RBAC 2025 Mid-Year Seminar Recap
On June 11th in Houston, energy industry professionals, executives and decision-makers gathered for RBAC’s Mid-Year Seminar: “RBAC’s Natural Gas Outlook: Exploring North American and Global Gas Markets with RBAC Inc.” Attendees across the spectrum of energy came to increase their knowledge of the short, medium, and long-term outlooks as well as various scenarios that could potentially occur […]
Gas Futures vs Gas Outlook: Exploring the Divergence
In another edition of Armando Cavanha’s podcast, RBAC’s Scott McKenna and Cyrus Brooks came together to discuss differences and similarities on how forward curves and simulation models paint a picture of the natural gas market’s future, new sources of demand, and supply reliability. Moderated by Armando Cavanha, the conversation dives deep into the difference between market-based […]
FLAME Conference 2025 Takeaways
At the FLAME 2025 conference in Amsterdam, RBAC’s COO, James Brooks and Director Dr. Ning Lin, discussed the state of the energy transition, geopolitics and the role natural gas and LNG will play in a lower carbon future. Dr. Lin spoke on ‘With limited upside for global LNG demand in 2024-25, will LNG continue to […]
Geopolitical Implications of Natural Gas Supply and Shipping Challenges
In a recent episode of the Oil Ground Up podcast, Dr. Robert Brooks, founder and CEO of RBAC, joined host Ian Wagner for a wide-ranging conversation about the state of global LNG and natural gas markets. With decades of experience in energy modeling and scenario forecasting, Dr. Brooks brought clarity to an industry facing rapid […]
Will there be a Resurgence in the Gulf of Mexico?
What’s the Window of Opportunity for Energy Professionals? While oil and gas production in shale plays has gotten most of the glory in the last two decades and since 2016 for natural gas with exports opening up, the Gulf of Mexico (GoM) [also recently called Gulf of America] is poised for a comeback. Can it […]
Earth Day: People, Energy, and the Planet
Images from Adobe Stock Environmental protection is a human goal, and thus it follows it must also be (at least in part) for human good. Yet too often, the news and even some campaigners may leave out the very people they aim to protect. At RBAC, we see a different path. Our purpose is to […]
To Be or Not to Be – Russian LNG Revisited
Image from Adobe Stock There is no doubt we hear echos and rumblings of a possible return of Russian gas to Europe—not that it ever left, in actual fact. Let’s take a look at Russian LNG. In early 2024, RBAC’s Dr. Robert Brooks analyzed Russia’s LNG export strategy, highlighting challenges like Arctic logistics, limited market […]
Natural Gas and LNG in the World Podcast Highlights
RBAC’s CEO and Founder, Dr. Robert Brooks once again had an insightful conversation with Armando Cavanha covering what has taken place in the global gas market in the first quarter of 2025. It was an incredible discussion that covered all facets of the market and the interplay between key regions such as North America, Europe, […]
The Double Prime Mover: Electricity Runs the Future, But Natural Gas Keeps It Running
In a recent post, Mark P Mills put it bluntly: “Electricity is the new oil,” pointing out that while oil powered the 20th century’s industrial growth, electricity is now the prime mover of the digital economy — from AI and data centers to EVs and cloud infrastructure. If that is true, then Natural Gas is […]
Beyond the Price Curve: How Natural Gas Market Simulation Reveals Real Opportunities
There IS uncertainty in energy markets. Even before major action on tariffs, on January 23, 2025, the U.S. Energy Information Administration released a report on rising natural gas prices. Rather than look at it from a simple duality, assuming LNG exports affects prices, let’s look deeper and farther about the problem of prices, supply and […]
