- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 14, 2022
Crude Oil, Not Breezes and Sunshine, Sustains Society
Crude Oil, Not Breezes and Sunshine, Sustains Society Ronald Stein Ambassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: Crude oil and natural gas are what sustain our civil society as we know it.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 6, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – August 6, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – August 6, 2022 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.EVs Face Very Dark Clouds and Storms Ahead!
EVs Face Very Dark Clouds and Storms Ahead! Ronald SteinAmbassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: EVs face a very stormy future despite all the hype from special interests and many of the problems stem from the same old storage problem which demands lithium.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 9, 2022
RGGI May Be Woke, But Pennsylvanians Will Go Broke
RGGI May Be Woke, But Pennsylvanians Will Go Broke Dr. Jay Lehr Sr. Policy Analyst – International Climate Science CoalitionTom HarrisEx.EVs Are Unethical and No Solution to High Gas Prices
EVs Are Unethical and No Solution to High Gas Prices Ronald SteinAmbassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: It’s time to stop kidding ourselves; EVs are unethical, uneconomical and unsafe.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 26, 2022
A Crude Oil Export Ban Would Hurt, Rather Than Help American Energy Consumers
With gasoline prices soaring, the Biden administration is scrambling to find a way to give Americans some relief at the pump—including bringing back a ban on crude oil exports.Stockholm +50 Gabfest Won’t Address the Absolute Need for Oil
Stockholm +50 Gabfest Won’t Address the Absolute Need for Oil Ronald SteinAmbassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: The Stockholm +50 get-together will be yet another gabfest among the world’s corporatists and their useful idiots that fails to address the absolute need for oil!.]Fossil Fuels, Essential to Life, Are in Biden’s Crosshairs
Fossil Fuels, Essential to Life, Are in Biden’s Crosshairs Ronald SteinAmbassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: Joe Biden, reading the teleprompter, says he wants to rid the world of fossil fuels and hasn’t a clue as to what he’s destroying; the stuff of life itself.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 11, 2022
Dallas Fed Explains Retail Gasoline Prices Are Beyond the Control of U.S. Oil Companies
The claims that U.S. oil companies are gouging Americans at the pump aren’t supported by the economics of a global oil market and the retail dynamics of gasoline, according to the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas’ recent analysis.Fossil Fuels Created and Enable Modern Life, So Suck It Up Idiots!
Fossil Fuels Created and Enable Modern Life, So Suck It Up! Ronald SteinAmbassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .…Natural Gas Now Best Picks – February 26, 2022
natural gas now 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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- February 23, 2022
Hydrocarbon Processing Is the Secret Sauce of Modern Life
Hydrocarbon Processing Is the Secret Sauce of Modern Life Ronald SteinAmbassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, CA .. .… … [Editor’s Note: Hydrocarbon processing is the foundation of much of modern day society.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 16, 2022
ESG Is Modern Day Fascism and It Is Going to Be Deadly
ESG Is Modern Day Fascism and It Is Going to Be Deadly Ronald SteinAmbassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California ..- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 24, 2022
Ottawa Goes Ga-Ga for ESG and Places Itself in Big Danger
Ottawa Ronald SteinAmbassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: Ottawa, like so many foolish cities, has opted to go whole hog for ESG.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 18, 2022
ESG Means Extreme Shortages Guaranteed!
ESG Ronald SteinAmbassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: ESG, the acronym for the disingenuous environmental, social, governance program of hedge-funders to pursue more power and money, really means energy shortages.]Decarbonize? Only If You Want A Winter of Discontent!
Decarbonize? Only If You Want A Winter of Discontent! Ronald SteinAmbassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: Make no mistake, Joe Biden’s controllers want the world to decarbonize to make way for the scheme by which they hope to make trillions from green eggs and scam.]California Virtue Signaling Ruining Economy and Environment
Cakifornia Ronald SteinAmbassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: Gavin Newsom, the pretty boy trust-funder who runs the California like he is playing a game of Risk, is ruining the Golden State economy and environment.]Crude Oil Production Here Attacked by Biden As He Begs OPEC!
