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- August 26, 2022
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, August 26, 1922!
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, August 26, 1922! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 25, 2022
Triple Whammy: Interior Analysis Finds Cutting Offshore Leasing Would Reduce Supply, Hike Prices, and Increase Dependence on Foreign Oil
An E&E News analysis of the U.S. Department of Interior‘s proposed 5-year National Outer Continental Shelf Oil and Gas Leasing Program finds that if the Biden administration followed through on its threats to reduce or eliminate offshore leasing, it would cause negative effects for consumers and American energy security.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 25, 2022
Even “Blockbuster” Congressional Report Doesn’t Show Evidence of Gas Price Gouging
Claims that oil and natural gas producers are price gouging have been met with swift rebuttal from experts across the country, but that hasn’t stopped members of Congress from pushing this narrative.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 24, 2022
U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve Hits Lowest Level Since 1985
The U.S. Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) hit historic lows this week as President Joe Biden continues to order a record release of barrels from the emergency stockpile.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 24, 2022
“We’re All In On the DJ”: Industry Leaders Express Confidence in the Future of Colorado Energy
The past several years have been challenging for Colorado oil and natural gas companies who are working to comply with stiff new regulations and surging demand following pandemic shutdowns, but the fundamentals of the Denver-Julesburg Basin remain strong.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 22, 2022
Sneak Peak: COGA’s Energy Summit to Highlight How Oil and Natural Gas Industry Is a “Leading Force in Creating a Better, Brighter Future”
This week, the Colorado Oil & Gas Association is holding its 34th Annual Energy Summit, focusing on how evolving economic conditions and ongoing regulatory overhauls impact the future of the oil and natural gas industry in the state, a role that’s “never been more critical” in the middle of so much uncertainty.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 19, 2022
Inflation Reduction Act A Bold Raid on American Taxpayers
Inflation Reduction Act A Bold Raid on American Taxpayers American Energy Alliance …. …. [Editor’s Note: The Inflation Reduction Act delivered by Biden, Pelosi, Schumer and Manchin is pure corporatist highway robber; green grifting on an absolutely grand scale.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 19, 2022
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, August 19, 1922!
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, August 19, 1922! Tom Shepstone Shepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 5, 2022
Foundations Playing Politics Will Destroy Us If We Don’t Act
Foundations Playing Politics Will Destroy Us If We Don’t Act Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Foundations, operating with tax-exemption they flagrantly abuse, are destroying our civil society by playing elitist politics with energy, food and much more.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 4, 2022
It’s Not Price Gouging, Says Literally Everyone
Misguided claims of gasoline price gouging continue to bounce around Capitol Hill with the latest salvo coming from Energy & Commerce Committee Chairman Frank Pallone (D-N.J.)- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- August 3, 2022
Germany Facing Future of No Beer and Cold Showers?
Germany Facing Future of No Beer and Cold Shoulders? Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Germany, led by a stubborn former East German who exemplified authoritarianism, went on an Energiewende bender, but is paying the price we told them to expect.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 28, 2022
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly: Inflation Reduction Act
The Inflation Reduction Act that was dropped much to the surprise of just about everybody on Wednesday night is a mixed bag when it comes to provisions that could impact U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 8, 2022
‘Shockingly Naive Price Theory’: Media Blasts Biden White House for Dubious Gas Price Claims
The Biden White House has been under fire for months for making dubious claims about oil markets and why gasoline prices are so high.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 8, 2022
Treason: Joe Biden Sells Our Reserve Oil to Enemy China!
Treason: Joe Biden Sells Our Reserve Oil to Enemy China! Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Joe Biden has crossed a line.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- July 1, 2022
First Biden Administration Onshore Lease Sales Bring In Nearly $22 Million
If there was any doubt that the U.S. oil and natural gas industry is interested in investing in increasing production on federal lands, it was laid to rest this week: Seventy percent of parcels offered received bids resulting in nearly $22 million during the first onshore sales to take place since early January 2021.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 29, 2022
New Dallas Fed Survey Shows Production Increases, But Supply Chain and Political Challenges Persist
Oil and natural gas companies are expanding production activity at a robust pace despite supply chain disruptions and rising costs, according to the most recent Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas survey of energy executives.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 29, 2022
Wyoming’s Lease Sale Brings In Massive Nearly $13 Million Haul … And It’s Only Day One
The first oil and natural gas federal onshore lease sale in 18 months brought in an incredible nearly $13 million in a single day showing that there is massive interest for investing in increased production.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 29, 2022
Where’s the Beef? Democratic Senators Want an Offshore Oil and Natural Gas Plan Without Any Lease Sales
In a letter to Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, a group of Democratic U.S. senators don’t appear to understand the purpose of the five-year outer continental shelf oil and natural gas leasing program that’s required by law.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 20, 2022
Presidential Climate Envoy: “We Absolutely Don’t” Need More Drilling
The past week has been filled with President Joe Biden blundering over gasoline prices and refinery capacity, the Interior Department once again delaying federal lease sales, and a leading Democratic senator calling for tax increases on energy companies.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 10, 2022
As Gasoline Prices Reach Record Highs, Biden Administration Continues to Send Mixed Messages On U.S. Energy Policy
If you’re scratching your chin over U.S. energy policy these days, you aren’t alone. The Biden administration has been sending mixed signals for months over how it will shape the future of domestic energy production and consumption.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- June 10, 2022
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, June 10, 1922!
