Federal regulators recently rejected an application to build a liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facility on the coast of Oregon after three years in regulatory limbo – a project that had received “unflagging support” from editorial boards, variously hailed as an “economic game-changer for Coos Bay” that offered “a way to tamp down Russia’s influence in Europe.”
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The U.S. Government Should Support Natural Gas Exports
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By Rugigana KavamahangaThe historic conundrum of developing Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) as a marine fuel has a chicken versus egg element to it. Vessel operators interested in LNG are hesitant to make the commitment to build and/or convert ships to LNG without a guaranteed fuel supply. There is plenty of capital willing to build LNG liquefaction facilities,… Keep reading →
How Latin American LNG Markets And U.S. Exports Are Reshaping the LNG Market
By King & SpaldingBLM Issues First Federal Regulations For Hydraulic Fracturing
By Roshanda Cayette-Contreras, Lillian Forero, Catherine M. Krupka, Daniella Landers, Takcus Nesbit | Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLPAdd the heft of Rice University’s respected Center for Energy Studies to the weight of scholarly analysis urging an end to America’s four-decades-old ban on domestic crude oil exports. In a new study, the center lays out a case for U.S. crude oil exports that builds on the findings of IHS, ICF, Brookings, the Aspen… Keep reading →
Crude Oil Exports: A View from the 114th Congress
By June DeHart | Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLPThe 114th Congress convened January 3 with energy at the top of its agenda. Both the House and the Senate kicked off the new session with approval of the Keystone XL Pipeline. That was just the start. Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK), the new Chairwoman of the Senate Energy Committee, has promised comprehensive energy legislation based on her Energy 2020 agenda.
Oil Output Seen Rising, despite fall in Its Price NY Times: Even with oil prices continuing to plummet and oil companies decommissioning drilling rigs every day, the Energy Department on Tuesday projected that domestic crude production would continue to rise in 2015, although growth would slow. The forecast of even more American supplies on an… Keep reading →
Amendments to EU Sanctions against Russia
By Miriam Gonzalez, Jeremy Zucker | Dechert LLPGood Energy Policy, More American Energy Benefits
By Energy Tomorrow BlogWill Alderman Revive This Ethanol Ruse? Chicago Tribune Editorial: Last summer the Chicago City Council briefly considered an ordinance that would require gas stations in the city to sell a blend of fuel called E15, which has the potential to damage your car engine. An E15 mandate is a patently bad idea. Changing pumps to… Keep reading →
Is It Time for the U.S. to Lift Its Restrictions on Oil Exports? Wall Street Journal (Jason Bordoff): It’s a whole new oil world for the U.S. After decades of declining domestic oil production, the country is in the middle of an unexpected boom. Driven by new technology that reaches previously inaccessible reserves, production has soared… Keep reading →