- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 7, 2022
Green Policies Are Often Just Impoverishing Climate Elitism
Green Policies Vijay JayarajResearch Associate: CO2 Coalition.. .… … … [Editor’s Note: Fossil fuels are here to stay for the foreseeable future, despite the hype.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 31, 2022
Virginia Taking An Overdue Hard Look at Green Energy Scams
Virginia Paul DriessenSenior Policy Analyst, CFACT …. …. [Editor’s Note: Virginia has new leadership and is now taking a hard look at off-shore wind, solar, RGGI and other green energy scams that are only yielding energy pain.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 30, 2021
Intrusive Climate Act Scoping Plan Up for Public Comment
Climate Act Roger Caiazza (on the subject of)Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York’s Climate Act is an expensive, intrusive and unrealistic agenda being imposed on New Yorkers who need to rise up and comment on the “Scoping Plan.”]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 30, 2021
Energy Security This Winter Can’t Be Assured by Unreliables
Energy Security Vijay JayarajResearch Associate: CO2 Coalition.. .… … … [Editor’s Note: Energy security is threatened by energy policies favoring renewables a/k/a “unreliables” for the sake of transferring trillions of dollars to corporatist elites.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 23, 2021
NY Climate Act Is A Hollow Virtue Signaling Gesture
Climate Act Roger Caiazza (on the subject of)Independent Researcher and Publisher,Pragmatic Environmentalist of New York … [Editor’s Note: New York’s Climate Act is an exercise in hollow virtue signaling by Empire State’s elites and special interests who just want to feast on green eggs and scam!]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 9, 2021
Mozambique Needs Energy More Than Climate Action
Mozambique Robert Bradley, Jr.Founder and CEO of the Institute for Energy ResearchPrincipal, MasterResource: A Free-Market Energy Blog.. .… … [Editor’s Note: Mozambique is poor and trying to rise up by obtaining the energy needed to materially improve the lives of its citizens.ESG Is But A Corporatist Weapon to Wage War on Fossil Fuels
ESG Ronald SteinAmbassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) is but a tool being employed by corporatists such as Larry Fink to run the economy and government for their benefit.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 8, 2021
Glasgow Elites Imposing Carbon Corporatism and Imperialism
Glasgow Paul DriessenCFACT …. …. [Editor’s Note: Glagow (COP 26) has been purely corporatist enterprise; a business meeting of the world’s corporatists with cocktails for supportive government elites.]Crude Oil Is Essential to Life As We Know It, and the Future
crude oil Ronald SteinAmbassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: Modern life would be totally impossible without crude oil and the processes, including fracking, that are necessary to deliver it, so let’s promote that fact!]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 25, 2021
Clean Energy Exploitation Is Hurting the Most Vulnerable
Ron SteinFounder, PTS Advance … … [Editor’s Note: Ron Stein and Todd Royal are authors of”Clean Energy Exploitations,” a book to help citizens understand environmental and human abuses behind “clean energy.”]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 24, 2021
Africa Being Sold Out by Elites Drooling for Green New Deal
Duggan FlanakinDirector of Policy Research, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow … … [Editor’s Note: Those pushing the grand scheme to steal trillions from the public for green eggs and scam now propose to sacrifice Africa on their green altar to corporatism.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 5, 2021
Natural Gas Now Best Picks of the Week – June 5, 2021
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … Readers pass along a lot of stuff every week about natural gas, fractivist antics, emissions, renewables, and other news relating to energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 21, 2021
Africa Wisely Rejects Imperialist Demands To End Fossil Fuel Use
Duggan FlanakinDirector of Policy Research, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow … … [Editor’s Note: Africa is under siege by new imperialists, eco-imperialists, who want to impose green political correctness on the continent.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 13, 2021
Net Zero Is Just Trash Talk to An India Seeking to Lift Up Its Citizenry
Duggan FlanakinDirector of Policy Research, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow … … [Editor’s Note: The government of India refuses to kowtow to Western elitists trying to impose net zero carbon policies on a nation needing development.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 18, 2021
China Is the Threat But Our Media and Politicians Have Been Bought
... … …[Editor’s Note: China threatens our security and environment but has bought off big business, big tech, media and our political establishment.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- December 24, 2020
