Arsenal Resources, a privately held pure-play natural gas explorer and producer focused exclusively on the Marcellus Shale, is exploring strategic options—including a potential sale that could value the company near $1.5 billion—according to sources familiar with the matter. The company has engaged financial advisers to gauge buyer interest, as the Marcellus basin continues to see […]
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ENB Pub Note: This article is from America Outloud, and Ronald Stein, P.E., and Dr. Lars Schernikau have been on the Energy News Beat podcast! They are fantastic, and we recommend reading America Outloud. An extensive economic review of South Africa’s Integrated Resource Plan 2025 (IRP 2025), approved by Cabinet in October 2025 has been conducted by the authors, and the report concludes […]
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As U.S. stock futures surge ahead of Monday’s open, signaling yet another leg higher for the major indices, energy markets tell a very different story. The reopening of the Strait of Hormuz—following Iran’s recent declaration that the vital waterway is “completely open” during the ceasefire—has triggered a sharp plunge in oil prices. This is great […]
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Texas is at the epicenter of America’s AI revolution, and the numbers are staggering. The Electric Reliability Council of Texas (ERCOT) has released a preliminary Long-Term Load Forecast projecting peak electricity demand could hit approximately 367,790 MW (367.8 GW) by 2032—more than four times the current all-time record of 85,508 MW set in August 2023. […]
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The global energy markets are in flux as of mid-April 2026, shaped by severe disruptions from the ongoing Middle East conflict (centered on Iran and the Strait of Hormuz). This has curtailed roughly 7–10 mb/d of crude, NGLs, and refined product exports in March–April, triggering sharp price spikes and inventory draws. Brent crude averaged $103/bbl […]
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The U.S. shale revolution didn’t just transform American energy—it created a blueprint the rest of the world now wants to copy. After two decades of explosive growth that made the United States the world’s top oil and gas producer, the playbook of horizontal drilling, multi-stage fracking, and relentless cost-cutting is crossing borders. Energy security, once […]
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This ain’t your Cats and Dogs living with each other, this is a full-blown apocalypse about to happen. This is a follow-up podcast to the one I had with Mike Ariza, and this time, David Blackmon and Professor Mike Mische are here to discuss the potential 7 Executive Orders that President Trump must enact to […]
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ENB Pub Note: This article was originally posted on America Outloud by Ronald Stein and Yoshihiro Muronaka, and we highly recommend signing up and reading their material. ________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Recent calls for a more realistic shift from “decarbonization” to “low carbon” suggest that discomfort with ideology-driven climate policy is finally beginning to surface in public debate. […]
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In just six weeks, the global energy paradigm has flipped. What a decade of climate summits, net-zero pledges, and green industrial policy could not achieve, Iran’s effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz—and the raw reality of AI’s insatiable power hunger—has done in a flash. Energy security is no longer a side note; it is […]
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ENB Pub Note: This article was first published on the California Globe, and I will be interviewing Mike Ariza tomorrow with Professor Mische and David Blackmon on this crisis. California’s Oil and Gas Crisis: From Military Threat to Mass Starvation Since 2023, California’s policies have resulted in a loss of 700,000 barrels per day, or […]
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