Archive for the ‘Washington Pulse’ Category
Are they serious?
January 14th, 2019 by Latest News
Will Democrats now controlling the US House of Representatives act seriously about climate change or remain stuck in high-minded futility? They promise to make action on climate change a priority for the new session of Congress, during which a presiden…
Watching energy in 2019
January 7th, 2019 by Latest News
What should industry expect to happen this year relating to oil and gas? That is a million-dollar question if ever there was one. It’s also a question that analysts and think tanks alike ponder about this time every year.
US Interior Sec. Ryan K. Zinke resigned on Dec. 15, saying that he could not justify “spending thousands of dollars defending myself and my family against false allegations.”
API state councils are bridges between local issues, national advocacy
January 7th, 2019 by Latest News
Colorado Petroleum Council (CPC) Executive Director Tracee Bentley did not consider it an oil and gas industry victory on Nov. 6, 2018, when voters across the state resoundingly rejected Proposition 112. The initiative would have established production…
Parties to the Dec. 7 agreement limiting oil production had to take seriously messages coming from the US—but not tweets from the White House.
A National Petroleum Council committee report that takes a fresh look at the US Arctic’s offshore oil and gas potential won’t be final until early 2019. But a presentation at NPC’s Dec. 4 meeting about what the committee is finding suggested there coul…
OGJ Newsletter
December 17th, 2018 by Latest News
International news for oil and gas professionals
Did the Democrats regaining majority control of the US House in the recent midterm elections improve the legislative climate for a federal carbon tax? Its prospects certainly look brighter now than when the Republicans were in charge and opposed to any…
Iran’s oil exports likely will remain at 1.1-1.3 million b/d for the rest of this year despite waivers the US government granted to eight countries after imposing US sanctions on Iranian oil sales, said Sara Vakhshouri, president of SVB Energy Internat…
Efforts to control
December 10th, 2018 by Latest News
As US President Donald Trump pressed Saudi Arabia, before last week’s meeting of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, to keep oil production high and prices low, the government of Alberta moved the opposite way. At this writing, OPEC had …