US: Natural gas rates going up 15 percent
Look for more future increases and don’t expect prices to roll back to past levels.
Natural Gas
US Natural Gas: Burning need
If volatile natural gas prices persist and the country continues without a policy to encourage more production, jobs will be exported and the country will continue to lose its core manufacturing business
Oil billionaire takes a gamble to fix natural-gas shortage
The Energy Bridge, with its tankers far beyond the horizon, eliminates the risk of explosions on land and thus sidesteps not-in-my-backyard controversies.
Argentina,Venezuela Fuel-For-Food Deal To Continue
BUENOS AIRES (Dow Jones)–Argentina and Venezuela will extend this year’s fuel-for-food accord over the coming years, giving Argentina the option to continue importing diesel and gasoil from its South American neighbor, if current gas and power shortages remain a problem.(Adds comments from Planning Minister De Vido’s spokesman saying this year’s $ 240 million fuel contract deal would be renewed in 2005.)
An insider speaks out
Matthew Simmons is both the ultimate insider and a challenging iconoclast.
Bolivian leader bets his future on gas referendum
Bolivians will decide Sunday how to develop the nation’s huge natural gas reserves in a referendum that is vital for President Carlos Mesa as he battles to stave off a revolt by indigenous Indians.
Argentina’s Phony Energy Crisis
The petrol consortiums and to some extent the governments of Bolivia, Argentina and Chile have woven a tapestry of distortion and cover-ups to hide crucial elements in the United States strategy of forced appropriation of Latin American natural resources.
Brinkmanship In The South Pacific
I would venture to speculate that the coming together of the strongest armada in history has more to do with oil and natural gas and nothing to do with Taiwan.
Report warns on soaring US natural gas prices
North America will experience the highest sustained natural gas prices in
history if no measures are taken to boost supply or damp demand, according to a
study released on Friday by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA).
Debate rages over rewards, risks of liquefied natural gas ports
Opponents say terrorists or earthquakes could turn the terminal’s vast stores of super-cooled gas into a mile-high fireball, destroying the port and scorching people and buildings a mile away in downtown Long Beach.
Ten steps to a sustainable energy future
This essay was in large parts presented at the
“Renewables 2004” in Bonn (June 3 2004) and at
“Lucerne Fuel Cell Forum” (June 29 2004).
The roles of hydrogen, oil, gas, coal and nuclear are reconsidered as well as the perspective of a energy system mainly based on renewable energy.
Canada: N.S. offshore energy suffers setback
Nova Scotia’s sluggish offshore energy sector has suffered another setback as several major energy companies have opted out of plans to spend up to $275-million on exploration.