China Eco-Imperialism with Energy Threatens Future of All Africans
Duggan FlanakinDirector of Policy Research, Committee For A Constructive Tomorrow … … [Editor’s Note: China is exploiting the global warming policies of politically correct nations to put African nations under its imperialist thumb.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 12, 2020
Lithium Batteries Ain’t No Solution If You’re Worried About Pollution
... … … [Editor’s Note: Lithium batteries are at the heart of renewable energy storage plans but they are dirty, dangerous and pollute far more than fracking.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 25, 2020
Total, Mozambique sign security pact to support $20B LNG project
Total and the government of Mozambique have signed a security pact to support the development of the $20 billion Mozambique LNG project, amid an insurgency linked to Islamic State.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 20, 2020
Sonatrach, Wintershall eye further cooperation in Algeria
Wintershall Dea is looking into expanding its activities and operations in Algeria, Africa’s largest natural gas producer, Kallanish Energy reports. The German oil and gas company signed a two-year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with Algerian state-owned Sonatrach to explore cooperation possibilities in the country.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 17, 2020
Sonatrach reiterates efforts to boost Algeria’s gas production
Sonatrach’s CEO said Saturday the company is doubling its efforts to increase hydrocarbons production in order to preserve Algeria’s energy security and its foreign exchange earnings.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 3, 2020
Total Gabon divests seven mature offshore fields
French oil and gas major Total has announced that its Gabon affiliate is to divest seven mature offshore oil fields, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 24, 2020
Algeria’s Sonatrach restarts Skikda LNG plant
Algeria’s state-owned oil and gas company, Sonatrach, has resumed operations at its Skikda liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant after a 7-month stoppage, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 22, 2020
Algeria’s O&G revenues to plunge by $10B this year: minister
Algeria’s hydrocarbons revenue is expected to fall by $10 billion this year, the country’s energy minister Abdelmadjid Attar said on Tuesday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 9, 2020
Libyan officials meet Eni, NOC CEOs to discuss partnership
The head of the presidential council of the Libyan Government of National Accord, Fayez al-Sarraj, met Eni’s CEO Claudio Descalzi and his counterpart at the national oil company NOC, Mustafa Sanalla, on Wednesday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 3, 2020
Nigeria commences works at AKK gas pipeline
Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari has launched construction works on NNPC’s $2.59 billion natural gas pipeline, Kallanish Energy reports. Once complete, the 614-kilometer Ajaokuta-Kaduna-Kano (AKK) gas pipeline project will transport 2.2 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) of gas to the domestic market.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 26, 2020
Sonatrach, Total extend LNG supply deal for 3-years
Algeria’s state oil and gas company, Sonatrach, announced on Thursday it has renewed its supply of liquefied natural gas (LNG) to Total for a further three years, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 24, 2020
Mozambique LNG secures $2.25B from host government
Total-led liquefied natural gas project, Mozambique LNG, has reportedly been offered a five-year, $2.25 billion funding guarantee from the Mozambican government.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 11, 2020
MENA LNG projects to face delays: analyst
Liquefaction projects in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region are likely to be put off due to the economic slowdown brought up by the Covid-19 pandemic, according to analytics company GlobalData.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 5, 2020
Mozambique’s LNG projects on track despite Covid-19: official
Mozambique’s national petroleum institute INP said on Thursday the country’s natural gas and liquefaction projects remain in line with the schedule agreed between the government and investing companies.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 22, 2020
Total agrees $15B funding for Mozambique LNG: reports
French oil major Total has reportedly secured roughly $15 billion in financing for Mozambique LNG – a project it operates with a 26.5% share acquired from Anadarko, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 19, 2020
Total walks away from Oxy’s Ghana asset deal
French oil major Total said Monday it’s walking away from the acquisition of Occidental Petroleum’s Ghana assets, after the Algeria deal was blocked, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 14, 2020
NLNG signs $4B contract for its Train 7 project
