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• Open, Direct Competition Between Natural Gas and Nuclear Energy In UAE

  The UAE is one of the world's most richly endowed oil and gas producers, but it has recently signed a contract with a consortium of South Korean manufacturers to build 4 large (1400 MWe) nuclear power plants to supply the electricity baseload in the country. This decision is completely rational. The UAE has a growing, energy intensive industrial base, summer temperatures that frequently exceed... Posted Mar 16 2010, 02:21 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch Shell, Qatar

• If Natural Gas Producers Are Shifting Resources to Produce More Oil and Electricity Producers Are Burning More Natural Gas, What Will Happen to Natural Gas Prices?

  It is a widely repeated mantra in the business press that natural gas prices are low and expected to remain that way for the foreseeable future. The people who make these statements point to the above average quantity of natural gas in storage and to the "unprecedented" increase in the magnitude of the US natural gas resource base as reported by the Potential Gas Committee. However, it is... Posted Jan 02 2010, 06:15 PM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: ExxonMobil, natural gas demand

• ExxonMobil Bets That Natural Gas Prices Will Rise - Placing A Similar Bet Is Like Betting With The House

  There have been many analytical reports issued in the 8 days since ExxonMobil announced that it was purchasing XTO Energy, one of the largest independent natural gas producers in the United States, for a total of approximately $41 billion. ($31 billion in ExxonMobil stock plus assumption of $10 billion in XTO debt.) Some analysts have cheered the announcement as a validation of the new paradigm that... Posted Dec 23 2009, 04:50 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: ExxonMobil

• Secret Message Embedded in ExxonMobil's Outlook for Energy

  On December 11, 2009, I downloaded a copy of ExxonMobil's publication titled "Outlook for Energy: A View to 2030" . When I searched through the document to see what ExxonMobil, a large supplier of both oil and natural gas that compete with nuclear energy for market share, had to say about the future of nuclear energy. As a fact-driven company, ExxonMobil does not ignore nuclear and recognizes... Posted Dec 12 2009, 05:00 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: ExxonMobil, Future of Nuclear Energy

• More "Little Guys" Bragging About A Century of Natural Gas Supplies

  Back on September 25, 2009, I wrote about a three part National Public Radio special about the U. S. domestic natural gas that portrayed the industry as a "mom and pop" enterprise made up of thousands of small companies with little political clout in Washington, DC. I expressed my skepticism about that portrayal at the time. Just a couple of days ago, I wrote about the blitz that portrays... Posted Nov 03 2009, 05:27 AM by Atomic Insights Blog Filed under: clean natural gas, ExxonMobil