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, June 10, 1922! Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 27, 2022
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, May 27, 1922!
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, May 27, 1922! Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 26, 2022
In New Mexico, An Abundance of Oil Brings an Abundance of Benefits
Oil and natural gas is contributing in a big way to help New Mexicans improve education and other public services for its residents.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 24, 2022
White House Knows Increasing Oil Production is Popular Among Public – But Its Heart Isn’t Into It
In an odd turn of events this week, President Biden appeared to do a complete 180 from the previously stated White House position that the administration is using every tool in its toolbox to encourage increased U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 19, 2022
Senate Budget Request Hearing Raises Questions About Biden Administration Internal Communications
As gasoline prices reach record highs, leadership questions arise in the Biden administration: Is there a major lack of internal communication and strategy at the agency overseeing oil and gas leasing? The- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 19, 2022
Interior Department Continues to Fumble Drilling Plan as Motorists Suffer Rising Prices at the Pump
At today’s Senate Energy and Natural Resources hearing on the Department of Interior’s budget request, Senator Manchin (D – W.Va.), the top Democrat on the Committee, called out the Department of Interior for refusing to conduct new oil and natural gas lease sales in the middle of an energy price crisis.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 19, 2022
Senate’s Top Energy Democrat: The Leasing Pause Is In Fact A Ban
Interior Sec. Deb Haaland is scheduled to testify before the Senate Energy and Natural Resources committee today on her agency’s proposed fiscal year 2023 budget.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 18, 2022
Top U.N. Economist: Moving Away From Natural Gas Too Soon Risks Mass Starvation
Natural gas doesn’t just power homes and buildings – it also is a crucial component in securing the global food supply.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 18, 2022
Europe Looks to Oil and Natural Gas Industry to Counter a Rising Energy Crisis On the Continent
Oil and natural gas is featuring more and more prominently in the European energy debate at the moment given the immediacy of the energy crisis facing the continent.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 16, 2022
Republican Senators Plot Their Own Destruction and Ours
Republican Senators Plot Their Own Destruction and Ours AmericanEnergy Alliance …. …. [Editor’s Note: The Joe Biden puppeteers and Chinese controllers are clearly aiming to undo American energy independence and, once again, make us dependent on foreign energy.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 15, 2022
Economists, Policymakers & Industry Execs Reject Claims of Gas Price Gouging at Minneapolis Fed Event
There was broad, bipartisan consensus that energy price inflation is an issue of supply and demand mismatch, not price gouging at an event hosted by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis last week.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- May 5, 2022
Fuel Switching = Energy Reliability, A Lesson Being Ignored
Fuel Switching = Energy Reliability, A Lesson Being Ignored Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Fuel switching capacity is at the heart of energy reliability and natural gas provides that flexibility for electric producers, so why is this factor ignored by the climate cult?- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 30, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – April 30, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – April 30, 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 18, 2022
Interior Silent No More: Does Bare Minimum to Comply With Court Order Requiring Oil & Natural Gas Lease Sales
The Biden administration finally announced that it will restart federal lease sales on Friday, with final notices set to be published today.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 16, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – April 16, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – April 16, 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.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 14, 2022
Big, Collective Yawn From National, State Media As New York AG Announces “Price Gouging” Investigation
The House Energy & Commerce Committee recently held a hearing with major energy companies to push the debunked idea that oil companies are engaging in price gouging schemes amid record high gasoline prices.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- April 5, 2022
Setting the Record Straight: Higher Taxes Will Not Increase Production
This weekend, Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.), who is the chairman of the House Oversight and Reform Subcommittee on Environment, went on Fox News claiming that a 1980’s windfall profit tax on oil companies “led to increased production and decreased prices,” as justification for a similar bill he and other fringe Democrats have proposed.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 28, 2022
American Oil & Natural Gas Producers Want to Increase Production – But Hurdles Remain
The Biden administration has recently begun calling on the industry to increase domestic oil and natural gas production and attempting to name and shame independent producers who have not committed to their shareholders to do so.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 24, 2022
Despite Challenges, Dallas Fed Reports Accelerated Oil & Natural Gas Growth in Southwest
The Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas recently acknowledged the global supply of oil is experiencing “one of the largest supply shortfalls since the 1970s” and that “efforts to restrain oil and gas production in countries such as the U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 12, 2022
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, March 12, 1922!
