Natural Gas 102

Today we talk about five things in the news for the week of June 7, 2015: Hillary's Launch Touches on Energy Pres. Obama's Trade Policy Goes Up in Smoke Texas Regulators See No Earthquakes Iran Trying to Get Back Into the Gas Game Reports Put U.S. on Top and Urge Open Exports And our interview is with Katherine Stokes, the Executive Director of the West Texas Energy Consortium.

Today we talk about five things in the news for the week of May 18 , 2015: EPA Gives Two Thumbs Up to Fracking Senate Looks Upstream, House Looks Midstream EIA Says Clean Power Plan Real Bad for Coal, Mixed on Gas Republican Presidential Candidates Downplay Energy Gas Companies Getting Into Climate Action Our interview is with Islin Munisteri, a reservoir engineer.

Today we talk about five things in the news for the week of May 11, 2015: Senate Energy Looks at Infrastructure Legislation Cheap Gas Becomes Cheap Electricity in Pennsylvania House Critical of Greenhouse Gas Guidelines Natural Gas Catching Coal in Electricity All Hurdles Cleared for First LNG Export Project Our interview is with Deanna Senior, who stars in the Smithsonian Channel's new show "Boomtowners," which follows the oil and gas boom in Williston, North Dakota.

Today we talk about five things in the news between April 26 and May 10, 2015: Colorado Legislature Wraps With Little Fracking Damage Senate Looks at Fracking, and Infrastructure, Fracking, and Climate Crude Exports Hit the Senate Floor Texas Bans Fracking Bans House Moves EPA Rebuttal and Energy Budget Our interview is with Washington State University Professor Brian Lamb, the author of a recent study on methane emissions from local natural gas distribution systems.

Today we talk about five things in the news last week: Titans of Industry Discuss the Meaning of Cheap Oil  First Steps for Republican Response to Clean Power Plan House Science Committee Debates Fracking Joe Biden Reveals Quadrennial Energy Review  Oklahoma Geological Survey Sees Man-Made Earthquakes  Our interview is with Taylor Chase, a frac-sand reporter at the Wisconsin Center for Investigative Journalism.

Today we talk about five things in the news last week: EIA Annual Energy Outlook Sees Net Natural Gas Exports by 2017 House Fires Back Against Clean Power Plan The President, the Pope, and Hollywood Go After Climate Change University of Colorado Stays In Fossil Fuel Business The Marcellus Is a Great Place for Women (and Men) in the Industry Our interview is with Allen Wilson, the CEO of Jericho Oil, a company that is focusing on field redevelopment with shorter, vertical, non-fracked wells. The show notes are available here: http://naturalgas102.com/jericho-oil-says-fracking-not-necessary-april-19-2015/ *Note this episode has a couple bad words in a clip we used.

Today we talk about five things that happened between March 29 and April 12: Jeb Bush Hits Energy Policy in Colorado Bloomberg Reloads in Attack on Coal Plants New Statistics Show Lots of Gas in U.S. Royal Dutch Shell Moves to Buy BG Group EDF Wins Mistrust and Admiration from Enviros Our interview is with John Robitaille, from the Petroleum Association of Wyoming.

Today we talk about five things that happened the week of March 23, 2015: California Gov. Says Coal Bad, Gas Good Senate Vote-a-Rama Says EPA Shouldn't Punish States Over Climate Gallup Poll Finds Fracking is For Old People Gas Exports to Mexico Set to Expand PA Severance Tax Bogged Down in Legislature Our interview with week is with Katie Mehnert, the founder of Pink Petro, a new social network aimed at women in oil and gas.

Today we talk about five things that happened in the big week of March 16, 2015: Federal Fracking Rules Finally Emerge Anti-Drilling "Frack Pack" Introduced in Congress Pres. Obama's Professor Slams the Clean Power Plan Sen. McConnell's "No" Train Gathering Speed Gov. Wolf Sets a Minimum Gas Price Our interview this week is with Robin Bossert, the director of the new documentary Breaking Free.

