Geopolitics Vs. Economics
Will North America Miss the Boat on LNG Exports? James Brooks, RBAC Inc., July 15, 2015 With the recent shale revolution in North America, the potential to become a world leader in supplying a reliable clean energy source has never been higher. US natural gas prices have hovered around $2-$4 while overseas markets have seen price […]
I hate to ruin your day, but oil prices are about to drop to $30
Despite all indicators of oil prices making a recovery albeit slow, they are actually going to drop down into the $30 range. Am I crazy? If I were to have told you last July that oil prices were going to hit $50 by January, would you have considered me crazy then? The truth is that […]
How to Knock a Curve Ball Out of the Park
Positioning your feet in the Natural Gas Market James Brooks, RBAC Inc., May 4, 2015 Baseball is considered one of America’s greatest pastimes. It is a game of both skill and strategy and frankly it is just fun to play. The game is a feature of many classic movies with an abundance of “life lessons” […]
RBAC Foreshadowed Resurgence in GTLs
While the jump in gas-fired generation demand in 2012 has made headlines due to low natural gas prices versus coal feed-stocks, the industry has been looking further out with LNG exports and GTL prospects as potential demand solutions. The economics of LNG exports work well in light of world-wide demand and location; but as noted […]
North America LNG Exports to Eastern Hemisphere An Emerging Sea Change in World Gas Prices
However, since 2007, North American gas production has grown strongly, and is on a pace to approach 31 Tcf in 2012. This reflects rapidly expanding gas production from shales, which should account for about one third of North American gas production in 2012. Because this growth has outstripped the growth in North American gas demand, […]
A Wind from the Northeast: Major Changes Coming in Gas Market Pricing
Washington D.C., August 22, 2012 – “In 2011, annual gas production in the Appalachian Basin tested 2 Tcf, and is approaching 3 Tcf in 2012. This has substantially reduced the call on Gulf Coast and Western Canada gas production by the Northeast states,” says Dr. Thomas J. Woods, Senior Consultant of RBAC, Inc. In its […]
New Natural Gas Infrastructure: How Much and Where?
The natural gas industry finds itself in a new era of natural gas pipeline development. Shale gas has created a new paradigm. Some shale production has been developed with minimal impact to the interstate pipeline grid because of its location near large legacy pipelines. So the biggest activity in these instances has to do with […]
Allocation of Natural Gas in Time of Shortage:
A Mathematical Programming Model of the Production, Transmission, and Demand for Natural Gas under Federal Power Commission Regulation Dr. Robert E. Brooks, RBAC, Inc. Submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Operations Research at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, September 1975 Abstract The purpose of this study […]
Other Publications by RBAC Inc.
“Optimizing Complex Natural Gas Models”, presented at the INFORMS National Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, April 1995 “GRIDNET Natural Gas Operations Optimizing System”, with C.P. Neill, presented at the ORSA / TIMS National Meeting, Anaheim, CA, August 1991 “The TENRAC Gas Pipeline Competition Model,” in Analytic Techniques for Energy Planning, B. Lev, F.H. Murphy, J.A. Bloom […]
