Challenges Facing Domestic Oil and Gas Development: Review of Bureau of Land Management/U. S. Forest Service Ban on Horizontal Drilling on Federal Lands

Challenges Facing Domestic Oil and Gas Development: Review of Bureau of Land Management/U. S. Forest Service Ban on Horizontal Drilling on Federal Lands
Author: and Forestry, U.S. House of Representatives, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources &, Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources & Subcommittee on Conservation, Energy, and Forestry, U.S. House of Representatives
Publisher:
Total Pages: 88
Release: 2012-06-15
Genre:
ISBN: 9781477665817

Today the Subcommittee is meeting to review the future of oil and gas development on Federal lands in light of Administration proposals to enact complete bans on horizontal drilling on Federal lands. Earlier this year, the U.S. Forest Service of George Washington National Forest released a forest plan that had the Administration's preferred alternative as a ban on horizontal drilling on more than one million acres of Federal mineral estate. This plan as proposed by the Administration would essentially close the entire resource to energy development, eliminate a key priority in the multiple-use mission of Forest Service lands, and further erode our efforts to generate domestic energy security.

Oil and Natural Gas

Oil and Natural Gas
Author: V. C. Mtsiva
Publisher: Nova Publishers
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2003
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781590336564

Political words, machinations and policies galore cannot disguise US dependence on foreign petroleum and natural gas to keep the country moving. The ever-changing geopolitical scene complicates the pictures as does US willingness to use military force to keep the spigots open. This new book presents and analyses the current issues in this big-money, big-risk and non-trivial field.

Federal Income from Crude Oil and Natural Gas

Federal Income from Crude Oil and Natural Gas
Author: Nelson Holloway
Publisher:
Total Pages: 112
Release: 2016
Genre: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN: 9781634858700

The production of oil and natural gas in the United States has increased rapidly over the past decade. As of 2014, domestic production of crude oil had grown to about half of total consumption, and domestic production of natural gas represented almost 95 percent of total consumption. Domestic oil and gas production occurring on federal lands or in federal waters off the coast of the United States represented about one-fifth of total U.S. production in 2014. The Energy Information Administration (EIA) projects crude oil prices to average in the lower to upper $50 per barrel range through 2015. This lower price, if sustained, may impact long term oil development and lower production volumes. This book focuses on issues and options for federal income from crude oil and natural gas. It discusses potential budgetary effects of immediately opening most federal lands to oil and gas leasing, reviews U.S. crude oil and natural gas production in federal and non-federal areas, and provides a legal framework for offshore oil and gas development.

Oil and Gas in Africa

Oil and Gas in Africa
Author: The African Development Bank
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2009-08-27
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0191571369

The book, a joint work of the African Development Bank and the African Union, presents a comprehensive analysis of the oil and gas resources in Africa. It uniquely highlights, through country examples, and with an African focus but a global perspective, the specific challenges and constraints facing the continent as a whole in the exploitation and utilization of its oil and gas resources. It partly draws on a model that simulates the impact of high oil prices on African economies, a model that was developed by the Research Department of the Bank in a separate study. The roles of AfDB and AU are analyzed, considering their differing, but complementary, mandates geared towards the development of the continent. Finally, the book includes recommendations on the future directions and actions for maximizing benefits of Africa's oil and gas resources.

The Political and Economic Challenges of Energy in the Middle East and North Africa

The Political and Economic Challenges of Energy in the Middle East and North Africa
Author: David Ramin Jalilvand
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 400
Release: 2017-11-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 1351783483

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are in disarray, and shifts in the field of energy have the potential to drastically affect the course of political and economic developments in the region. Declining oil prices, skyrocketing domestic demand, the rise of unconventional oil and natural gas production in North America, as well as shifting patterns of global energy trade all put severe pressures on both producing and importing countries in the MENA region. Policy-makers are facing fundamental challenges in light of the duality of grand transformations in (geo)politics and energy. Changes in the field of energy require substantial political and economic reforms, affecting the very fabric of sociopolitical arrangements. At the same time, the MENA region’s geopolitical volatility makes any such reforms extremely risky. Including contributions by academics and analysts from both inside and outside the MENA region, this volume explores the changes in global and regional energy, the impact of changing international energy dynamics on politics and economies in the MENA region, and the challenges that will result. This is essential reading for researchers, postgraduates, and professionals in Middle Eastern and North African politics, global energy governance and regionalism.