• Oil and Natural Gas

    Sustaining our revolution in oil and gas production should be a national priority, starting with a policy environment that welcomes investment, risk-taking, and job creation. It is important for our infrastructure to keep pace with this opportunity.

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  • Blog
    November 17, 2017

    Partnering to Find New Opportunities for U.S. Natural Gas

    This morning, the Global Energy Institute hosted the U.S. Trade Development Authority (USTDA), LNG Allies and others at U.S. Chamber Headquarters for the launch of the U.S. Gas Infrastructure Exports Initiative. The goal of the initiative is to connect American companies to new export opportunities
  • Blog
    November 15, 2017

    Four Things to Know about ANWR

    As the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee prepares to consider new legislation that would open a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to energy development, long-time players in the debate over Alaskan energy production are explaining why now is the time to unlock
  • Letters
    November 15, 2017

    U.S. Chamber Letter in Support of an Oil and Gas Leasing Program in ANWR

    Chairman Murkowski and Ranking Member Cantwell: The U.S. Chamber of Commerce strongly supports legislation expected to be considered on November 15, 2017, that would authorize the Secretary of the Interior to establish and administer a competitive oil and gas leasing program in the non-wilderness
  • Blog
    October 19, 2017

    Records Continue to Be Broken As US Crude Exports Flow

    The numbers are in from the first half of 2017, and American crude oil exports reached a record high of 900,000 barrels per day (b/d)—an increase of more than 300,000 b/d from the first half of 2016, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). Not only has the volume increased
  • Blog
    September 22, 2017

    EIA Gazes into its Crystal Globe

    The Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) latest International Energy Outlook 2017 (IEO) is hot off the presses. It provides a look at global trends in energy supply and demand from 2012 out to 2050. With the normal caveats about the difficulty of predicting the future, let’s take a look at some
  • Blog
    September 13, 2017

    If You Store It, They Will Come

    Fairly or not, few regions of the United States are more associated with deep and longstanding poverty as Appalachia. Poor infrastructure and relative geographic isolation have always placed the region at a disadvantage, and decades of various economic development efforts have yielded only slow and
  • Letters
    September 13, 2017

    Letter to Secretary Perry in Support of Appalachian Storage Hub

    Dear Secretary Perry: Congratulations on a productive initial six months as Secretary of Energy. As you continue your work to advance pro-energy policies for the American people, please know you have a partner in the U.S. Chamber of Commerce’s Global Energy Institute and the broader energy industry