The Department of Energy (DOE) has a bunch of taxpayer money that it is handing out — for conservation efforts. Money well spent, it believes, if the investments result in more energy-efficient buildings and less greenhouse …
Articles By Stuart Hampton
Less oil, less pollution, more miles per gallon
by Stuart Hampton, September 22, 2009, 3:16 pmI am putting more than $50 of gasoline into my mother-in-law’s humongous SUV (definitely not pictured above), and I start thinking, when will these gas guzzlers become a thing of the past?
The answer, it turns out, is 2016.
Lost …
BP finds a B— P— in the Gulf of Mexico
by Stuart Hampton, September 8, 2009, 3:08 pmBP stands for:
a) Big Pool of oil in the Gulf of Mexico?
b) Big Prize in the Gulf of Mexico?
c) Billions of Petrodollars in the Gulf of Mexico?
d) All of the above?
The answer is d).
Two weeks ago …
The Russians are coming — for Cuba’s oil
by Stuart Hampton, August 25, 2009, 9:43 amAs a conscious 11-year old during the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, the idea that someday Russia might be allowed to drill for oil 45 to 90 miles from Florida seemed unthinkable. But in the post Cold …
Shell’s $2.3 billion Q2 profit. A major slump. Whaaat?
by Stuart Hampton, August 11, 2009, 8:48 amIt’s good to be the king.
Only the likes of Royal Dutch Shell can point to a 70% slump in profits year over year, as it has in its recent 2009 Quarter Two …
Oil spill on South Padre calls for a slick response
by Stuart Hampton, July 28, 2009, 12:43 pmLast week, an oil spill showed up as thick gelatinous beach ball-sized blobs of sticky crude oil on Texas’ South Padre Island beaches and Boca Chica Beach in the height of the summer beach season. The …
Blown Away — Pickens’ Wind Farm
by Stuart Hampton, July 14, 2009, 7:58 amI’m blowing down this old dusty road
I’m blowing down this old dusty road
I’m blowing down this old dusty road
I ain’t gonna be treated this-a way.
Is T. Boone Pickens moving on?
According to his critics, the decision by octogenarian oil man-turned-wind power/natural gas-envangelist Pickens to …
Utilities and renewable energy — the quiet revolution
by Stuart Hampton, June 30, 2009, 10:52 amPassions were running high in Congress last week as the Obama Administration’s “cap-and-trade” Energy Bill squeaked through the House of Representatives on a vote of 219 – 212. A visibly irate House Minority Leader, John Boehner, spent nearly an hour castigating the House …
Choking on China’s Coal
by Stuart Hampton, June 17, 2009, 9:43 amBP handed all of us oil and gas analysts and statistical geeks a belated Christmas present last week when it published its Statistical Review of World Energy 2009. This year’s review, the 58th consecutive edition that BP has published, gives a great overview …
Jobs in the pipeline — Enbridge
by Stuart Hampton, June 3, 2009, 2:18 pmThere are 3,000 new jobs available in Wisconsin and Minnesota!
Don’t look now, but the economy is beginning to stir after the enforced hibernation of the general economic collapse that was prompted by the failure of the financial and real estate markets. Even the oil and gas sector is coming …
