Fraud allegation turns up heat in Lago Agrio case
July 16, 2010
Chevron Corp. has raised stakes in the legal battle it calls a “runaway farce” over environmental damage in Ecuador. |
Economic spurt may not give oil use a normal push
July 9, 2010
Under normal circumstances, enlarged expectations for a recovering global economy would be good news for oil markets. But what, nowadays, is normal? |
A changed market able to absorb jolt will change again
July 2, 2010
A supply scare happened in May that not so long ago would have pushed up crude oil prices by $5/bbl or more. Prices instead declined. |
Offshore spill not a reason to oppose an onshore pipeline
June 25, 2010
Follow the logic: A blowout in deep water causes a massive oil spill that soils beaches, disables wildlife, and disrupts fishing and tourism; therefore, a pipeline that would carry oil produced onshore over land shouldn’t be built. Isn’t something missing here? |
Defeat of Sanders energy blooper a signal to Obama
June 18, 2010
An important, mid-June test of the post-Macondo political mood favored the oil and gas industry. |
Interpretation might haunt Whitehall's green transparency
June 11, 2010
A new step toward energy transparency by the UK government may become something for the government itself to regret. |
Presidential power limited in blowouts and energy market
June 4, 2010
The inability to meet impossible standards is not a license for demagoguery. |
Flow rate dust-up shows discomfort with imprecision
May 21, 2010
Of all the concerns raised by the Macondo blowout in the Gulf of Mexico, imprecision of the flow rate should rank low on a scale of urgency. |
Past discussion of BOP problems is not scandalous
May 14, 2010
A blow to credibility must not limit the oil and gas industry’s ability to discuss technical problems. |
OCS leasing loses bargaining clout in politics of climate
May 7, 2010
As a bargaining tool in the politics of climate change, expansion of oil and gas leasing off the US always has raised problems. |
Hate derivatives? How can you like cap-and-trade?
April 30, 2010
Political gyrations over financial and energy reform camouflage a wicked hypocrisy. |
What can happen did happen in the Gulf of Mexico
April 23, 2010
The offshore oil and gas industry deals constantly with what can happen. Nearly all the time, it does so successfully. The exception is what changes everything. |
Chevron elicits rebuke of '60 Minutes' smear
April 16, 2010
Chevron has scored public-relations points in its legal quagmire in Ecuador—against the television network CBS, no less. |
Promises on new OCS leasing tend to be backwards
April 9, 2010
Listening to the Obama administration discuss expanded Outer Continental Shelf leasing is like looking through the wrong end of a telescope. Everything seems backwards. |
GAO: Energy Star program 'vulnerable to fraud and abuse'
April 2, 2010
If you planned to apply for an Energy Star rebate for that gasoline-powered alarm clock you’ve been admiring, you’re too late. |
Health-care tactics raise new worry in oil and gas issues
March 19, 2010
An industry loathed by the political left should cringe at audacious manipulations deployed in service to unpopular legislation for reform of US health care. |
Money and credit changes seen as threats to oil price
March 12, 2010
In the unusually complex oil market of the present, producers might profitably expect prices to swoon soon and hope events prove them wrong. |
Study: US needs $7/gal gasoline to meet CO2 aims
March 5, 2010
Meeting goals set by the Obama administration for carbon dioxide emissions would require sharp increases in fuel prices and strict regulation, a new report says. |
Frac fluid fears show capacity for inconsistency
February 26, 2010
Controversy over hydraulic fracturing fluids and their possible effect on drinking water demonstrates the boundless human capacity for inconsistency. |
Oil demand lift from icy weather not a sure thing
February 12, 2010
Shouldn’t a cold Northern Hemisphere winter give oil demand, struggling to recover from recessionary doldrums, a huge lift? Maybe not. |