Energy Forum News

05.12.16

Fossil Fuels May Not Dwindle Anytime Soon

The U. S. Energy Information Administration foresees continued dominance for coal, gas and oil.

 

05.08.16

Animated map shows all the major oil and gas pipelines in the U.S.

The United States is the world's largest consumer of oil, using more than 19.4 million barrels a day in 2015.

 

05.06.16

Feds Say Fracking Now Provides 67% Of US Natural Gas

Fracking accounted for a mere seven percent of total U.S. natural gas production in 2000 and produced 3.6 billion cubic feet of gas per day. By 2015, America produced 79 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day.

 

05.06.16

Sally Jewell: 'Keep it in the ground' protests 'naive'

"It's going to take a very long time before we can wean ourselves from fossil fuels, so I think that to keep it in the ground is naive, to say we could shift to 100 percent renewables is naive...""

 

04.23.16

Why Are They Hiding the Good News About Fracking?

There's no evidence -- zero, zilch, nada -- that fracking contaminates drinking water. Researchers hoped to keep these findings secret.

 

04.21.16

Oil tanker laden with North Dakota crude reaches Netherlands

It's the first such overseas shipment of the state's oil since Congress lifted a 40-year ban on crude export in December.

 

04.21.16

U.S. Shale Gas Bound for Europe After Leaving Cheniere

LNG coming out of the U.S. is probably the single most important thing that will transform the future LNG market... It heralds the arrival of a global market.

 

04.15.16

Retail gasoline prices this summer expected to be lowest since 2004

The U.S. Energy Information Administration forecasts that U.S. drivers will pay an average of $2.04 per gallon this summer for regular gasoline: 59 cents/gal lower than the average price last summer, and it would be the lowest average summer price since 2004.

 

04.13.16

Poll: Vast majority of voters are concerned about high ethanol mandates

Seventy-seven percent of registered voters are concerned that breaching the ethanol blend wall could drive up the cost of gasoline for consumers and reduce the nation's fuel supply (85 percent of Republicans, 75 percent of Democrats and 71 percent of Independents), according to a new poll of registered voters conducted by Harris Poll on behalf of API.

 

04.07.16

Wrong policies could hamstring US gas development, forum told

"This administration has issued a slew of regulations intended to stifle gas use," maintained former US Sen. George Allen from Virginia.