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Andrew Weissman

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Articles

1.14.08	Climate Change & Energy Security - What's Really at Stake in the 2008 Election Topic: Environmental, Emissions & Carbon Management Article Viewed 7492 Times; 29 comments We know that 2008 is an election year. Just as was true eight years ago, the choice we make is likely to have far-reaching implications for the country. This time around, just like eight years ago, we may not realize immediately the full implications of our choice.

1.2.07	Playing with Fire - Part II Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 14163 Times; 69 comments Part I of this series summarized four major observations from my recent work: 1. The severity of the crisis is much greater than I assumed might occur when I first began speaking out on the potential for sharply escalating natural gas prices almost five years ago. 2. An energy supply gap of this magnitude could result in hundreds of billions of dollars per year in needless energy costs and seriously impede the growth of the U.S. economy.

12.15.06	Playing with Fire - The 10 Tcf/year Supply Gap -- Part I Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 27279 Times; 151 comments This is the first of a four part series of articles on the natural gas and electricity price and supply risks facing the U.S. economy. The first article provides an overview and summary. Subsequent articles will examine specific issues in more detail.

5.19.05	The Critical Need to Examine More Carefully The Role of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) In Meeting Future U.S. Energy Needs - Part 3 Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 6603 Times; 9 comments For the reasons discussed above, there is a compelling need to assess far more rigorously than has been done to date: 1. How much additional LNG realistically can be expected to be available to the U.S. market each year in the future.

5.18.05	The Critical Need to Examine More Carefully The Role of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) In Meeting Future U.S. Energy Needs - Part 2 Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 5735 Times; 1 comments The lack of any careful examination of these issues is particularly troubling for a number of reasons: 1. The possibility that LNG might play an important role in meeting U.S. energy needs has arisen only recently.

5.17.05	The Critical Need to Examine More Carefully The Role of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) In Meeting Future U.S. Energy Needs - Part 1 Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 5290 Times; 3 comments As a result of soaring oil prices, the U.S. currently is more focused on energy issues than at any time since the 1970's. While higher oil prices are the immediate catalyst for this interest, however, dependence upon imported oil is not the only or even necessarily the most important energy-related threat to the U.S. economy.

4.28.05	Reading Between the Lines in Crawford, Texas Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 7401 Times; 15 comments To his credit, President Bush went to the mat last week to try to pressure Saudi Arabia to commit to an immediate increase in oil production, by publicly expressing skepticism as to whether the Saudi's were doing everything they could to moderate prices.

5.7.04	Macro Level Trends Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 4935 Times; 5 comments Early this week, as we predicted might occur in last week's Market Report, both the spot market price for natural gas and prices in the NYMEX futures market jumped sharply.

12.3.03	Puncturing Natural Gas Myths -- Part III Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 7543 Times; 6 comments Once the real causes of this summer's higher-than-expected injections are better understood, it should be readily apparent that prices this summer could easily have soared far above the $ 6.00/MMBTU level reached early in June.

11.24.03	Puncturing Natural Gas Myths -- Part II Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 7804 Times; 5 comments No myth has been repeated as persistently - or has as little foundation in fact - as the near-universal belief that the much higher-than-expected injections into underground storage that began in late May of this year are attributable to large scale industrial "demand destruction" that purportedly began this Spring and Summer in response to the run-up in natural gas prices that occurred at about the same time.

11.21.03	Puncturing Natural Gas Myths -- Part I Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 12645 Times; 11 comments Does the U.S. still face a severe natural gas supply crisis during the remainder of this decade? If there is any remaining doubt regarding this issue, it should be thoroughly dispelled by the National Petroleum Council's recent Report to Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham.

8.27.03	Asking the Right Questions About the August 14th Black-Out Topic: Grid Operations Article Viewed 7968 Times; 24 comments As President Bush and others have commented, last week's Black-Out provides a fairly stark wake up call, reminding us how essential reliable electricity supply is to the functioning of our economy and revealing how vulnerable the Grid is to large-scale failures. It is important, therefore, that we not be afraid to ask tough questions regarding what occurred and the actions required to prevent such failures from occurring again in the future.

5.20.03	Recommendations for Immediate Action by Secretary of Energy Abraham Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 7736 Times; 7 comments I was encouraged to see Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham, in a major address this past Friday before the National Petroleum Council, go out of his way to draw special attention to "the looming challenges we face with respect to natural gas."

5.9.03	Days of Shock and Awe About to Hit the Natural Gas and Power Markets Part 1 Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 9044 Times; 8 comments Now that the Refill Season has begun in earnest, it may be important to evaluate the lessons learned this past winter and assess what is likely to occur in the natural gas and power markets during the remainder of this year.

5.9.03	Days of Shock and Awe About to Hit the Natural Gas and Power Markets Part 2 Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 7206 Times; 3 comments This is part 2 of Days of Shock and Awe About to Hit the Natural Gas and Power Markets.

1.27.03	A Cautionary Tale? Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 5242 Times; 3 comments It’s not often that historians can point to a particular moment at which an entire segment of the economy suddenly is transformed. Now that 2003 is drawing to a close, however, most industry observers agree that the energy industry experienced just such a moment on Thursday, January 23rd, at 10:30 a.m. EST, when the Energy Information Agency (EIA) issued its Weekly Storage Report for the week ended January 17, 2003.

1.8.03	A Cold Blast in Winter Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 6160 Times; 6 comments Over the past week, a much clearer picture has begun to emerge regarding the most likely weather pattern between now and the end of the winter heating season in March.

12.31.02	Is there Sufficient Natural Gas in Storage to Meet this Winter’s Needs? Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 4684 Times; 7 comments EIA’s most recent Weekly Storage Reports have been startling. For several weeks in a row, the weekly storage withdrawal figures reported by EIA have been far above the levels that might normally be expected for this time of the year – even after adjusting for weather:

12.19.02	The Coming Natural Gas Crisis Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 5378 Times; 17 comments A new study by EnergyBusinessWatch suggests that, after three years of unprecedented turmoil, the U.S. energy industry is about to face a new and potentially severe crisis: a sharp upward shift in natural gas prices that could permanently change the competitive positioning of many energy companies and persist for at least the next 5-7 years.

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