When you work in oil and gas, it’s easy to assume that everyone speaks your language – and that even people outside the industry know what you’re talking about when you mention “fracking” or “shale plays” or “unconventional resources.”  But as we found out during a recent trip

June 11: WSJ Downplays Russia-China Gas Deal, Gives US Shale Thumb’s Up An Op Ed piece in the Wall Street Journal by global political expert and author Joseph S. Nye Jr. posits that the long-hyped $400 billion deal signed last month that will send 38 billion cubic meters of natural ga

You might call the public debate on fracking “a moral panic.” When it comes to questions of the environment vs. fossil fuels (especially shale development), New York City, Colorado, California, England, France, Bulgaria, and South Africa are becoming epicenters of public anxiety and p

With the escalation of fracking over the last several years and the resulting increase in oil and natural gas production, the US energy industry has undergone a significant turnaround. Not only is the country producing more of its own energy and importing less from foreign oil giants,

Some observers have suggested that, when it comes to aging infrastructure, the US oil and gas industry suffers from an “out of sight, out of mind” mentality.  Critics point to old buried pipelines, some dating from the 1930s and earlier but still in service.  Not only are those pipeli