Powering the Planet

Sign in Subscribe

LNG

LNG Update: A Rising Tide Sinks All Boats

LNG Update: A Rising Tide Sinks All Boats

The world is waking up to the obvious when it comes to the global LNG glut and the havoc that it will wreak on the economics of U.S. LNG exports and the domestic gas market. What has been obvious for a long time can no longer be ignored. However,

Sabine Pass LNG Export Terminal

US LNG - Debts No Honest Man Could Pay

Before the epic U.S. housing and commercial real estate crash of 2008, bankers were applying innovative approaches to lending. One of their new products was the NINJA loan, which stood for “No Income, No Job, No Assets.” You might be thinking, “How could anyone be so dumb to loan

Sun sets over Exxon's Golden Pass LNG

As Solar Dominates, the Sun Sets on the LNG Boom

Gastech is a big deal in the global methane/natural gas industry. Gastech also openly embraces the false claims that the gas industry is somehow going to “...accelerate the global shift toward cleaner, more sustainable energy.” The idea that methane in the form of LNG is somehow cleaner or more

Leaving LNG behind.

LNG - The Oil Industry’s Last Scam

Do you remember the “algae as oil” years? For a whole ten years we were subjected to this scam from the biggest oil companies. We learned about it in 2009 and at the time Exxon predicted “it could produce fuels in five to 10 years.” And then after four years

The End of the U.S. LNG Bubble

The End of the U.S. LNG Bubble

For the U.S. LNG industry to make money it will require many factors all to align in the "Goldilocks Window" and that outcome is highly unlikely.

LNG tanker being loaded for export

Methane Insanity

We’ve been warned of inconvenient truths. A movie was made about society’s unspoken agreement to ignore science and reality and the current U.S. regime is making that movie’s head-in-the-sand approach of science denial official policy. Meanwhile, the very real impacts of our changing climate are becoming

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