Crude Oil Ronald SteinAmbassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: Joe Biden, acting as the paid puppet of globalists who want an energy dependent America, is attacking crude oil production her as he begs OPEC for more oil!]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.]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!]Gavin Newsom Exports Emissions and Imports Energy Dependence
Newsom Ronald SteinAmbassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: California’s elitist and stylish Governor Gavin Newsom is leading the state into ever increasing energy dependence on others so as to shift emissions onto them.]Our Medical Industry and Food Supply Depend on Fossil Fuels
medical industry Ronald SteinAmbassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: Fossil fuels are essential to our medical industry and our food supply chain, so playing green eggs and scam games with them is a dangerous endeavor, indeed!]Fossil Fuels Decisions Shouldn’t Be A Game of Risk with No Safety Net
fossil fuels Ronald SteinAmbassador for Energy & Infrastructure, Irvine, California .. .… … [Editor’s Note: Those who wish to abolish fossil fuels need to start addressing the risks before plunging ahead because the danger to civilization without a safety net is huge.]Hydraulic Fracturing Equals Energy Security: A Ban Would Be Insane
Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. … … The Department of Energy just issued a comprehensive report about the dangers of banning hydraulic fracturing in this country.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 27, 2020
China Does Renewables Head Fake: Builds Energy Reserves with WuFlu
... … … [Editor’s Note: China let its virus loose upon the world and is now using it to build energy reserves, while pretending to be a renewables leader.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 30, 2020
Antero Resources reports 3Q net loss of $536M
Antero Resources reported a net loss of $536 million or $1.99 per diluted share in the third quarter 202, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 30, 2020
ConocoPhillips reports 3Q net loss of $450M
ConocoPhillips has reported a third quarter 2020 net loss of $450 million or 42 cents per share, Kallanish Energy reports. That compares to 3Q 2019 net earnings of $3.1 billion or $2.74 per share.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 30, 2020
Six contractors hired to build Keystone XL in US
TC Energy on Thursday awarded more than $1.6 billion in contracts to six major American contractors to build more than 800 miles of the now-stalled Keystone XL Pipeline in three states in 2021, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 26, 2020
Oil future at center of Trump-Biden debate
The future of the oil and gas industry and climate change emerged key topics in the final presidential debate between President Donald Trump and former vice president Joe Biden.North American rig count increases by eight: BH
The North American rig count continued inching upward in the latest count from Baker Hughes, Kallanish Energy reports. The U.S. count increased by five rigs and the Canadian count increased by three rigs in the Oct.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 23, 2020
Kinder Morgan reports $455M profit in 3Q 2020
Texas-based pipeline operator Kinder Morgan reported a net gain of $455 million or 20 cents per share in the third quarter 2020, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 23, 2020
EQT reports $601M loss in 3Q 2020
EQT, the largest producer of natural gas in the United States, reported a net loss of $601 million or $2.35 in the third quarter 2020, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 23, 2020
CNOOC’s Q3 revenues down 27%, production up 5%
China’s CNOOC said on Thursday its third-quarter revenues declined 26.8% year-on-year dragged down by low oil prices, Kallanish Energy reports. The company noted in its quarterly operational update that revenues dropped to RMB 35.55 billion, with its realized oil prices falling 29.3% to average $43.03 per barrel.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 22, 2020
Baker Hughes reports $170M loss in 3Q
Baker Hughes on Wednesday reported a third quarter 2020 net loss of $170 million or 25 cents per share, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 21, 2020
2021 poised to be ‘bumper year’ for upstream M&A: WoodMac
2021 could be a bumper year for upstream M&A with deals potentially reaching $10-15 billion in the Asia Pacific region, Wood Mackenzie said on Tuesday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 20, 2020
ConocoPhillips, Concho announce $9.7B merger
ConocoPhillips and Concho Resources on Monday announced they have entered into a definitive agreement to combine companies in an all-stock transaction worth $9.7 billion, Kallanish Energy reports.US rig count increases by 13 rigs: Baker Hughes
The newest United States rig count was the type that oil and gas operators have been dreaming about since March after months of declining rig counts, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 12, 2020
Warren bows out as Energy Transfer CEO
Texas-based Energy Transfer has announced that long-time company executives Mackie McCrea and Tom Long have been named as co-chief executive officers.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 12, 2020
Judge throws out Obama’s 2016 methane rules
