WSJ REPOST: Coal has improbably risen to become one of the top issues of the presidential campaign, with dueling ads about coal in swing states and attacks by each candidate on the other’s position. The battle is escalating even though coal employment is just a shadow of what it was a few decades ago and its use in power generation
WSJ REPOST: Secretary of State Hillary Clinton on Thursday described “energy diplomacy” as a driving force behind U.S. foreign policy and offered a spirited defense of the Obama administration’s foreign-policy record. She also took swipes at rivals, including China and Russia, which she said have used energy as a geopolitical or trade weapon. “Fundamentally, energy is an issue of wealth and
NATURAL GAS INVENTORY (Week Ended 10/5/12) Current: 3,725 Bcf Actual Injection/(Withdrawal): 72 Bcf Economist Average Estimate: 79 Bcf Previous: 3,653 Bcf Click here for the chart with five year averages. NATURAL GAS IN THE MEDIA *Houston firm drilling exploratory well in NY shale – Houston Chronicle A Houston company has begun drilling a vertical well to explore the potential of
CRUDE OIL INVENTORY/’000 bbls (Week Ended 10/5/12) Current: 366,370 Actual Build/(Withdrawal): 1,672 Economist Average Estimate: 773 Previous: 364,698 Click here for the chart with five year averages. CRUDE OIL IN THE MEDIA *Continental Resources says Oklahoma discovery may add 1.8 billion barrels – Tulsa World Continental Resources Inc. says a shale-oil discovery in Oklahoma may add the equivalent of 1.8 billion
Every Thursday, EnerCom’s Oil & Gas 360® will deliver media stories, company updates, and research commentary covering the natural gas spectrum. The theme for this week: Make No Debate: The U.S. Kicks Gas. NATURAL GAS INVENTORY (Week Ended 9/28/12) Current: 3,653 Bcf Actual Injection/(Withdrawal): 77 Bcf Economist Average Estimate: 72 Bcf Previous: 3,765 Bcf Click here for the chart with
CRUDE OIL INVENTORY/’000 bbls (Week Ended 9/28/12) Current: 364,698 Actual Build/(Withdrawal): (482) Economist Average Estimate: 1,486 Previous: 365,180 Click here for the chart with five year averages. CRUDE OIL IN THE MEDIA *Presidential debate could shed light on energy issues – Politico Wednesday’s presidential debate offers one of the final chances to pin down the candidates on the energy issues
Every Thursday, EnerCom’s Oil & Gas 360® will deliver media stories, company updates, and research commentary covering the natural gas spectrum. The theme for this week: Natural Gas and the Political Season. NATURAL GAS INVENTORY (Week Ended 9/14/12) Current: 3,496 Bcf Actual Injection/(Withdrawal): 67 Bcf Economist Average Estimate: 65 Bcf Previous: 3,429 Bcf Click here for the chart with five
Every Wednesday, EnerCom’s Oil & Gas 360® will deliver media stories, company updates, and research commentary covering the crude oil spectrum. The theme for this week: Look Out Below! Crude Oil Plunges. CRUDE OIL INVENTORY/000 bbls (Week Ended 9/14/12) Current: 367,626 Actual Injection/(Withdrawal): 8,534 Economist Average Estimate: 433 Previous: 359,092 Click here for the chart with five year averages. CRUDE
NATURAL GAS INVENTORY (Week Ended 8/17/12) Current: 3,308 Bcf Actual Injection/(Withdrawal): 47 Bcf Economist Average Estimate: 40 Bcf Previous: 3,261 Bcf Click here for the chart with five year averages. NATURAL GAS IN THE MEDIA *Romney to Declare Goal of US Energy Independence by 2020 – CNBC Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney will lay out policies on Thursday aimed at
Set aside that we’re in the season of rhetoric, half-truths and innuendos, and that the oil and gas industry is being kicked around like a football and POTUS prefers basketball (what did U.K. Prime Minister David Cameron really think about President Obama taking him to a play-in college game in Dayton in March? I would expect the Prime Minister would
In a rhetoric-filled campaign speech on March 29, President Obama sought to pit one American against another when he told members of Congress that they could “stand with big oil companies, or they can stand with the American people.” Oil & Gas 360® says: “Come on, Man! Can’t we find a way to work (stand) together?” On January 26, 2012,
