Africa’s Energy Moment: From Poverty to Abundance
Introduction Africa is at an important crossroads in its energy development. The continent possesses significant oil and natural gas resources, a rapidly growing population, and enormous potential for industrial development. At the same time, hundreds of millions of people continue to lack reliable electricity and access to clean cooking fuels. In today’s episode of the […]
RBAC’s November Seminar: When the Market Changes, Can Your Analysis Change With It?
It’s not just a normal seminar we’re holding in Houston on November 18th. Look at the state of the market. Even in tumultuous times, it has been quite a few weeks for natural gas and LNG. Europe is once again competing with Asia for LNG. Buyers in China, India and Pakistan have been responding to […]
Solitude in a Crowded Room
Solitude in a Crowded Room They say three is a crowd, and West Texas just got more crowded. RBAC recently wrote about the abundance of new pipeline egress under development in the West Texas Permian Basin. In our recent article “Can New Pipeline Capacity Keep Up with Permian Production?,” published on August 4th, we provided […]
2026 RBAC User Conference Recap
The RBAC 2026 Gas & User Conference, held September 9th to 11th welcomed users, partners, and energy industry experts to Denver, Colorado, where over three days, we explored shifting natural gas and LNG markets, infrastructure development, rapidly growing power demand, new tools and approaches to market analysis, and especially, ever more practical ways to get […]
The Biggest Natural Gas Pipeline Projects You Should Know in 2026 Part 2
Projects most likely to change gas flows, prices, LNG supply and energy security Part 2: Where Pipelines Meet Geopolitics In Part 1, we looked at major pipeline developments in North America and Europe. North America is seeing large new pipelines built around takeaway capacity for growing production and feeding both LNG exports and power demand, […]
I Asked If Gas Could Be Argentina’s Silver Lining. Here’s What Happened Next.
Argentina’s Gas Future Is Taking Shape A few years ago, I asked whether natural gas could be Argentina‘s “silver lining,” writing about Argentina’s enormous Vaca Muerta resource and asked the critical question: Could Argentina actually get that gas to market? At the time, things to watch: reversing regional pipeline flows as Bolivian production declined, accessing […]
Dr. Brooks Joins FERC’s Technical Conference Discussing the Impact of Covid-19 on the Energy Industry
Houston, Texas, July 8, 2020, Dr. Robert Brooks, President and founder of RBAC, Inc., will be a panel participant at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Technical Conference regarding impacts of Covid-19 on the Energy Industry, Thursday July 9, 2020 starting at 9a EDT. Negative crude oil prices, production curtailments and shut-ins, LNG exports dropping by […]
RBAC’s 2019 Summer Gas Modeling Internship Program
The entire staff at RBAC, Inc. congratulates Chong Wang on starting his Ph.D. program in Economics. Chong along with fellow graduate students Birdy Chen and Jiaxin Yang have been participating in RBAC’s 2019 Summer Gas Modeling Internship Program in the Economics department at the University of Texas at Austin. They have been working with Dr. […]
Gazprom’s Hard Choices are Europe’s Too
Houston, Texas, April 5, 2019 – In the April 1, 2019 newsletter article “Gazprom Faces Hard Choices: Naftogaz Ukrainy”, Natural Gas World’s Editor in Chief, William Powell, quoted Andrei Kobolev, CEO of the integrated Ukrainian monopoly Naftogaz, as follows: “Russian gas pipeline monopoly Gazprom will not manage to complete Nord Stream 2 by the start […]
Energy Insanity: Russian LNG Expected in Boston
Houston, Texas, January 10, 2018 – RBAC’s Founder, Dr. Robert Brooks, commented recently on the effect of archaic protectionist policies still in effect that create both unnecessary and detrimental barriers to efficient internal energy markets and shine light on the need for the Trump administration to continue its efforts to strengthen the US economy by […]
