Category: Energy News Beat

California Running on Empty – A National Security Issue of Biblical Proportions about to happen.

Energy News Beat 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 […]

Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz force us to reconsider material benefits of fossil fuels

Energy News Beat 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 […]

Six Weeks that Turned Energy Security in Front of Net Zero and Deindustrialization

Energy News Beat 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 […]

Chevron Strategic Asset Swap in Venezuela

Energy News Beat In a significant move signaling renewed foreign investment in Venezuela’s oil sector, Chevron has executed a strategic asset swap with Petróleos de Venezuela S.A. (PDVSA) and its subsidiaries. Announced on April 13, 2026, and signed in Caracas in the presence of interim President Delcy Rodríguez, the deal allows Chevron to sharpen its […]

We Need to Redefine the Levelised Cost of Energy Models – David Turver Says They Are Junk

Energy News Beat For years, net-zero advocates have pointed to Levelised Cost of Energy (LCOE) charts from Lazard, IRENA, and government reports to claim that wind and solar are now the cheapest forms of electricity. These models supposedly prove renewables beat gas, coal, or nuclear on cost. But as Energy News Beat has long argued, […]

California’s Oil and Gas Crisis: From Military Threat to Mass Starvation

Energy News Beat 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 […]

Zeldin, Burgum, and Wright Break Ground on NESE Pipeline in New York City to Deliver Reliable, Affordable Natural Gas to the Northeast

Energy News Beat ENB Pub Note: This is a huge announcement from the DOE, EPA, and the DOI. We need more natural gas pipelines, or we aren’t going to make it, and I am pleasantly shocked that it is happening in New York. Great job! Contact Information EPA Press Office (press@epa.gov) NEW YORK – Today, U.S. […]

U.S. Oil Blockade Is Set to Boost American Exports, and Impact Consumers

Energy News Beat President Donald Trump’s naval blockade of the Strait of Hormuz is reshaping global oil flows in America’s favor. By choking off roughly 2 million barrels per day of Iranian crude—much of it headed to China—the U.S. is opening the door for American producers to capture massive new market share. U.S. crude exports […]

Peabody Energy May Be the Only Winner of the Strait of Hormuz Blockade

Energy News Beat As the U.S.-imposed blockade of Iranian ports in the Strait of Hormuz enters its critical phase, global oil and LNG supply chains are in chaos. Tankers are idled, LNG prices have spiked, and energy-short nations in Asia and Europe are scrambling for alternatives. The result? Coal—reliable, abundant, and easy to stockpile—is surging […]

A Structural Shift in Capital Allocation in the Energy Sector is Underway Due to the Iran Conflict

Energy News Beat The 2026 Iran conflict, which escalated in late February with U.S.-Israeli strikes and Iranian retaliation—including the effective closure of the Strait of Hormuz and attacks on energy infrastructure—has triggered the largest supply disruption in global oil market history. Nearly 20% of the world’s oil and significant LNG volumes have been taken offline, […]