API Goes Whole Hog on Hydrogen, Study Cheerleads for H2 from NatGas
The American Petroleum Institute (API) yesterday released new analyses (see the 160-page report below) on the benefits of low-carbon hydrogen produced from natural gas. The study, commissioned by API and conducted by ICF, found that hydrogen produced from natural gas with carbon capture and produced from electricity and other energy sources (so-called “blue” hydrogen) could eliminate an additional 180 million metric tons of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions on average per year through 2050 and save over $450 billion cumulatively through 2050 when hydrogen incentives are uniformly provided based on a per ton of GHG emissions reduced. API wants the world to know, hydrogen made from natural gas (as 95% of all hydrogen is), is the way to go.
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The attacks against American energy by the Biden administration come so fast and so frequently, we can’t keep up with them. Here’s one that slipped by us. On July 7, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), under the “leadership” of the very dull Jennifer Granholm, proposed rulemaking for Energy Conservation Standards for Consumer Furnaces, which would amend the energy conservation standards for non-weatherized gas furnaces and mobile home gas furnaces, eliminating natgas furnaces used in millions of American homes. The American Gas Association (AGA) filed a blistering response on Oct. 6, saying the new rule would be harmful to consumers, counterproductive to energy efficiency goals, and unlawful.
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EQT CEO Toby Rice has been and is on a mission to spread the gospel of LNG (see 
In just the past week, woke/leftist investment firm BlackRock (the largest investment firm in the world) has lost over $1 billion of investment money from two states: Louisiana (see 
The laughably misnamed Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) is now law. Hopefully, a Republican takeover in Congress in November will mute some of the aspects of this terrible new law, but we’re not holding our breath. IRA is the law and we must now deal with it as such. While there is a mini-gold-rush mentality about the law and its $8 billion allocated for hydrogen projects, the overall aim of the IRA is to transition the entire economy of the United States away from using fossil energy to using so-called renewable energy by showering renewables with mountains of money. We predict here and now that the effort to convert America to renewables using the IRA will utterly and completely fail–for one main reason…
In a March 3rd Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing, Senator Bill Cassidy (R-LA) asked Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairman Richard “Dick” Glick this question: “Has anyone higher up in the [Biden] administration ever spoken to you in regards to somehow slow-walking or otherwise impeding or otherwise accentuating policy that would have the effect of impeding the development of natural gas pipelines?” Chairman Glick responded with an unambiguous “no.” Yet FERC refused to release records of communications and meetings with the White House to back up Glick’s statement. The Institute for Energy Research (IER) promptly filed a lawsuit (and nine others since) to probe the extent of the involvement of the Biden White House in reshaping FERC’s policies. FERC continues to stonewall the IER’s requests. What is FERC, and The White House, hiding?
If fossil energy companies believe they can make their chosen business and industry more palatable to radical environmentalists, like Food & Water Watch (FWW), by jumping into hydrogen whole-hog, they need to think again. As we’ve been warning for months, the kook/left/fringe of the environmental movement has declared hydrogen as big of an enemy as natural gas (see 
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As we told you last week, the Pennsylvania Dept. of Environmental Protection (DEP) was long ago supposed to have reintroduced a new set of regulations for the conventional oil and gas industry in the state to control methane emissions (see 
On Saturday, Oct. 1, Berkshire Hathaway Energy shut down the Cove Point, Maryland, LNG export facility to perform regular annual maintenance. Berkshire Hathaway (Warren Buffett), while a minority owner of Cove Point, is the operator of the facility. Natural gas flowing to the plant for liquefaction and export averaged 0.76 billion cubic feet per day (Bcf/d) in September (three-fourths of a Bcf). Those flows dropped to near zero on Oct. 1. Cove Point is typically offline for three weeks each year for maintenance. Now we hold our collective breath until it comes back online. Three-fourths of a Bcf each and every day is a lot of gas. Where will it go?
The U.S. Energy Information Administration recently published an article observing the number of DUCs (
Help! We’re in a nightmare, and we can’t wake up! It feels like we’re in one of those interminable Halloween movies (there’s a new one coming out this month called Halloween Ends, can you believe it?). Picture this: A president who already tilts far to the left and has dementia manages to sucker a “moderate” Democrat from West Virginia to vote for a falsely named climate bill (calling it Inflation Reduction), getting the bill passed. And that bill contains $40 BILLION for the federal EPA to use for (among other things) concocting new regulations to impose on the oil and gas industry, circumventing states’ rights as enumerated under the U.S. Constitution. The EPA is about to unleash those onerous new regulations–this week–just in time for Halloween! God help us all.
When oil and natural gas (i.e. methane) are extracted from the ground, inevitably some methane leaks/escapes into the atmosphere. Such leaks cause leftist wackos to go apoplectic, they’re so convinced methane will cause the earth to toast. We don’t like seeing methane leak either–but for a different reason. Every one of those molecules could be harvested and sold! There’s money in that leaking methane! One of the first tasks in solving the issue of leaking methane is to determine its source. Where is the methane originating from? Researchers at the Los Alamos National Lab (LANL) have discovered a way to determine where methane originates by measuring not only methane, but other hydrocarbons present, including ethane.