Pickens Plan Media Coverage 3.25.10
Natural Gas: An Excellent Transportation Fuel – Louisville Courier-Journal – 3/25/10 T. Boone Pickens Touts Energy Independence – Fleet Owner – 3/25/10 T. Boone Pickens Predicts Quick Action on Natural Gas Incentives – Trucking Info – 3/25/10 T. Boone Pickens At The National Fleet NGV Summit Louisville KY – The Auto Channel – 3/24/10 Improving Continue Reading
Houston Chronicle Editorial Against New Taxes on Oil & Gas
The Houston Chronicle has an editorial about an oil-and-gas man named Jim Bob Moffett. Mr. Moffett pushed about $70 million down a 5.5 mile deep hole about 10 miles out in the Gulf of Mexico and found natural gas reserves in the “two trillion between 2 trillion and 6 trillion cubic feet” range. The editorial Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Allies Testify on Capitol Hill
The president of NGVAmerica, Richard Kolodziej, testified on Capitol Hill this week in support of the NAT GAS Act (H.R. 1835 and S. 1408). NGVAmerica is an association of more than 100 companies interested in the promotion and use of natural gas and biomethane as transportation fuels. Mr. Kolodziej, testifying before the Senate Environment and Continue Reading
T. Boone Pickens, founder of the Pickens Plan to reduce America’s dependence on foreign oil, published an op-ed essay in the Louisville Courier-Journal in conjunction with his key note address to the NGV Fleet Summit which is the nation’s largest meeting of natural gas vehicle (NGV) fleet owners. Pickens wrote about there being 11 million Continue Reading
Nat Gas for Power Production in Nevada
In another example American industry making use of the abundance of natural gas in the United States, the New York Times is reporting that: Developers have abandoned their plans for a coal-fired power plant slated for southeastern Nevada, choosing instead to use the site for plants fueled by natural gas and solar power. According to Continue Reading
Fueling North America's Future
Unconventional natural gas has the potential to cause a paradigm shift in the fueling of North America’s energy future. That is one of the many conclusions of a recent report titled “Fueling North America’s Energy Future,” which was released earlier this month. Here are a just a few of the many eye-opening points presented in Continue Reading
China Buys $3 Billion Stake in South American Oil Fields
China’s state-owned oil and gas company has been on a worldwide shopping spree, buying up oil and gas assets. Earlier this week it was announced that Cnooc will invest $3.1 billion in a joint venture with Bridas Energy Holdings to develop exploration and production in Argentina, Bolivia, and Chile. “The deal highlights China’s growing thirst Continue Reading
February oil import numbers are in and …
Army, The oil import numbers for February have been released and, as usual, the news hasn’t changed much. We’re still importing nearly 60% of the oil we use and we’re still using about 70% of that for gasoline to drive our cars, light trucks, and SUVs, and diesel for heavy-duty trucks like 18-wheelers and refuse/recycling Continue Reading
Boone reports on February oil imports
Click on the following link to listen to a message from Boone: February Oil Imports. Continue Reading
Pickens Plan Media Coverage 3.16.10
Oil Demand Expected to Stablize – Clean Skies – 3/15/10 T. Boone Pickens: US imported 59% of oil, paid $50B in January, February 2010 – Oil & Gas Financial Journal – 3/15/10 Will Oil Hit $200 A Barrel After All? – MSN Money – 3/15/10 U.S. Automakers: Natural Gas? We Don’t Need No Stinking Natural Continue Reading