A federal judge in Wyoming has ruled that Obama-era rules targeting methane leaks from oil and natural gas operations on public lands are illegal, Kallanish Energy reports.US rig count up 3, Canada count up 5: Baker Hughes
Texas got three new drilling rigs at work in the latest count by Baker Hughes, the Texas-based well services company. New Mexico also got one new rig but Pennsylvania lost one rig in the Oct.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 9, 2020
O&G are vital to U.S. way of life: DOE report
A new report by the U.S. Department of Energy cites the need for energy innovation while recognizing the benefits of oil and natural gas in the daily lives of Americans, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 7, 2020
Premier Oil agrees ‘reverse takeover’ with Chrysaor
London-based independent Premier Oil announced on Tuesday it will merge with UK-based E&P firm Chrysaor, Kallanish Energy reports. Premier will merger with Chrysoar through a “reverse takeover” announced on Tuesday with Chrysaor’s parent company, Harbour Energy.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 7, 2020
BHP to acquire further 28% stake in Shenzi field
Anglo-Australian multinational mining, metals and petroleum firm, BHP, is to acquire a 28% stake in the Shenzi oil and gas field from Hess Corporation, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 6, 2020
Energy transition poses credit risks to NOCs: Moody’s
National oil companies (NOC) are less prepared for the energy transition than their counterparts in the private sector, which increases their credit risks, Moody’s said Monday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 2, 2020
Diversification may be crucial for pipeline operators: GlobalData
The global oil and gas pipeline sector might be better off looking for “new opportunities” and be prepared for “future disasters,” GlobalData warned on Thursday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 2, 2020
Australia’s upstream M&A market to reach $27B amid energy transition
Australia’s upstream M&A market could see up to $27 billion worth of assets put for sale, a new analysis by Wood Mackenzie estimated on Thursday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 1, 2020
US onshore oil production to dip in late 2020: RE
United States onshore oil production is expected to gradually decline in late 2020, after peaking in August, Rystad Energy reported on Wednesday.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 1, 2020
Indigenous group may buy stake in Keystone XL
Alberta-based TC Energy and Natural Law Energy have signed a memorandum of understanding for indigenous First Nation groups to pursue an equity interest in the Keystone XL oil pipeline.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 30, 2020
Shell to slash up to 9,000 jobs by 2022
Royal Dutch Shell announced Wednesday it will cut up to 9,000 jobs worldwide by the end of 2022 under its ongoing transformational plan, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 30, 2020
Oil demand, supply expected to drop 2022-2023: CP
ConocoPhillips expects the oil and natural gas industry to partially recover in 2021 from the coronavirus pandemic, low demand and low prices, but the company expects oil demand to drop by 3 million to 4 million barrels per day in the United States in 2022-2023.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 29, 2020
Total transfers operatorship in five Brazilian O&G blocks
French supermajor Total announced Monday it has transferred its equity interests in five Brazilian exploration blocks to state-run Petrobras, Kallanish Energy reports.Rig count up six in US, up seven in Canada: BH
It was a good week for the oil and natural gas industry, as the number of working rigs increased by six in the United States and by seven in Canada, according to Baker Hughes.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 25, 2020
Total to convert crude refinery to produce biofuels
French energy major Total announced on Thursday it will convert its Grandpuits crude oil refinery to produce renewable diesel and bioplastics, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 25, 2020
Shipping industry must not wait for ideal fuel solution: DNV-GL
The shipping industry’s “grand challenge” of decarbonization will have to rely on a mix of fuels, rather than wait for the ideal solution to arrive, according to DNV-GL.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 24, 2020
Neste, Shell Aviation ink SAF supply agreement
Neste and Shell Aviation said Wednesday they have signed a supply agreement for sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), anticipating increasing “desire” from airlines to reduce emissions.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 24, 2020
Shell, Microsoft allied to tackle carbon emissions
Royal Dutch Shell and Microsoft have announced a new alliance targeting the energy transition and need to reduce CO2 emissions, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 22, 2020
MPLX kicks off open season on Wyoming-Utah pipeline
MPLX has launched a binding open season to assess shipper interest in moving more crude oil from Wyoming to Utah, Kallanish Energy reports.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 18, 2020
Digitalization making O&G companies a bigger target for hackers
As digitalization grows in the oil and gas industry, companies have become much more vulnerable to cyberattacks, particularly during the pandemic, GlobalData warned this week.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 17, 2020