Posted on 03/12/2025 6:14:38 AM PDT by george76
The Trump administration is wasting no time reversing President Joe Biden's disastrous energy policies and is already opening up new lanes of production less than two months after being sworn into office.
Last week Interior Secretary Doug Burgum and Energy Secretary Chris Wright traveled to Louisiana to announce new liquified natural gas exports are back in business. Bergum and Wright were hosted by Venture Global, which committed to $18 billion in new energy investments.
"Venture Global announced plans for a brownfield expansion at its Plaquemines LNG facility south of New Orleans, Louisiana. Joining Venture Global for the announcement was Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry and other federal, state and local officials and stakeholders," Venture Global announced. "The planned Plaquemines expansion will consist of 24 trains and would represent an approximately $18 billion additional investment in the State of Louisiana, bringing Venture Global’s total investment in our current and planned US projects to over $75 billion."
"President Trump's plan for U.S. energy dominance includes us selling clean U.S. energy to our allies so they don't have to buy it from our adversaries. Part of the reason Europe was buying from Russia is because the Biden administration put a ban on export facilities," Burgum told Fox News about the project.
During Trump's first term, Venture Global came onboard as a major LNG producer and exporter.
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“Our planned expansion of Plaquemines will make it the largest LNG export facility built in North America, supplying LNG to our allies while making a substantial impact on the U.S. balance of trade,” Venture Global CEO Mike Sabel said about the new plans. “We believe this flexible incremental capacity will position us to respond rapidly to market growth signals. In a capital-intensive commodity industry, capital will always flow to the most competitive projects, and we believe that an expansion of Plaquemines is one of the most economically efficient opportunities available to quickly meet growing LNG demand. We are grateful for the Trump Administration’s commitment to building out our nation’s critical energy infrastructure. We believe this will be the best regulatory environment in decades.”
In February, President Trump established the National Energy Dominance Council to lower prices and advise "on strategies to achieve energy dominance by improving the processes for permitting, production, generation, distribution, regulation, and transportation across all forms of American energy."
Reminder: The Dims who now claim they hate natural gas are the same Dims who, as recently as the Obama administration, were pushing for us to transition to "clean burning" natural gas. They intentionally make it impossible to please them. It's never about the environment. It's always about control and grift.
Would have been the RIGHT WAY to respond to the Ukraine invasion but Biden’s America-hating people were trapped in their own Leftist policies to do that - so they decided instead to dump our military hardware into yet another losing cause, since that also fits their ideology of hating the military.
Bring back Keystone just to stick it in their eye. Next, start building nuke power plants. Then, drill.
No solar, no wind.
Question: Would Sarah Palin be better at DOE? I think not.
Energy independence was the core element of low inflation during the first Trump admin, and will be the core of it now. Energy prices ripple through every part of the economy.
I wonder how they are going to get the natural gas to Plaquemines? All of the fields around there are depleted.
What brought up Sarah Palin? Albeit she would not be bad as many that preceded her.
Sounds like a plan. Just watch for nutria in the way. 😂👍
I had thought that there was another pipeline project, which the Biden Cabal canceled early, that would bring natural gas to Louisiana.
Imagine that. Fields can deplete. I guess that means they’re not refilling from magical processes in the Earth.
And no, don’t stand up and wave hands about abiotic hydrocarbons. It doesn’t matter where they come from. It only matters where they can be found. The limit on where they can be found is where they have already been found and burned.
The Plaquemines LNG Terminal receives natural gas from the Gator Express Pipeline, which consists of two new pipelines designed to deliver nearly 4 billion cubic feet of natural gas per day the Haynesville Shale would be the main supplier they are far from being drilled out, producers had just about quit drilling because of a glut in gas with no place to go.
I’d love to know the exact timeline for natural production of methane / natural gas. To hear the left say it, the earth produces too much methane and it’s causing global warming. But IMHO, if the earth is producing tons of methane, we ought to be able to utilize it with less worry of using it up.
Volcanoes and glaciers combine as powerful methane producers
There is a guy on this blog . . . genpoly something. He understands the chemistry and geology of hydrocarbons.
The classic rebuttal to the concept of methane scarcity is Titan. It’s a moon of Saturn and no biologic processes are in play there.
The counter rebuttal is it does not matter how it is created. It only matters where it is, and does an empty well ever refill.
Answer — in 100+ yrs the only time there has been refilling of empty (wasn’t always empty, empty because the rock was pumped out) wells was occasions when an adjacent well’s rock drained into that well’s rock. It wasn’t new methane for the field. It was cannibalized from elsewhere in the field.
Empty is empty. Maybe it does refill — but this is not rocket science. Obviously over a 100 year period, various someone’s have returned to capped and abandoned wells to look for refill. Not done anymore because it’s not a free effort and all previous efforts over the 100+ yrs said “yup, still empty. Only another million years or so and we should check that well again.”
Just the reality that Halliburton and Schlumberger and other major oil field companies have a Cap&Abandon division tells you that wells can go empty.
How about cutting the regs that killed the coal industry?
“Bring back Keystone just to stick it in their eye.”
The Canadiens want no part of it.
Anyone who read her book respected her. My only mild criticism was her voice. Every time she opened her mouth, I hit the Mute button. Aside from that, she was smart, and tough.
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When oil gets below $40/bbl the USA should start refilling the Strategic Petroleum Reserve (SPR) back up to 100%.
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