneficiaries of steadily rising prices for most forms of fossil fuels over the last 30 years, with political interference and technology innovations warping markets and price signals along the way.
But with massive oil and gas finds currently under development, the future looks distinctly choppy for the host of renewable and cleantech companies that have emerged in response to high prices and supply-side shocks like the Arab Spring. How the markets respond to the potential for falling prices and huge expansions in availability from Brazil, Iraq and smaller players as well as shale gas development was the subject of this panel at the US Association for Energy Economics Summit in Washington, DC, earlier this year. Keep reading →
“Information sharing is important,” Clay Bretches says here, and he should know. The Andarko Vice President headed up the coordinating subcommittee of the National Petroleum Council as it prepared its first comprehensive study of the outlook for US energy since 2007 this year.
The NPC has a deep history of evaluating US energy risks and opportunities, as it has complied and released studies since the Second World War. Its latest update takes into account the huge changes wrought by new applications of technologies in the natural gas sector, and Bretches says in this video that the resulting increased reserves should “meet even our highest projections of natural gas demand.” Keep reading →
Why is oil trading so concentrated in New York and London? Why do efforts to create new exchanges in the countries where most oil is produced so regularly fail? And why does the US dollar continue to dominate trading in commodities?
In this video, one of the most prominent energy economists in the world discusses the challenges of setting up new exchanges in new currencies and in new locations and gives a succinct description of the three reasons oil trading remains concentrated in existing centers even as consumption and production of energy continues to shift around the world. Keep reading →
