Editor's Notebook

Editor's Notebook: Best Days For Natural Gas Still Ahead

While many in the natural gas industry are uncomfortable with the push toward cleaner fuels and climate change legislation, a combination of factors is joining forces to ensure that natural gas might rightly be crowned as the preferred fuel for the 21st century.

Authored by: Jeff Share, Editor | February 2010 Vol. 237 No. 2

Editor's Notebook: ExxonMobil and XTO: A New Player in Gas

There are two takes on ExxonMobil’s $31 billion or $41 billion takeover of XTO Energy. One is an obvious Wall Street bias in terms of immediate results, while the other analyzes the long-term aspects.

Authored by: Jeff Share, Editor | January 2010 Vol. 237 No. 1

Editor's Notebook: A New Voice for Energy

Years ago, I endorsed the very lovely Anna Nicole Smith as a spokesperson for the natural gas industry. I gave this serious consideration. I now propose an even better candidate to represent our industry: Marshall, Texas’s own George Foreman.

December 2009 Vol. 236 No. 12

Editor's Notebook: An Argentine Adventure

Are we safe? Did we miss the bus?

I slowly open my weary eyes, marveling that I am alive and in one piece.

November 2009 Vol. 236 No. 11

Editor's Notebook: Expert Advice

I doubt that there is anyone more knowledgeable about the petroleum industry than Dan Yergin, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "The Prize," which has become the definitive history of the industry.

Authored by: Jeff Share, Editor | October 2009 Vol. 236 No. 10

Editor's Notebook: Don't Tempt Fate

This is the story of saints, sinners and a bobblehead named Elvis.

But wait…I’m getting ahead of myself.

Authored by: Jeff Share, Editor | September 2009 Vol. 236 No. 9

Editor's Notebook: Enough to Worry About

Will someone explain who the Gosselins are and why should I care about them? What do they have in common with Sarah Palin, Boone Pickens, Brett Favre, Michael Jackson and Joe the Plumber?

August 2009 Vol. 236 No. 8

Editor's Notebook: What They Didn't Say

If you’re like me, you’re curious about the deal that ExxonMobil (XOM) struck with TransCanada (TC) to participate in the Alaskan natural gas pipeline project.

Authored by: Jeff Share, Editor | July 2009 Vol. 236 No. 7

Editor's Notebook: Aubrey McClendon Knows How to Sell

That Aubrey McClendon is some kind of salesman, isn’t he?

McClendon is the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Chesapeake Energy Corp., one of the largest producers of natural gas in the U.S.

Authored by: Jeff Share, Editor | June 2009 Vol. 236 No. 6

Editor's Notebook: Ten Years On, Pipeline Safety Much Improved

For two days last month I sat through the API’s stellar pipeline conference in Fort Worth absorbing everything I possibly could on the issue of safety.

Authored by: Jeff Share, Editor | May 2009 Vol. 236 No. 5