Today we discuss five things that happened last week: Senate GOP Uses States Against EPA Gov. Wolf Working on Pipelines While Under Fire for Taxes AGA Not Into New Furnace Rules Texas Legislator Pushing More Natural Gas Trucks Natural Gas Fuel Cells In Vehicles Our interview is with Christian Wallace, a contributor at Texas Monthly who recently wrote a great piece called "Learning to Roughneck."

Today we talk about five things that happened the week of March 2, 2015: Gov. Wolf Proposes Natural Gas Tax in Budget Address Mitch McConnell Joins the "Just Say No" Club Dodge Expands its CNG Offerings Distributed Generation with Fuel Cells Forced Pooling Moves in West Virginia Our interview this week is with Ken Medlock, the Director for the Center for Energy Studies at the Baker Institute at Rice University.  We discuss his new paper on the market impacts of proposed changes in natural gas policy. Show notes are available at: http://naturalgas102.com/fracking-bans-only-hurt-at-home/  

Today we discuss five things that happened the week of February 23, 2015.  Oil And Gas Task Force Comes Up With Something Report Says Local Bans Don't Matter Much in the Big Picture Golden Scenarios from The Economist New Report on Gas Creating Chemical Jobs Congress is Doing Something For our interview with week we talk about taxes in Pennsylvania with Tom Shepstone, a planning and research consultant who runs the blog Natural Gas Now.

Five things for the week of February 16, 2015: BP Energy Outlook Sees Bright Future or Gas Pres. Obama's Council of Economic Advisors Praises Gas New Report Shows Opportunities for LNG Trucking Utilities Ask FERC to Step in on Clean Power Plan Gov. Wolf Makes a Threat (Maybe), But New York Towns Want In Our interview is with Steve Myers, the coauthor of Tapping the Shale Gas Boom: How to Penetrate the Shale Gas Market, a book about marketing and business development in the region.  

Five things for the week of February 9, 2015: Gov. Wolf Officially Proposes His Severance Tax LNG Tax-Parity Bill Introduced in Congress Senate Holds Hearing on Clean Power Plan State of the Industry in Flux Colorado Editorial Boards Not Looking to Stop Fracking Our interview with week is with Mark Stansberry of the GTD Group

Five things for the week of February 2, 2015: Pres. Obama Releases His Proposed 2016 Budget Severance Taxes Make Noise in Two States The Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force Whittles Down its Recommendation List Jobs Report Shows a Dip for Oil and Gas DOE Report on Natural Gas Infrastructure Our interview this week is with Curt Dacar, the CEO of RockPile Energy, a completion services company in Colorado.

Five things for the week of January 25, 2015: The American Petroleum Institute Buys Superbowl Time The Senate Finishes Energy Debate on Keystone XL Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) Export Legislation Sees Both House and Senate Action Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) Chairwoman Cheryl LaFleur Touches on Natural Gas The Colorado Oil and Gas Task Force Nears its Completion Our interview this week is with Sarah Jane Kyle, a reporter for the Coloradoan, who has been covering the Oil and Gas Task Force.

Today we look back at five big issues from the last week in natural gas: House Passes Pipeline Permitting Bill Obama Drops Natural Gas From the State of the Union Pennsylvania's New Democratic Governor Sounds Gas Friendly Senate Voting on Energy Dropping Prices and Natural Gas Engines Our interview today is with Ben Deal of LNG Energy, a consulting company that is helping convert high-horsepower engines from diesel to liquefied natural gas.   

Zach Olson from Natural Gas 102 lays out five big issues from the last week in natural gas: The Senate is Talking Energy The Supreme Court Reviews State Authority Over Natural Gas Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper (D) Talks Energy in State of State Speech Congress is Looking at LNG Exports The White House Will Push Methane Regulations Our weekly interview features George Chedsey from GTUIT, a service company providing mobile flare gas treatment in Billings, Montana and the surrounding region. 

Zach Olson looks ahead at nine natural gas policy issues for 2015, recaps the week in the news, and interviews Christopher Tessum, a reseracher at the University of Minnesota who recently published a widely-cited study on the environmental impact of various types of light-duty vehicles.  

A majority of the U.S. Senate votes to approve the Keystone XL pipeline, but the bill falls just one vote short of the necessary 60 votes.  And we talk with Jud Hill, an executive with a fracking fluid management company called Citadel Energy that operates out in the Bakken.