Energy Week in Review

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  March 9th at 12:25 PM  | 

Dispatch from the Oil Patch for the week ending March 8, 2013.

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Is There a Carbon Tax in Your Future?

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  December 8th at 05:09 PM  | 

Amid the Fiscal Cliff foolishness, a carbon tax may offer conservatives a chance to “green their brand” while giving statists a tool to hobble the economy.

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Exxon’s Offshore Lawsuit: The Rest of the Story

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  August 24th at 10:00 AM  | 

Last week, ExxonMobil filed a lawsuit against the Department of the Interior in the Western District of Louisiana. The lawsuit alleges that DOI, through the Minerals Management Service (MMS), acted improperly in cancelling three leases owned by ExxonMobil and Statoil, its 50% partner. The leases are in a field designated “Julia”, which lies in 7,000 feet of water, some 200 miles off the Louisiana coast. | Read More »

‘Haynesville’, the Film

By: Steve Maley (Diary)  |  November 24th at 08:00 AM  | 

Turesday night, CNBC featured the broadcast premiere of Haynesville, a documentary film by Gregory Kallenberg. The film tells of the impact of the Haynesville Shale natural gas field on the residents of DeSoto Parish, Louisiana. I’d recommend Haynesville to everyone. According to its boosters, the Haynesville Shale contains some 230 trillion cubic feet of gas. To put that in perspective, that quantity is roughly equal | Read More »