US: Fertilizer plants shut down
Three stories regarding the pressures of high energy costs on farmers and nitrogen fertilizer producers.
Natural Gas
The Mother Of All Oil Shocks Is Looming
In a few years, the global production of conventional oil will fall, while the global demand continues to rise. The resulting shock of this structural oil famine is inevitable, so great are the dependency of our economies on cheap oil and. related to the first, our inability to wean ourselves from this dependency in a short period of time.
UK: Growing concern over gas imports
Today gas has never been more vital to the UK’s energy needs, and never more of a possible future strategic and political concern.
Algeria blast to hit LNG exports, importers calm
LONDON, Jan 20 (Reuters) – A huge explosion at the Skikda liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant in Algeria will hit the country’s gas exports to southern Europe but importers played down the impact on Tuesday saying they had plenty of alternative suppliers
Lehman Sees US Gas Supply Down 3% In 2003, Down 1% In 2004
NEW YORK -U.S. natural gas supply declined last year and should continue to do so in 2004, but at a slower pace, according to a report by Lehman Brothers.
Natural Gas Updates – A Dark And Cold Future
Evidence of a looming North American Natural Gas crisis.
US: Utility bills skyrocket due to higher oil and natural gas prices
Utility bills are soaring this winter, hurting homeowners and businesses alike, for reasons that have less to do with nasty weather than with tight supplies of natural gas and oil.
US: Demand outpaces gas production
The natural gas industry faces a year of conflicting extremes in 2004.
Educating Arnie about LNG safety
AUSTRALIA has offered to send technical experts to the US to convince the California administration of Arnold Schwarzwenegger that liquefied natural gas plants can be environmentally safe and secure.
Managing America’s Natural Gas “Crisis”
Sharp increases in short-term natural gas prices have prompted some to call for more drilling on public lands and fewer environmental safeguards on gas exploration and use. This January 2004 NRDC analysis confirms emphatically what U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham has already acknowledged: the fastest, cheapest and cleanest forms of relief from these increases come from more efficient use of natural gas.
Coal May Shine Again
US – When natural gas prices spike, coal begins to sparkle. Back in 1990, amendments to the Clean Air Act passed, and many environmentalists breathed easier. Toxic emissions would be drastically cut, and as a consequence, electric utilities began to increasingly rely on natural gas because of its low cost and emissions. Coal’s foes began numbering coal’s days
Unity needed for Kiwi continuity
NEW ZEALAND – As this country continues hurtling towards the serious gas supply shortages predicted for 2005-06, commentators are hoping and praying for a less fractious and fragmented year than 2003.