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US Natgas Produc/on
US Oil Produc/on-Regional
EIA
April
2013
short
term
energy
outlook
forecasts
US
crude
oil
produc:on
to
increase
from
an
average
of
6.5
MMb/d
in
2012
to
7.9
MMb/d
in
2014
h$p://www.eia.gov/forecasts/steo/archives/Apr13.pdf
June 14th-2013 Oil produc:on from North Dakota's Bakken shale hit a new high in April and could exceed the state's forecast of 850,000 barrels per day by the end of the year, state regulators said on Friday. North Dakota's Department of Mineral Resources said April output rose 1.3%, or just over 10,000 bpd from a month earlier, to 793,000 bpd despite inclement weather condi:ons. Output was around 33% higher than a year earlier. Na:onwide, oil produc:on hit 7.37 million bpd in the week that ended 3 May - the most since February 1992, according to the Energy Informa:on Administra:on. Those numbers slipped by about 76,000 bpd last week to 7.22 million bpd, Bloomberg reported. About 75% of Bakken oil le\ North Dakota on trains in April, up from 71% in March, the state Pipeline Authority said. About 17% was shipped out via pipeline, down from 20% in March
Oil produc:on in Texass Eagle Ford shale forma:on rose more Than 77% in March from a year earlier, topping 500,000 barrels a day and pos:ng a record. The nine geographic elds that make up the majority of Eagle Ford yielded 529,874 barrels of crude a day, according to preliminary data released by the Texas Railroad Commission. The elds produced 298,266 barrels daily in March 2012. The Texas produced 2.3 million barrels a day in February, the highest monthly level since April 1986
Over the past three years, 815,000 bbl/ d of new pipeline capacity delivering crude oil to Cushing was added. Over the same period, only 400,000 bbl/d of new pipeline take-away capacity was added. During the next two years an addi:onal 1,190,000 bbl/d of pipeline capacity for delivering crude oil from Canada and the midcon:nent to Cushing is planned, but this is balanced by 1,150,000 bbl/d of planned pipeline capacity addi:ons to deliver crude oil from Cushing to the Gulf Coast. About 830,000 bbl/d of new pipeline capacity is planned to move crude oil directly from the Permian Basin to the Gulf Coast, avoiding the congested Midwest. If this capacity is constructed and fully u:lized, waterborne imports to the US Gulf Coast, par:cularly of light sweet crude oil, could drop signicantly, the EIA said.
h$p://www.cleanskies.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/2.11.2013_EuropeReport_FINAL- web.pdf
h$p://www.ferc.gov/industries/gas/indus-act/pipelines/horizon-pipe.pdf
Gas
Pipeline
Converted
to
Carry
Crude
Oil
from
Illinois
to
Gulf
Coast
h$p://www.ogj.com/ar:cles/2013/02/enbridge--energy-transfer-to-convert-trunkline-segment-to- crude-.html?cmpid=EnlPipelineFebruary252013
Enbridge Inc. and Energy Transfer will jointly develop a project to move 420,000-660,000 b/d of crude oil by pipeline from Patoka, Ill., to St. James, La., and the eastern Gulf Coast rening market by conver:ng certain segments of Trunkline Gas Co. LLCs system to liquids service. Trunkline is a subsidiary of Energy Transfer Partners LP and Energy Transfer Equity LP. The converted 30-in. OD crude oil pipeline would enter service by 2015, pending US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission approval of Trunklines July 2012 request to abandon certain designated segments of pipeline from natural gas transmission service. Crude slate and the level of subscrip:ons received in a pending open season will determine the pipelines capacity. Once completed, the project will span more than 700 miles, including a new lateral from near Boyce, La., to St. James. The St. James hub will provide access to reneries in the eastern Gulf Coast, as well as dock access for water-borne shipments. Enbridge and Energy Transfer would each own 50% of the joint venture. Enbridges par:cipa:on in the venture is subject to a minimum level of commitments being obtained in the open season, and on comple:on of due diligence. Crude oil reaches the Patoka hub from both western Canada produc/on and from the Bakken play in North Dakota through a variety of exis:ng pipelines. Enbridges Southern Access Extension pipeline will also deliver 300,000 b/d to Patoka star:ng in early 2015 (OGJ Online, Dec. 14, 2012). Energy Transfer describes the eastern Gulf Coast as a highly a$rac:ve market for Canadian and Bakken crude, but not currently accessible by pipeline. The Trunkline conversion would create the rst pipeline transporta:on op:on for moving crude oil to the eastern Gulf Coast from the US Midwest.
