Posted on 03/25/2014 4:27:22 PM PDT by Jim Robinson
Russia’s aggressiveness in Ukraine is proving a boon to North American energy producers looking for greater export opportunities.
Whether for natural gas projects in the United States or for oil pipelines in Canada, the West’s confrontation with energy powerhouse Russia has refocused North American political debates – including the controversy over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline – on the need for global energy security.
Russia’s aggressiveness in Ukraine is proving a boon to North American energy producers looking for greater export opportunities.
Whether for natural gas projects in the United States or for oil pipelines in Canada, the West’s confrontation with energy powerhouse Russia has refocused North American political debates – including the controversy over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline – on the need for global energy security.
The United States is poised to re-establish its position as a major energy producer; its crude production is forecast to lead the world by 2017...
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Too bad this imposter of a President is doing everything he can to destroy the domestic energy industry.
Palin Doctrine coming to light.
Not to worry. Obamster will put a stop to this!
The sleeping giant is the GCC.
If Russia attempts extortion, Syria will return to French protectorate and the pipelines will grow out of Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and the UAE under the Med to Greece and Europe.
North America has gas but it will not be as cheap as Arab gas
Growl?
But can they undercut us on reliability?
There it is.
That is the Syria war in a nutshell. Putin won that one too.
Hard to say. Sadly if Russia undercuts us on cost our government will react by subsidizing the cost difference away which will irritate Americans.
I would argue the Arabs are deliberative to an extreme nd have not digested the Obama defection. They have not yet agreed with Turkey on the plan of action.
Drill, baby, Drill!
Russia needs outside help to try to juice its falling oil production, and with sanctions on it will not get it. Of course, that assumes that Zero, Lurch, and Plugs don’t just hand over the technology to Iran, which will then give it or more likely sell it to Russia.
Israel and Cyprus enter into this equation as well, as does Egypt. All are budding natural gas producers, and the Gulf states (as someone pointed out above) started to take advantage of the natural gas they used to burn off. Shipping LNG isn’t as cheap as piping it, uh, usually.
Not too sure we’ll ever see the Gulf states pay to transfer methane to Europe over an Israel-owned pipeline, but if that were to happen, it would be the beginning of the transformation of the Middle East.
What idiots we have in the federal government. Energy independence is the greatest strategic asset a country has; just ask Hitler’s ghost. The Nazis spend a great amount of men and treasure trying to secure oil resources and production energy to fuel their war machine and the Allyies spent even more to prevent it.
Obama and Congress, you sirs, are f***king idiots.
Historians will work for decades trying to understand how you were so stupid.
Mexico has a lot of gas. The eagle ford formation in south texas just keeps going south.
The mexicans have changed their laws so as to enable foreign companies to frack their gas and oil.
It will be a couple years before they have volume to export.
they are right now buying a lot of natural gas from the eagle ford and piping it south. they’ll first want to replace that with their own natural gas before sending gas off to export.
that’s four to five years away.
the fracking tech is not so easy to move around between countries. so there won’t be any volume from any countries but the USA via fracking for at least the next 2-3 years.
Meanwhile, as obama/soetoro plays tiddly-winks:
The Holy Grail for Moscow is a natural gas supply deal with China that is apparently now close after years of negotiations. If it can be signed when Putin visits China in May, he will be able to hold it up to show that global power has shifted eastwards and he does not need the West.
Putin looks to Asia as West threatens to isolate Russia
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/03/21/us-ukraine-crisis-russia-insight-idUSBREA2K07S20140321
ONGC, Russia’s Rosneft may join forces on oil flows
http://in.reuters.com/.../russia-rosneft-oil-india...
Meanwhile, we continue to be totally reliant on the Russians to get our astronauts into space.
Honest historians will.
Remember the victors write the history.
Most of the college historians have been rewriting history over the last 60 years to make the US the bad guy. I would expect that trend to continue barring a change in the national attitude toward university management structure and tenure for college professors.
As far as I can see there is not much movement in either of those areas. I think the Left is winning the war on history.
Conservatives need to figure out how to re-take our universities by getting onto the boards of regents. Those who control the hiring of university presidents also control what professors are hired, who gets tenure and what worldview is propagated out into the culture and lower educational systems. This is one of the methods the “progressives” used to undermine our culture starting 100 years ago. It’s time we did the same thing and reverse the situation.
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