(Wed, 09 Aug 2017) EIAâs latest <em>Short-Term Energy Outlook</em> projects that the United States will export more natural gas than it imports in 2017. The United States has been a net exporter for three of the past four months and is expected to continue to export more natural gas than it imports for the rest of 2017 and throughout 2018.
Two North Texas joint ventures between resin packaging companies and railroads that aim to move USGC polyethylene for export have been delayed to 2018.
(Tue, 08 Aug 2017) The United States exported more natural gas than it imported in February, April, and May of 2017 according to the latest EIAâs Natural Gas Monthly. The United States has been a net natural gas importer (on an average annual basis) for nearly 60 years.
Iraq is compliant with neither the spirit nor the letter of the OPEC-led agreement to cut oil production from January 1 this year. The question is whether it should be.
(Mon, 07 Aug 2017) On August 21, a solar eclipse will obscure the sunlight needed to generate electricity at approximately 1,900 utility-scale solar photovoltaic (PV) power plants in the United States.
(Fri, 04 Aug 2017) Nearly 59 million barrels per day (b/d) of global petroleum and other liquids production moved on maritime routes in 2015, or almost 61% of the world total. Many of these products transited the Suez Canal and SUMED Pipeline, the Bab el-Mandeb Strait, and the Strait of Hormuz chokepoints around the Arabian Peninsula.
(Thu, 03 Aug 2017) As of July 2017, thirty states and the District of Columbia have adopted energy efficiency policiesâeither mandated requirements, voluntary goals, or pilot programsâdesigned to lower the growth of electricity consumption by using electricity more efficiently.
(Wed, 02 Aug 2017) EIAâs State Energy Data System (SEDS) recently released 2015 data estimates for all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia. The estimates include data on both total energy consumption and energy consumption per capita, which is calculated by dividing total consumption by population.
(Tue, 01 Aug 2017) The U.S. Energy Information Administration has released its <i>2017 World Oil Transit Chokepoints</i> report. Chokepoints are narrow channels along widely used global sea routes for oil transport, with some so narrow that restrictions are placed on the size of the vessel that can navigate through them.
The world’s largest gas field is at the nexus of a political stalemate between Qatar and three of its immediate Arab neighbors in the Persian Gulf region—Saudi Arabia, Bahrain and the UAE, along with Saudi ally Egypt.
