Ed Ireland, PhD. is the leading expert on Barnett Shale issues from an educational and economic perspective.
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Dr. Ireland has met with hundreds of university faculties, community groups, city councils, state governmental agencies and interested ambassadors from other countries to advise them about the process and production of shale natural gas. He has lately hosted groups from Ghana, Poland, Japan, Turkmenistan and Brazil concerning potential shale gas development in those countries.
Dr. Ed Ireland is an energy economist who has spent many years in various positions in the energy profession, bookending production and marketing with education, first as an economics professor at Clemson University and lately as the Executive Director of the Barnett Shale Energy Education Council.
Dr. Ireland is adept at communicating with the press on issues surrounding the shale gas phenomenon. He has broad experience in countering anti-fossil fuel advocate claims as well as experience testifying before the Environmental Protection Agency, Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and various Texas state congressional committees.
History may be in the making. May 2013 is perhaps the first time ever that natural gas prices have increased on forecasts of warmer than normal temperatures in the coming summer months and, a few weeks later, fell on forecasts for milder weather in June. These developments are significant because natural gas has long been [...]
The year 2012 marked the 10-year anniversary of natural gas drilling and production in the Barnett Shale in North Texas. While a thousand or so Barnett Shale wells had been drilled in the 20 years after the first well was drilled in 1981, drilling activity blasted off in 2002. By year-end 2012, some 18,591 natural [...]
Manufactured issues relating to the natural gas and oil industry are unending. The industry is constantly defending itself against improper information that is either out of context or inaccurate. Case in point, in a recent press briefing, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney responded to a question concerning the sequester’s mandatory spending cuts by saying, “So [...]