h$p://www.progressiverailroading.com/rail_industry_trends/ar:cle/Shales-in-the-West-well-beyond-the-Bakken-drive-crude-oil- trac-for-many-railroads--36140
May 2013--BNSF now moves about seven or eight unit trains per day out of the Bakken, carrying about 600,000 barrels of oil. And daily volume is projected to con:nue climbing, to 700,000 barrels by year's end and to 1 million barrels by some point in 2014. The dierence compared with several years ago is that Bakken crude now is being transported to more des:na:ons, says BNSF Vice President of Industrial Products Sales John Miller. BNSF expects to move crude to more than 50 des:na:ons by 2014's end. "First it went to Cushing and then St. James, [Louisiana], and now it heads in all direc:ons, including the East Coast," says Miller. "It tells the story of rail's exibility."
HTTP://UNCONVENTIONALENERGY.BLOGS.IHS.COM/2013/02/12/UTICA-SHALE-PROMISES-TO- MAKE-OHIO-AN-ENERGY-POWERHOUSE
2012 unconven:onal oil/gas ac:vity contributed value- added economic ac:vity of $4.1 billion IHS forecasts that this contribu:on will grow to $35.2 billion by 2035. 2012 U:ca shale new jobs - 39,000. 2020 will increase to 144,000 2035 to 275,000 2012 Ohios opera:ng shale/horizontal rig count was 9 rigs As of Feb 2013 549 permits issued 249 wells drilled 2013 shale /horizontal opera:ng rig count 25
h$ps://www.mecseminars.com/sites/default/les/presenta:on-les/Manufacturing %20Renaissance%20in%20Ohio%20Powered%20by%20Oil%20and%20Gas%20from%20Shale.pdf
h$ps://www.mecseminars.com/sites/default/les/presenta:on-les/Manufacturing%20Renaissance%20in%20Ohio %20Powered%20by%20Oil%20and%20Gas%20from%20Shale.pdf
US LNG/Natgas Exports
Global
LNG
Marker
Prices
-
Daily,
Feb.
2,
2009 July
31,
2012
Source:
US
LNG
Exports:
Truth
and
Consequence
by
Kenneth
B.
Medlock
III
PH.D
-JAMES
A.
BAKER
III
INSTITUTE
FOR
PUBLIC
POLICY
RICE
UNIVERSITY
Aug
12-2012
Pg.
17
Sources: Pla$s, US Energy Informa:on Administra:on, authors calcula:on US Henry Hub (HH) (NBP) the UK Na/onal Balancing Point (JKM) the Pla$s Japan/Korea Marker And a representa:ve crude indexed LNG price from 2009 to the present
h$p://ferc.gov/industries/gas/indus-act/lng/lng-proposed-poten:al.pdf
h$p://www.eia.gov/pub/oil_gas/natural_gas/analysis_publica:ons/ngpipeline/impex_map.html
LNG
Exports
Expedited
LNG
for
American
Allies
Act
of
2013
Senator
Barrasso
and
Congressman
Turner
introduced
Feb
6th
2013
the
Expedited
LNG
for
American
Allies
Act
of
2013
(HR
580,
S
192)
that
would
reduce
barriers
for
LNG
exports
to
NATO
allies
and
Japan,
giving
them
the
same
preferen:al
treatment
as
countries
that
have
free-trade
agreements.
