The need to dramatically reduce carbon dioxide emissions while enhancing energy security and providing economical energy services is one of the greatest challenges facing the world today. Achieving these goals will require a transformation of the global energy economy and must be based on a robust combination of resources and technologies. Natural gas has recently [...]
Oil is the energy resource that captures public attention – nearly all of us need its products to drive around every day, and feel the pain of prices of $130 a barrel, or thereabouts, when we fill our cars at the pumps. But its poor cousin natural gas could be the one now offering more [...]
In recent years, natural gas producers in the United States have struggled, mostly in vain, to be taken more seriously in the energy world. Big oil companies like Exxon had concluded that natural gas reserves in the United States were not sufficiently abundant to warrant big investments in exploration and drilling. When small independent gas [...]
T. Boone Pickens, the Texas investor and oil billionaire who has become a staunch advocate for green energy, is at it again with a wild new plan to make the U.S. more energy independent. The iconoclastic Pickens is now advocating a wholesale shift in the U.S. big-rig trucking fleet from imported diesel fuel to domestically [...]
