Posted in Guyana, Offshore Energy - General, tagged elections, Guyana, International Court of Justice, territory dispute, venezuela on May 1, 2025| Leave a Comment »
Pending a final decision in the Guyana-Venezuela dispute, the Court ordered Venezuela to refrain from conducting elections or preparing to conduct elections in the disputed territory administered by Guyana.
The outcome of this case has major implications for oil and gas development offshore Guyana.
Posted in climate, energy policy, Offshore Energy - General, tagged 5 year leasing plan, elections, Maduro, production santions, US offshore oil and gas leasing, venezuela on September 24, 2024| Leave a Comment »
2024 will be the first year since 1958 without a single OCS oil and gas lease sale. There would not have been a sale in 2023 either were it not for a legislative mandate. The only 2022 lease sale was a micro-sale in the Cook Inlet that resulted in only a single bid. So, at the end of 2024 three years will have elapsed with only one meaningful sale, and that sale was mandated by Congress.
The current plan is for these de facto sanctions on US offshore production to continue. The Dept. of the Interior’s 5 year leasing plan includes a maximum of 3 sales, by far the fewest sales in any 5 year plan in OCS program history.
Meanwhile, the sanctions on Venezuelan production were further eased with the understanding that the Maduro regime would hold fair elections. To the surprise of no one, the evidence strongly suggests that those elections were not fair. Nonetheless, the sanctions on production have not been reimposed.
Apparently, the climate activists who have imposed their will on the OCS oil and gas program have less influence over our policy toward Venezuela. Or perhaps the production (and consumption) of Venezuelan oil is cleaner and greener (🙃 sarcasm intended!)
Posted in climate, energy policy, Uncategorized, tagged BBB, elections, farmers, Netherlands on March 19, 2023| Leave a Comment »
The BBB or BoerBurgerBeweging (Farmer-Citizen Movement) party won 17 seats in the Senate, more than any other party.
Posted in energy policy, Norway, Offshore Energy - General, tagged elections, energy policy, Jonas Gahr Stoere, Norway, offshore oil and gas on September 15, 2021| Leave a Comment »
While Conservative Party leader Erna Solberg will no longer be Prime Minister, her likely replacement, Labor leader Jonas Gahr Støre, seems to be a moderate on energy issues:
“I believe that calling time on our oil and gas industry is the wrong industrial policy and the wrong climate policy,” Stoere told reporters.
KFGO
Monday’s result means Labour neither needs the Marxist Red Party nor the anti-oil Green Party to rule, thus lessening the pressure for big shifts.
“Labour will not make any dramatic changes to the oil industry,” said Teodor Sveen-Nilsen, an energy analyst at Sparebank 1 Markets.
EuroNews
Bud's Offshore Energy (BOE) 