DOE
Approves
non-FTA
LNG
Exports
Coal
Source: h$p://pubs.usgs.gov/of/1996/of96-092/Comp/main.gif
US Coal Resources
h[p://www.pla[s.com/newsfeature/2012/coaltransport/map
consecu:ve year, according to newly released interna:onal data. China's coal use grew by 325 million tons in 2011, accoun:ng for 87% of the 374 million ton global increase in coal use. Of the 2.9 billion tons of global coal demand growth since 2000, China accounted for 2.3 billion tons (82%). China now accounts for 47% of global coal consump:onalmost as much as the en:re rest of the world combined. Robust coal demand growth in China is the result of a more than 200% increase in Chinese electric genera:on since 2000, fueled primarily by coal. China's coal demand growth averaged 9% per year from 2000 to 2010, more than double the global growth rate of 4% and signicantly higher than global growth excluding China, which h$p://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.cfm?id=9751&src=email
Global gas consump:on may rise 19 percent by 2017 from 2010 levels as demand surges in Asia and the U.S. while Europes usage drops 1.6 percent, according to the Interna:onal Energy Agency. Increasing coal-red genera:on in Europe has cut gas demand by 3 billion cubic feet a day, according to Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., about 7 percent of consump:on. The IEA last year predicted a golden age for the fuel with new exports from America to Australia. Gas for delivery next month on the Netherlands Title Transfer Facility, the mainland European benchmark, traded at 27.50 euros ($35.65) a megawa$-hour yesterday, more than double the price four years ago, according to broker data compiled by Bloomberg. Thats equivalent to $10.43 per million Bri:sh thermal units and compares with $3.69 per million Btu for front- month fuel in the U.S., which fell 43 percent over the period. German power sta:ons make a loss of 11.25 euros a megawa$-hour from burning gas, according to Bloomberg calcula:ons of the so-called clean-spark spread, which takes into account electricity, fuel and carbon prices for next month. The equivalent measure when burning European coal for delivery to Amsterdam, Ro$erdam and Antwerp shows a prot of 14.22 euros a megawa$-hour. U.S. Central Appalachian Coal Futures for the next month traded at $59.43 a short ton on Oct. 29, excluding shipping, versus $84.85 a metric ton ($93.53 a short ton) for European coal. Burning coal has contributed to a 10 percent increase in EU carbon-dioxide output this year through September, according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance. First-quarter emissions from power genera:on in the U.S. dropped to the lowest since 1992 because of increased gas usage and a milder-than-normal winter, the EIA said in an Aug. 1 report.
h$p://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-03-12/europe-gas-carnage-shown-by-eon-closing-3-year-old-plant- energy.html
EON SEs Irsching-5 in Bavaria last year operated less than 25 percent of the :me as slumping power prices made burning natural gas unprotable by record margins. As Europes weak economy holds back electricity demand, cheaper coal, requirements to buy renewable energy and the collapsing cost of carbon permits are undercuyng gas-red plants. The pa$ern is repeated throughout Europe as u:li:es including Frances GDF Suez SA and Centrica Plc mothball gas plants. The impact is both environmental and commercial. Switching to coal increases emissions, while it lowers prot for gas plants, which generate almost a quarter of European power, and shrinks the market for suppliers led by OAO Gazprom. (GAZP) Gas-red plants are stopped three days out of four, Gerard Mestrallet, chief execu:ve ocer of GDF Suez, Frances former gas monopoly, said at a brieng on Feb. 28. The thermal industry is in crisis. There is overcapacity. The dierence between the cost of fuel and the price paid for the power generated reached a record low today. The so- called spark spread for the month ahead fell to as low as minus 18.35 euros a megawa$-hour ($23.87). Gas plants are also unprotable in France, the Netherlands, Spain and the Czech Republic, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. In the U.K., theyre barely breaking even. At the same :me, spark spreads for coal plants are protable in every European market tracked by Bloomberg as prices for the fuel drop.
