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

June 5: Will Flaring Crackdown Mean Fracking Slowdown for N.D.? North Dakota’s Industrial Commission, a three-member regulatory body chaired by State Governor Jack Dalrymple, penned new rules for the capture of natural gas released in the process of flaring.  Energy companies will now

If it seems like the energy globe has tilted off its axis, that’s because the balance of power in the petroleum world has shifted.  Thanks to the domestic shale revolution, the US is no longer as dependent on Middle Eastern and other super-suppliers.  And this is having a ripple effec

5/29: China On Track to Outspend US in Pursuit of Shale Energy Like the US, China is hotly pursuing energy independence via development of its own internal shale resources, but at what a Bloomberg Report cites as quadruple the cost.  While US wells can have a price tag as low as $2.6

5/22: Russia and China Seal $400-Billion-Dollar Gas Deal The biggest buzz in energy news this week is the long-awaited energy agreement between Russia and China that was signed May 21, 2014.  The deal, linking Russia’s Gazprom with China’s CNPC, was 10 years in the making,