With the 2024 presidential election looming, energy and energy prices are in the news thanks to continually high gasoline prices (resulting from high oil prices) and overall inflation. As Americans look to the country’s future and policies that should take center stage in the next White House, there are a lot of reasons to support American energy producers and domestic oil and gas production.

The resiliency of US shale continues to confound skeptics. Despite fewer rigs drilling and fewer wells drilled,
US oil production hit 13 million barrels per day (mbd) in July of 2023 and remained above 13 mbd for the last five months of 2023. These production levels, 12.97 mbd on average for full year 2023, are above the pre-Covid record highs of 2019.

“Wind only works from winds and sun only works from the sun shining, and those are really expensive forms of energy because the intermittency,” Trisha Curtis, chief executive of the consultant group PetroNerds told InsideSources.

“If we put a pause in the permitting, that tells [the EU and Asia] this natural gas from America may not be available in the future,” Trisha Curtis, CEO of energy consultant Petronerds, told DVJournal.

“Both wind and solar, they just don’t give you a lot of energy,” Trisha Curtis, chief executive of the consultant group PetroNerds told NHJournal. “They require either a massive base load —  you have to have a backup power for when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining either with coal or with natural gas.”

“It’s horrible on every front because it claims to be about CO2 emission reduction, which it’s not,” said CSI Energy Fellow Trisha Curtis. “It’s beyond detrimental and devastating to the economic state of Colorado and it really doesn’t appreciate the economic realities at all.

“Both wind and solar, they just don’t give you a lot of energy,” Trisha Curtis, chief executive of the consultant group PetroNerds told InsideSources. “They require either a massive base load —  you have to have a backup power for when the wind isn’t blowing and the sun isn’t shining either with coal or with natural gas.”

In this podcast David Ledesma talks to Trisha Curtis, CEO of PetroNerds, about US gas and oil production, transportation and markets. US gas production has performed well since COVID and additional supply growth is clearly possible, but investment in infrastructure will require consistent regulatory and political support. Technology is also key, with production rigs having longer lateral lengths to increase and maximise gas production. The podcast further discusses oil and gas production trajectory and how environmental, social, and corporate governance (ESG) is imposing pressure on public oil and gas companies. Concluding the podcast, Trisha gives a view on what is required for LNG exports to Europe to rise (in Europe and North America) and how LNG exports can fit into Europe’s Energy Transition ambitions?