FLAME Conference 2024 Takeaways
At the 30th anniversary of the FLAME conference in Amsterdam, RBAC’s COO, James Brooks, met with energy industry colleagues to discuss the state of the energy transition, geopolitics and the role natural gas and LNG will play in a lower carbon future. Key takeaways from FLAME 2024: Natural Gas and LNG will play a much […]
Has the Energy Transition Been Cancelled?
The Rush Toward Renewables A bold headline to be sure, but let me explain. the past few decades there has been a huge undertaking to move the energy industry away from traditional fuel sources such as coal and oil, and more recently nuclear and natural gas. The idea is to replace these fuels with alternative […]
LNG2023 Conference Takeaways
Dr. Brooks speaking at the LNG2023 Conference. Source: Club LNG Twitter RBAC’s founder and CEO, Dr. Robert Brooks PhD, and our Director of Business Development, James Brooks, recently attended the LNG2023 conference in Vancouver. Dr. Brooks presented Europe’s options for making up the loss of natural gas imports from Russia using G2M2® Market Simulator for […]
Global Natural Gas Outlook – Is it too soon to be hopeful?
In three short years, Natural Gas and LNG markets have gone through enormous turmoil: a two-year Covid-19-pandemic-induced natural gas demand slump, a labor and supply chain breakdown, and a demand-rebound energy crisis further exacerbated by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and the subsequent sanctions placed on Russia, all with varying degrees of impact across the different […]
FLAME Conference 2023 Takeaways
Graph: G2M2 Insights Visual Analytics for Global Gas and LNG Some key takeaways for the FLAME conference 2023: Natural gas and LNG will continue to play an important role in the energy transition, but European governments and companies do not want to commit to any long-term infrastructure investments or binding contracts when there is a […]
GPCM version 12.2.9.22 Now Available!
RBAC is pleased to announce the release of GPCM 12.2.9.22. The release includes several important improvements and bug fixes, as seen below. Improvements When importing a scenario from another database, the user will be prompted whether they wish to replace the history table from the import database. This question is now asked at the beginning […]
GPCM 23Q1 Base Case Release
The 23Q1base quarterly GPCM database has been loaded to the RBAC website for download. Below is a short 23Q1base Forecast Bulletin with highlights from this new release. We have also attached a .pdf for your convenience. For more information or assistance, please call RBAC Technical Support at 281-506-0588 x112.
Do Energy Security and Economics “Trump” All?
Back in 2018 at the United Nations General Assembly, then United States President Donald Trump cautioned, “Germany will become totally dependent on Russian energy if it does not immediately change course.” Following that warning diplomats and other foreign leaders were seen laughing at the idea. Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov reportedly said at the time, “Supplies […]
GPCM 22Q4 Base Case Release
The 22Q4base quarterly GPCM database has been loaded to the RBAC website for download. Below is a short 22Q4base Forecast Bulletin with highlights from this new release. We have also attached a .pdf for your convenience. For more information or assistance, please call RBAC Technical Support at 281-506-0588 x112.
GPCM version 12.2.8.17 Now Available!
RBAC is pleased to announce the release of GPCM 12.2.8.17. The release includes several important improvements and bug fixes, as seen below. Improvements We have added a date filter to the graphs available in the Calibration Summary report. The Gross Crossborder Flows report now includes prices weighted by flow. Added Delete Results to the menu […]