Boone Pickens: "We got too much gas"
T. Boone Pickens provided his predictions on natural gas prices on CNBC yesterday. Continue Reading
We're making progress in Pennsylvania!
As we continue our fight for energy security, natural gas as a motor fuel continues to advance our cause. The United States now has over 1,600 natural gas refueling stations. This represents an increase of almost 100 percent since 2009. Liquefied natural gas (LNG) is playing a key role in repowering America’s eighteen wheelers, a Continue Reading
U.S. Oil and Gas Companies Owed a Big Thanks
Speaking in Washington with the Financial Times earlier this week, T. Boone Pickens said that consumers of oil and gas products around the world owe U.S. exploration and production companies a debt of gratitude for lifting American production to 9.4 million barrels per day. “If you did not have the U.S. oil today … do you know where you’d Continue Reading
T. Boone Pickens: Calgary, I'm so sorry about the Keystone pipeline
The following op-ed by T. Boone Pickens was published in the Calgary Herald on March 13, 2015. Read the article at calgaryherald.com. To my friends in Calgary and across Canada: I apologize on behalf of my fellow Americans for the United States government’s actions. Why? Because after years of poring over the engineering, design, geology Continue Reading
Legislation Filed in Texas to Move Government Vehicles to Natural Gas
Statement from T. Boone Pickens on Legislation Filed in Texas to Move Government Vehicles to Natural Gas March 12, 2015 The bill that State Senator Carlos Uresti and Lt. Governor Dan Patrick announced today will provide a roadmap – literally – for other states to follow to transition their fleet vehicles from imported gasoline and Continue Reading
OPEC Targeting U.S. Shale Producers
The Wall Street Journal reports that OPEC’s top official said that continuing to produce 30 million barrels a day, despite drastically lower oil prices, is hurting U.S. producers who specialize in tight oil locked in shale formations. “Projects are being canceled. Investments are being revised. Costs are being squeezed,” said Abdalla Salem el-Badri, the secretary general of the Organization Continue Reading
Don’t Kill Keystone XL. Regulate It.
The following op-ed by Jonathan Waldman ran in The New York Times on Friday, March 6, 2015. Mr. Waldman is the author of the forthcoming book “Rust.” TWO years ago, I spent a month watching engineers inspect the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, one of the world’s biggest, most remote and most complicated pipelines. The endeavor entailed sending Continue Reading
Strengthening Fuel Competition in Tennessee
We’re making progress! There are now over 1,600 natural gas refueling stations in the U.S. – double the amount in 2009. In Tennessee, State Senator John Stevens and State Representative Curtis Halford have introduced legislation that will strengthen fuel competition by allowing natural gas to be sold in what is known as Diesel or Gasoline Continue Reading
T. Boone Pickens statement on Keystone Pipeline veto
For all his talk about the future, President Obama’s decision to veto the Keystone pipeline shows a dangerously short-sighted view on energy. Killing Keystone won’t reduce carbon emissions one bit. The oil will be used either way. It’ll just get shipped across Canada by train, then shipped to China instead of the United States. President Continue Reading