Nigeria LNG (NLNG) signed on Wednesday the engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) contract for its Train 7 project at Bonny Island LNG complex, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 28, 2020
SDX Energy makes new gas discovery onshore Egypt
UK-listed oil and gas company SDX Energy has successfully flow tested its new onshore gas discovery in Nile Delta, Egypt, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 9, 2020
BP to delay Greater Tortue Ahmeyin LNG project by one year
British oil major BP seeks to delay first gas on its operated Greater Tortue Ahmeyin project by one year due to the coronavirus pandemic, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 6, 2020
Mozambican learders must tackle security issues: Ayuk
Mozambican leaders must tackle security problems emerging in sites where international companies are developing liquefied natural gas (LNG) projects, NJ Ayuk, chairman of the African Energy Chamber warned this week.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 6, 2020
Nigeria to back $2.6B AKK gas pipeline project
Nigeria’s finance minister Zainab Ahmed announced this week the government will back the construction of the $2.59 billion AKK gas pipeline with a sovereign guarantee, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 5, 2020
SDX Energy to open new gas play onshore Morocco
London-listed, MENA-focused oil and gas company SDX Energy announced Wednesday a fresh gas discovery onshore Morocco, opening up a new play in the country, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 28, 2020
Eni ups Agogo field’s resources by 40%
Italian oil major Eni Thursday announced a 40% increase of estimated oil-in-place volumes at the Agogo oilfield, offshore Angola, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 28, 2020
Egypt’s Damietta LNG plant to restart by June: Eni
Egypt’s Damietta liquefaction plant will restart by June of this year, after an amicable resolution to an eight-year dispute between investors and the Egyptian government, Eni said Thursday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 26, 2020
Africa Energy Situation and Future Suffers from NGO Condescension
Steve HeinsEnergy Consultant, Business Writer and Practical Environmentalist“The Practical Environmentalist and Word Merchant” … Africa is making progress but the condescension of NGOs and supposed world leadership toward the continent is reflected in politically correct energy help.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 26, 2020
Libya’s oil production continues to plunge
Blockades at Libyan ports and pipelines have taken away 1.09 million barrels per day (Mmbpd) of crude production from the North African country, resulting in revenue losses of $2.10 billion, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 11, 2019
Economist Says “You’ll Be Better Off Without What We Have, Trust Us”
Tom Shepstone Natural Gas NOW The Economist, a trendy journal read by those who consider themselves more worldly than the rest of us, says electricity doesn’t help the poor all that much.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 6, 2019
Nigeria’s Oando announces onshore discovery
Nigerian energy firm Oando announced Wednesday a “significant” gas and condensate discovery onshore Niger Delta, Kallanish Energy reports. The Obiafu-41 Deep Well reached a depth of 14,350 feet encountering an accumulation of 426 feet of high-quality hydrocarbon-bearing sands.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 4, 2019
Angola launches offshore bidding round
Angola’s National Agency for Petroleum, Gas and Biofuels (Anpg) on Tuesday launched its 2019 licensing round at a presentation in the capital city of Luanda, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 24, 2019
Qatar Petroleum enters blocks offshore Kenya
State-owned oil firm Qatar Petroleum announced Tuesday the acquisition of interests in three blocks in offshore Kenya, Kallanish Energy reports. The L11A, L11B and L12 blocks are located in the Lamu Basin, in the eastern part of the country, covering 5,790 square miles in water depths between 3,280 feet and 9,840 feet in the Indian Ocean.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 4, 2019
Africa Oil in South African block farmout
Canadian firm African Oil announced Wednesday a farmout agreement with Namibian company Azinam Ltd. to acquire interests in a block offshore South Africa, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 17, 2019
Golar secures $700M for LNG project
Bermuda-based company Golar announced Tuesday its subsidiary, Gimi MS, received $700 million in financing for a floating liquified natural gas (Flng) project, Kallanish Energy understands.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 12, 2019
BP awards Baker Hughes, McDermott for African natgas project
Oil and gas giant BP Monday awarded underwater equipment contracts to industrial service company Baker Hughes, a GE company (Bhge), and to engineering/procurement/construction/installation firm McDermott International, Kallanish Energy learns.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 19, 2019