{"id":733,"date":"2013-06-18T04:46:10","date_gmt":"2013-06-18T09:46:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/?p=733"},"modified":"2013-06-18T09:54:25","modified_gmt":"2013-06-18T14:54:25","slug":"natural-gas-revolution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/2013\/06\/18\/natural-gas-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Natural Gas Revolution?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Natural gas revolution, perhaps, is real, but it will take more to make it a real revolution.\u00a0 There is no doubt that\u00a0shale development has made a major leap in gas supplies.\u00a0\u00a0 However, energy is just a means to an end.\u00a0 \u00a0In order to make this a real revolution, we need to see ingenuity in using natural gas.\u00a0\u00a0 With the largest spread between natural gas and oil we should start seeing advancements in gas to liquids.\u00a0\u00a0 I have done much in this area and have failed to come across something transforming in this field.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

You can have all the energy you need and more, but if you don\u2019t use it in a productive fashion you will end up like a third world producer of energy for others to exploit.\u00a0\u00a0 As a domestic policy focusing on finding and developing energy is valid, but in the end, it is how you plan to use it.\u00a0 We need energy because it brings value to society by enhancing our way of life\u00a0from keeping us warm in the winter to allowing us to read at night.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

So much debate is focused on the industry on how many jobs it can create.\u00a0 Who really cares?\u00a0 Why would one want an economy built on the means not the ends?\u00a0\u00a0 The less we can require of our means the greater the value of the ends become.\u00a0\u00a0 The notion of a grand green economy to the massive employment of natural gas or coal is quite unproductive for the long run.\u00a0 Jobs in a sector which only enables you the option<\/strong> to live better cannot deliver much value as in the sector that actually implements better living.\u00a0 Natural gas has an opportunity for electrification, chemicals, petroleum products, goods manufacturing, heating, etc\u2026 Focus is needed on how we use natural gas.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Currently natural gas is still being flared around the world including the US.\u00a0 In Iraq alone they are flaring quite bit – <\/span>http:\/\/blogs.platts.com\/2013\/06\/17\/iraq-flare\/?sf429145=1<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0 For a country who is lacking consistent electricity it would make sense to build up the infrastructure to transport and use the gas for electrification.\u00a0\u00a0 Ingenuity in developing a means to manage stranded gas and\/or increasing the value of that gas is lacking.\u00a0\u00a0 This will be a revolution as soon as we are able to reduce and\/or eliminate flaring of natural gas.\u00a0\u00a0 The fear is we found a way to find more natural gas, but in the end flare it off in search of the higher value liquids product.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

A revolution requires more than a one-sided story.\u00a0\u00a0 Perhaps the low price signal is the beginning in terms of the market place action.\u00a0\u00a0 However, there is much needed on the domestic policy front. We need to stop focusing on policies aimed at boosting production and creating an economy from developing energy and\u00a0start to\u00a0focus on an economy on using the energy in a productive fashion.\u00a0\u00a0 Then, and only then, will it be considered a revolution.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As you ponder the path of energy please do consider All Energy Consulting as potential partner. \u00a0We do technology valuation to forecasting commodities.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Your Energy Consultant,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

David K. Bellman<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

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Natural gas revolution, perhaps, is real, but it will take more to make it a real revolution.\u00a0 There is no doubt that\u00a0shale development has made a major leap in gas supplies.\u00a0\u00a0 However, energy is just a means to an end.\u00a0 \u00a0In order to make this a real revolution, we need to see ingenuity in using […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":14,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,3],"tags":[134,14,13],"class_list":["post-733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-market-insights","category-natural-gas","tag-green-economy","tag-natural-gas-2","tag-shale-gas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=733"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":735,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/733\/revisions\/735"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/allenergyconsulting.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}