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 [...]
Emissions of carbon dioxide in the U.S. are now lower than they were in the year 2000 and are expected to continuing declining, according to the U. S. Energy Information Agency (EIA) in their “Annual Energy Outlook 2012.” Furthermore, the EIA says that carbon dioxide emissions in the electricity-generating sector fell so much in the [...]
Based on the recent experience with shale gas, the price of crude oil will be trending down, assuming of course that politics does not get in the way and the Middle East situation does not deteriorate. We are talking about the underlying price trend here not short-term price fluctuations. Just look at the recent history [...]
We don’t give a second thought to many things in our daily lives until those things become hard to get or costly. We don’t think about where electricity comes from when we turn on a light switch nor do we give much thought to the many steps it takes for gasoline to be readily available [...]
Ever since the Environmental Defense Fund published a paper by Al Armendariz in 2009 alleging that emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from natural gas operations in the Barnett Shale are greater than VOCs from all the cars and trucks in the region, the statement has been repeated over and over as if it were fact (for [...]
