Global Gas & LNG Insights Podcast: Natural Gas and the Economic Outlook
Who will emerge as a top LNG player amidst all the uncertainty in the market? How are current geopolitical events impacting LNG trade? What is the impact of the U.S. LNG pause? Can Europe ensure supply security with fluctuating demand and supply constraints? How will the energy transition affect future demand? Dr. Ning Lin, Executive […]
Global Natural Gas Disruptions and the Role of Energy Market Simulation
RBAC’s Founder and CEO, Dr. Robert Brooks, joins David Blackmon to discuss exactly what energy market simulation is and its purpose in modeling real-world scenarios such as conflict in the Red Sea, slowdowns in the Panama Canal, reduced gas flows to Europe from Russia, the U.S. LNG export project permitting pause, and growth of emerging […]
How Propaganda Shapes Our Energy Choices Podcast
The ultimate goal of providing reliable and affordable energy for all can be accomplished through several different methods each with their own pros and cons. But, how can the noise and innate biases be ignored and only the objective facts be considered to determine the best course of action towards creating a brighter future for […]
A Conversation on Ending Energy Poverty Podcast
At RBAC, part of our mission is, “To contribute to global prosperity and sustainability through improvements in the quality and effectiveness of economic decisions made by the energy industry. This will increase the availability of clean and affordable energy throughout the world…” And with the backbone of clean and affordable energy, developing nations can truly […]
Global Gas & LNG Insights Podcast: The Present and Future of Russian LNG
How much LNG is Russia exporting? Where is this LNG going? What different scenarios exist for supply, demand and price fluctuations? Will Arctic LNG-2 succeed despite U.S. sanctions? How will Russia utilize the Northern Sea Route and to what effect? All of these questions and more are covered in the inaugural episode of Global Gas […]
Geopolitics and the Role of Gas in the Energy Transition
What would happen to the natural gas and LNG markets should the major canals and straits be blocked? Will natural gas on the North Slope ever happen? And for that matter, how about Arctic LNG? These are just some of the many topics covered in the enlightening and insightful podcast with Armando Cavanha, industry veteran. […]
2023 User Conference Recap
All Roads Lead to Galveston As Gas Market Experts Come Together With Texas’ best November weather, RBAC’s Annual Gas and User Conference took place in Galveston, Texas last week. It was a great follow up and success to last year’s1 in Austin. Everyone was happy to see colleagues and energy industry leaders from across the […]
African Energy Resources Must Benefit Africa
Africa Energy Week was huge. With thousands of attendees at the 5-day event, and multiple concurrent sessions, here are some takeaways from the continent which is the size of the U.S., Europe and China combined, and which is blessed with abundant oil, natural gas, and minerals. Strong Words When African leaders took the stage at […]
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 […]
Has Europe Moved Past Needing Russian Gas?
Europe’s Energy Crisis Back in May 2021, and like most countries, EU was on recovery, post-COVID, importing ~3 bcm of Russian natural gas a week from the various pipelines, and on May 19, 2021, the US announced it would remove sanctions on Nord Stream 2, and Russia was eager to open the taps, completing the […]
