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Saudi-led oil price war impacts N.C.& Atlantic offshore drilling
John Locke Foundation ^ | 5/21/15 | Mitch Kokai

Posted on 06/01/2015 2:43:38 PM PDT by brownwill6767

Saudi Arabia’s unwillingness to follow its longstanding policy of propping up oil prices means North Carolina might have to wait for offshore energy exploration.

That’s the assessment of Daniel Fine, associate director of the New Mexico Center for Energy Policy and project leader of a group developing New Mexico’s state energy policy. Fine described a Saudi-led oil “price war” during a presentation to the John Locke Foundation’s Shaftesbury Society.

In the video clip below, Fine explained how falling oil prices tied to Saudi Arabia’s new policy affect North Carolina’s energy options.

(Excerpt) Read more at lockerroom.johnlocke.org ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: drilling; geopolitics; hydrocarbons; methane; northcarolina; oil; opec; petroleum
Here is the You Tube shorter video of Dr. Daniel Fine speaking at the John Locke Foundation --> https://youtu.be/hAIkBzazIcE
1 posted on 06/01/2015 2:43:38 PM PDT by brownwill6767
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To: brownwill6767

Looks like the price war will be with us a while. There was an article posted the other day-maybe on FR, not sure where I saw it, about a new fracking method that doesn’t use water. That was the only holdup to fracking in Saudi. Suddenly those declining oil fields in the Kingdom have a new lease on life.


2 posted on 06/01/2015 2:46:22 PM PDT by balch3
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To: balch3

I’m beginning to “wonder” if ISIS isn’t the plan of the overlords to capture/control Saudi oilfields, and return to high oil prices.


3 posted on 06/01/2015 2:57:22 PM PDT by bigmak007 (They who can't control their own passions, want to passionately control others.)
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To: brownwill6767

New Mexico is a landlocked state. I’m dubious about their veracity on the subject of anything going on in the ocean a thousand miles away. ( mileage is estimated )


4 posted on 06/01/2015 3:23:59 PM PDT by webheart (We are all pretty much living in a fiction.)
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Neosoviet nonsense. Not drilling the ANWR and not building the Keystone XL, and not crushing opposition to fracking -- now THAT is kissing OPEC's ass, as well as Putin's ass. Not surprising to learn that the anti-fracking astroturf was brought to us by the Russians.
5 posted on 06/02/2015 2:14:30 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (What do we want? REGIME CHANGE! When do we want it? NOW!)
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To: webheart

If you look at the 1 hour video there is a great intro by the CEO of the Jesse Helms Center about Dr. Fine.
Dr. Fine has long been a friend of North Carolina working closely as a trusted advisor to the late Senator Jesse Helms on many geopolitical
crises.

Dr. Daniel Fine of the New Mexico Center for Energy Policy discusses North Carolina’s approach to shale gas and hydraulic fracturing, or “fracking.” Fine offered these comments during a Feb. 27, 2012, presentation to the John Locke Foundation’s Shafesbury Society. Video courtesy of CarolinaJournal.tv. Watch full-length video of JLF events here:

Dr. Daniel Fine discusses North Carolina’s approach to shale gas and hydraulic fracturing and takes on the enviromentalists (two minutes)—
http://youtu.be/4Lbn9diK1PA
The full one hour video can be seen here–>”North Carolina?s approach to natural gas fracking” —>http://lockerroom.johnlocke.org/2012/02/27/north-carolinas-approach-to-natural-gas-fracking/

Dr. Daniel I. Fine works with the New Mexico Center for Energy Policy. He is a longtime research associate at the Mining and Minerals Resources Institute, MIT. Fine is also a policy adviser on nonconventional oil and gas. He is co-editor of Resource War in 3-D: Dependence, Diplomacy and Defense, and has contributed to Business Week, the Engineering and Mining Journal and the Washington Times. Fine has testified on strategic natural resources before the U.S. Senate committees on Foreign Affairs and Energy and Natural Resources. In this speech, he discusses “Shale Gas Wars: From Pennsylvania to North Carolina.”


6 posted on 07/14/2015 12:02:21 PM PDT by brownwill6767
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