Natural Gas Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 5, 2022
Natural Gas – 100 Years Ago Today, March 5, 1922!
Natural Gas Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. Natural gas news from a hundred years ago offers great perspective for discussing one of the cleanest sources of energy available then and still today.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- March 4, 2022
Democrats, Republicans and Even The Owner of Tesla Agree, We Need To Increase U.S. Oil, Natural Gas Production
Energy In Depth has previously highlighted a host of policymakers, think tanks and industry leaders calling for the Biden administration to support increased U.S.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- February 25, 2022
Ukraine Action by Biden Doesn’t Use Best Weapon We Have
Ukraine Action by Biden Doesn’t Use Best Weapon We Have Tom ReynoldsCo-Founder of Dryden Safe Energy Coalition … … [Editor’s Note: Ukraine is under attack; a direct result of Biden and the left’s idiotic, history ignoring, policies of green political correctness combined with weakness.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 27, 2022
One Year Later: Biden Administration Still Hasn’t Held Onshore Lease Sales
It has been one year since President Joe Biden issued Executive Order 14008 placing an illegal ban on oil and natural gas leasing on federal lands.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- January 1, 2022
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – January 1, 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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- December 29, 2021
Amid Year of Uncertainty, U.S. Oil and Natural Gas Industry Steps Up in 2021
In another year of mass uncertainty surrounding the energy sector and the broader economy, the U.S. oil and natural gas industry continued to step up big in 2021 with record exports, increased technological innovations, and continued progress on reducing emissions.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 11, 2021
California Joins the “We Love OPEC” Alliance
The state of California – once an energy giant, not beset by supply shortages and high costs – has joined the Beyond Oil and Gas Alliance (BOGA), a group of countries and regional governments that have pledged to end oil and natural gas production.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- November 6, 2021
Natural Gas Now Best Picks – November 6, 2021
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.The Mobile Oilfield Learning Unit (MOLU) is Back Visiting Schools
MOLUBill desRosiersExternal Affairs Coordinator, Coterra EnergyHost, Shale Gas News … … Students from the Lackawanna Trail Elementary Center were treated to a day of fun and learning, thanks to the Mobile Oilfield Learning Unit (MOLU).- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 24, 2021
After Encouraging Policies to Decrease U.S. Production, President Biden Admits to Having No Answers For Rising Gasoline Prices
Last week, President Joe Biden participated in a nationally televised townhall on CNN where rising gasoline prices was a key point of discussion.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 20, 2021
IEEFA Gets Supply Chains All Wrong
A recent Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA) report incorrectly blames plastics producers for an increase in plastic prices, a changing number that is much more complex than the final cost of a single plastic cup.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 14, 2021
The China Energy Green Head Fake vs the China Energy Reality
China Energy Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. China is happy to be seen as a green energy leader to take eyes off the fact China energy reality is one of developing and grabbing all the fossil fuels it can.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 8, 2021
After Killing Keystone XL and Banning Federal Leasing, Biden White House Claims ‘All Tools on the Table’ to Combat Rising Fuel Prices
It’s only been a few short years since the United States demonstrated that it can compete in the global oil market, and in fact, quite literally drilled its way to lower gasoline prices.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 7, 2021
EIA: Oil & Natural Gas Will Be In High Demand For Decades To Come
There is an important and continued role for oil and natural gas parallel to the world implementing policies to increase renewable energy consumption, according to the Energy Information Administration’s 2021 International Energy Outlook.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 6, 2021
Biden Bugs Off as China Hugs Oil and Gas Industry
oil and gas … …[Editor’s Note: Incredibly, Joe Biden, our White House occupant, is seemingly determined to wipe out our oil and gas even as China wraps its arms around its own energy industry.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- October 4, 2021
Coterra Energy Is the New/Old Cabot and Cimarex
Coterra Energy Tom ShepstoneShepstone Management Company, Inc. …. …. The merger of the Marcellus Shale’s Cabot Oil and Gas with Permian/Anadarko outfit Cimarex Energy has produced a new name in the energy lexicon; Coterra Energy!- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 22, 2021
Biden Climate Policies Will Decimate Us and Empower China
Biden climate policies … …[Editor’s Note: The Biden climate policies are clearly intended to weaken our U.S. energy industry, which reached dominance under President Trump, while giving China free rein.]- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 21, 2021
Think About Energy Pennsylvania’s Energy Progress Webinar
Connie MellinNatural Gas NOW“PAShaleAdvocate” The webinar titled Pennsylvania Energy Progress: What We Have Built and What is At Stake gives an understanding how energy development has impacted the state.- Joe Barone, Shale Directories
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- September 16, 2021