Let’s Make a Deal on National Energy Policy
When you read the Obama Blue Print for a Secure Energy Future and compare it to Romney’s Energy Plan for market-driven competitive energy growth to help advance the cause of energy independence, these...
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Lower Costs, Better Performance and More Profitability in Well Field Operations
HotLeap TRACKER pays for itself in savings at one well by alerting field crews to match methanol injection to well production rates across the well field. North America’s energy production growth is...
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Between an Argentine Shale Rock and Hard place
You must admit there is a certain irony in reports out of Argentina by none other than the newly named CEO of YPF, (NYSE: YPF) Miguel Galuccio, that his company has found a significant shale deposit...
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Will Regulation of ‘All of the Above’ Energy Cost 20X More on Public Lands?
Federal Lands More than 96% of the domestic energy production growth from shales has taken place on private lands safely out of the reach of the Federal government bureaucrats and regulators. That...
View ArticleThe Dirty Little Secret of Economic Impacts of Federal Rules
“We, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) and the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) (collectively referred to as the ‘‘Services’’ or ‘‘we’’), propose to revise our regulations pertaining to...
View ArticleCoal Fights Back, and Wins in Europe
A funny thing is happening on the way to the clean energy future. While the US government wages a regulatory war on coal fired generation, in Europe, the land of the oh so politically correct the...
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Getting to Solar Energy Sustainability
The search for market equilibrium is an elusive quest in the solar energy industry. But the addiction to subsidies, carve-outs and other political favors has done little to improve the success...
View ArticleRIP A123
The battery technology firm A123 burned cash faster than it was coming in the door in a market for PHEV that is not as hot as many would like. But unlike other green energy companies to flame out the...
View ArticleCommon Sense Kiss of Death for Climate Change Lawsuits
The decision by the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in Native Village of Kivalina v. ExxonMobil Corp., No. 09-17490, 2012 U.S. App. LEXIS 19870 (9th Cir. Sept. 21, 2012) if left...
View ArticleDoha was a Dud!
The Doha climate change conference concluded this week with what has become a familiar ring. Nothing much of import happened and increasingly fewer people noticed. Oh, the issues at the surface are...
View ArticleCan the Big Shift in Energy bring a Return of Industrial Demand?
Outsourcing became a dirty word in the 2012 elections, in part, because over the last decade the US lost more than 5 million jobs to offshore emerging markets. While politicians will continue to score...
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The Big Shift in Energy is Underway
The United States is engaged in a fierce debate over energy strategy, policy and production. Today there is wave after wave of new Federal regulation designed to favor clean energy strategies at the...
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Lessons from the Front Lines of Disruptive Innovation
Tech and Creative Labs (TCLABZ) was born out of the disruptive innovation realization that insight about this energy market volatility could be extracted from the online dynamic interaction of people...
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Tracking Oil & Gas Field Performance with Visual Data Analytics
North America’s oil & gas production growth is the envy of the world. From the Alberta oil sands to shale plays across the US, we are getting down to business fueling our economy. In the first...
View ArticleThe Big Shift in Energy is a Complete Reversal of Fortunes
As we all read the 2012 economic reports last year we collectively thought of the right technical terms—the results sucked! GDP growth had slowed to 1.5%, unemployment rates remained stubbornly high...
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TClabz Performance+ Wellsite Analytics
Improving Oil & Gas Field Performance Starts at the Well TCLabs Energy The pace of change in the energy industry is growing significantly. The industry is being turned on its head by the shale...
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Power Shift @ Work
SOURCE: US EIA There is a profound process of change underway in the regulated utility business. It is brought about by a combination of good forces of healthy competition, low natural gas prices,...
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Light Sweet Crude Displacement
I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and despite its well-deserved ‘tree hugger’ image the inland part of the Bay is home to a concentration of refineries essential to California’s economic vitality....
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Should the US Lift the Ban on Crude Oil Exports?
There is a growing debate over lifting the US ban on crude oil exports. Recently US Energy Secretary Ernest Moniz said he thought it time to review the prudence of the exports ban during the 2014...
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Shale Gas Supply Growth Shakes Up Everything
SOURCE: US EIA Data and Reuters graphic The shale revolution is a full reversal of energy fortunes in the United States. It might have similar potential in other parts of the world if as projected...
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