Crude Films   May 07, 2010

In light of the ongoing oil spill disaster in the Gulf of Mexico and the mushrooming whipping BP is taking, I did some hunting around for films on the oil industry. With so much bad-mouthing of the industry giant, I’ve got reputation risk on my mind. Aside the fact that eleven men were killed in the platform explosion, and an unprecedented environmental disaster is unfolding, BP is going to have a lot of scrubbing to do in order to remove the tarnish from their name.Of course, BP’s not the only...

Posted by Shaun Randol at 08:22 PM

Who's Driving?   Apr 12, 2010

Tuesday afternoon of EIA’s annual conference found me in a standing-room-only panel discussion on “Short-Term Energy Prices: What Drivers Matter Most?” The massive, global audience that reads this blog will no doubt be familiar with my recent series on “what makes energies different?”—the last post of which focused on the pricing impacts of storage and convenience yield. Well, I thought I’d tap into the minds of some experts to see which energy price drivers they deem important, to see if our th...

Posted by Shaun Randol at 07:39 PM

The Recession Will Not Define This Decade   Apr 08, 2010

Lawrence Summers, Director of the National Economic Council, provided the luncheon keynote for EIA's 2010 conference. To my left at the lunch table (delicious, by the way), a planning director for a Minnesota energy cooperative; to my right, a U.S. Navy commander charged with improving energy efficiency in nuclear submarines. Over a delectable chocolate cake, Summers delivered his address. Here are some highlights:The current economic recession, Summers says, will not be remembered as a decade-d...

Posted by Shaun Randol at 05:00 PM