US Renewables
US
Solar
Projects
h$p://www.seia.org/map/majormap.php
There are over 490 major solar projects currently in the database, represen:ng over 32 GW of capacity. The list shows that there is over 2.4 GW of major solar projects currently opera/ng. There remains an enormous amount of capacity in the pipeline, with over 29 GW of PV and CSP projects either under construc/on or under development. Under the Obama Administra:on, 16 projects have been permi$ed on federal lands, which will provide 6,058 MW of genera:ng capacity.
h$p://www.awea.org/newsroom/pressreleases/ocialyearendnumbersreleased.cfm
h$p://www.windpoweringamerica.gov/wind_installed_capacity.asp
Source: h$p://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:UnitedStatesPowerGrid.jpg
US Power Grid
CCUS Developments
h$p://www.argusmedia.com/~/media/Files/PDFs/Mk:ng/Argus%20NGL%20Shale%20Gas%20Special%20Report.ashx
h$p://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/ar:cle/Price-to-pollute-hits-record-high-4608417.php
June 18th The price to pollute is at a record high, with traders recently paying $270,000 for the right to emit 1 ton of vola:le organic compounds, a key ingredient in ozone, or smog. That's up from $4,500 per ton in January 2011. The record sale involved the city of Houston, which had 14.3 credits for vola:le organic compounds to sell a\er upgrading equipment at its Almeda Sims sewage treatment plant. The city also sold credits for 12.4 tons of nitrogen oxides, another ingredient in ozone, for $151,000 per ton to Amerex Brokers, a Sugar Land-based rm. The soaring price of smog credits - each equal to 1 ton of pollu:on - means the market is doing its job: prodding industry to reduce emissions. The allowances have become so valuable that for the rst :me since the system began nearly a decade ago, companies are looking for ways to cut emissions in order to sell their excess credits as a bo$om-line booster, traders said. "As the market price has signicantly increased over the past two years, it has sent signals to companies to make reduc:ons in emissions" of vola:le organic compounds, said Mike Taylor, who manages the emissions trading desk at Houston-based Element Markets. The brokerage rm assisted the city of Houston in the record sale, which was reported last week to Texas regulators. The market for these state-issued allowances, ocially called Emission Reduc:on Credits, appears to be driven by chemical makers, who are looking to expand in the Houston area a\er years in the doldrums. Despite the bull market, traders are worried about liquidity - the ease with which the allowances can be traded. There are so few available credits in greater Houston that NRG Energy has asked regulators to let it buy some from the Dallas-Fort Worth area to cancel out emissions of vola:le organic compounds at its coal-red power plant in Fort Bend County. The state environmental quality commission, however, has not allowed trades that are not in the same region. The market run began as Chevron Phillips Chemical Co., Celanese Corp. and other chemical makers started making plans to expand because of cheap and abundant natural gas
Arc/c Resources
The
U.S.
Geological
Survey
(USGS)
has
completed
an
assessment
of
undiscovered
conven:onal
oil
and
gas
resources
in
all
areas
north
of
the
Arc:c
Circle.
Using
a
geology
based
probabilis:c
methodology,
the
USGS
es:mated
the
occurrence
of
undiscovered
oil
and
gas
in
33
geologic
provinces
thought
to
be
prospec:ve
for
petroleum.
The
sum
of
the
mean
es:mates
for
each
province
indicates
that
90
billion
barrels
of
oil,
1,669
trillion
cubic
feet
of
natural
gas,
and
44
billion
barrels
of
natural
gas
liquids
may
remain
to
be
found
in
the
Arc:c,
of
which
approximately
84
percent
is
expected
to
occur
in
oshore
areas.
h$p://pubs.usgs.gov/fs/2008/3049/fs2008-3049.pdf
NSPS
President
to
announce
his
new
climate
change
ini:a:ves
on
Tuesday-CCS
likely
in
the
mix
NGOs
can
le
since
the
EPA
missed
its
deadline
are
wai:ng
to
see
what
the
Presidents
announcement
will
look
like
on
Tuesday
Class
II
vs.
Class
VI
will
be
in
the
mix
NSPS
GHG
reduc:ons
on
current
power
generators
Abundance
of
shale
gas
Renewable
Fuel
Standard
Renewables
geyng
cheaper
RCRA
h$p://www.rrc.state.tx.us/eagleford/EagleFordOilProduc:on.pdf