What You Need to Know About the Latest Gulf Incident

by Kent Moors Ph.D. | published September 3rd, 2010

This is one of those heavy travel weeks. I returned yesterday (September 2nd) from Colorado Springs, where I was addressing a meeting of the Energy Impact Assessment Task Force of the U.S. Energy Council, and will be off to London for oil finance meetings tomorrow (September 4th).

In between, of course, we had another platform incident in the Gulf of Mexico.

The fire on the Vermilion 380 platform run by Mariner Energy Inc. (NYSE:ME) caused another round of telephone conversations yesterday afternoon and this morning – some of them with Congressional committee staffs in Washington… Read Full Article

Back to the Mailbag

by Kent Moors Ph.D. | published August 30th, 2010

As I sat there Friday, watching the market return to at least one day of sanity, I thought it was a good time to dig in and answer some more of your E-mails.

Let’s get right to them…

Q: I wonder about two issues that have been raised regarding natural gas.

The first is the environmental issue. I saw a documentary recently in which the filmmaker visited homes in three rural U.S. areas where fracking had been done to show, amongst other things, the ignition of tap water with a lighter. The… Read Full Article

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