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Justin Mikulka

LNG tanker loading in Louisiana

LNG: The India Question

The global LNG industry has an economics problem. The main use for LNG (liquefied natural gas) is to burn it to generate electricity. However, there are lots of ways to make electricity these days and importing LNG to then burn it to power gas turbines is currently one of the

Clean energy growth is powering the West Texas oil industry. Wind turbines tower over an oil pump jack

The Oil Industry’s Big Bluff

In a recent Wall Street Week video report on oil industry methane emissions there was a great insight into what the oil industry plans to do when it comes to environmental liabilities and the world in general. After hearing how there was potential to plug old oil and gas wells

Venture Global's Calcasieu Pass LNG export facility

Adventures in LNG Investing

LNG investors learning hard lessons about the major economic challenges facing US LNG exporters.

Image: Do not harm my children

THE HARMS OF US LNG – FROM CALCASIEU PASS TO PUERTO LIBERTAD

The U.S. is working hard to get the rest of the world hooked on expensive and dirty liquefied natural gas (LNG) and is getting plenty of help from the banking system in other countries like Japan. The example I will focus on today is the proposed Mexico Pacific LNG

LNG export terminal on U.S. Gulf Coast. Credit: Justin Mikulka

End Game: US Gas Reserves Edition

While it is now becoming clear to more people that the U.S. oil boom is about to end, very few people are talking about what that means for U.S. natural gas production. Few also are mentioning that some of the major shale gas plays like the Marcellus and

OGI camera image showing methane blowdown in progress.

BLOWDOWNS: INVISIBLE OIL AND GAS SPILLS IN OUR AIR

There is a massive methane spill happening in the Permian and the rest of the oil and gas fields in America and it has been going on for decades. It continues because, unlike the BP Horizon disaster, no one can see it.

Sun setting in Indiana through a haze of wildfire smoke.

The Cleanup Bill for the Fracking Boom is Already Here

In 1990 officials were warning the government that they needed a plan to make sure the costs to clean up the mess being made by the oil industry were not passed on to the public. If the public wants to avoid picking up the tab for the oil tycoons, it better get a plan of its own in place.