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EVENT: Google Hangout on the Water-Energy Nexus

March 12, 2014
To celebrate World Water Day 2014, we’ve assembled a panel of experts to discuss the interdependent relationship between two important resources: water and energy. How can technology improve global accessibility to these resources? How can we ensure that they remain available to all who need them?
Please watch a recorded version of this live event below as our panelists discuss these pressing global issues.

Google+ Hangout on the Water-Energy Nexus
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NatGas: From Niche Player to Mainstream Contender

Dave Mccurdy American Gas Association
March 11, 2014
I’ve been to many State of the Union speeches and know first hand how powerful a policy driver they can be. That’s why I was particularly pleased to hear President Obama in his latest address call on Congress to “help by putting people to work building fueling stations that shift more cars and trucks from foreign oil to American natural gas.”
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No Skills Gap in the Oil and Gas Industry – It’s a Perception Gap

Shaun Crofton Imperial College London
March 10, 2014
Whether the skills gap in engineering I’ve been hearing about for two decades now is real or not is a matter of opinion. I don’t think a lack of qualified engineers is the biggest recruitment issue facing the oil and gas industry. The issue is that there’s a huge perception gap.
Let’s face it: The oil and gas industry doesn’t have a terribly good reputation among students and young people. This is largely because of what they hear in the media, opinions that in my view are chiefly fostered by ignorance and misrepresentation.
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How to Save the Shale Revolution

Robert A Manning Atlantic Council
March 06, 2014
“We’re in the first inning of a nine-inning game on the shale revolution in the United States,” Conoco CEO Ryan Lance recently boldly predicted. Given the dramatic impact of the shale revolution on the U.S., global energy and the geopolitical landscape—not to mention on declining GHG emissions—one can only hope he is correct.
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Fracking’s Water Habit Needs Swift Attention

Mindy Lubber Ceres
February 27, 2014
Fracking is a thirsty business.
A typical hydraulic fracturing well requires two to four million gallons of fresh water. Multiply that times hundreds of thousands of wells developed in the U.S. and Canada over the last decade and you get the idea – the shale revolution has an unquenchable water habit.

Although water use for hydraulic fracturing is a relatively small proportion of a state’s overall water use, at the local county or municipal level it is typically very high, often exceeding the water use of all residents in a region.
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Is Natural Gas Worse for Climate Change Than Diesel Fuel?

Michael Levi Council On Foreign Relations
February 26, 2014
Science has published an interesting and useful new paper on methane leaks in natural gas operations – but the New York Times chose to highlight the one thing in it that’s both unoriginal and shaky. Understanding that flaw reveals some useful pointers for policymakers.
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The Distributed Power Transformation

Brandon Owens GE
February 25, 2014
Decentralization is a growing, global trend.  The organization of resources and people is moving away from centralized systems toward integrated networks that include both distributed and centralized elements.
Distributed power technologies, which have been around since Thomas Edison built the first power plant in 1882, are increasingly used today to provide electrical and mechanical power at or near the point of use.
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Diversity and Divergence at Play in Natural Gas Boom

James Cameron Climate Change Capital
February 24, 2014
Companies, using technologies like horizontal drilling and fracking, are responding to the world’s massive and growing demand for natural gas when there is the right combination of geology, finance, technology, regulatory framework and public acceptance.
These factors are not universally present. We have diversity and divergence – and an absolute requirement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions worldwide – at play.

There is cause for caution because, as in all complex processes, there is risk.

Risk
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Rise of Africa's Petro-States

Amy Myers Jaffe University Of California Davis
February 24, 2014
Africa has been hailed by Time Magazine as “the world’s next great growth engine.” China’s trade with Africa is gigantic at over $166 billion. The U.S. is the continent’s second largest trading partner at $126 billion. Other nations, including India, Japan, Brazil, Malaysia, Turkey and the Gulf Arab states, are in hot pursuit of Africa’s oil and gas, timber, coal, minerals and farmland.
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Electrifying the Globe: 2014 and Beyond

February 21, 2014
Editor’s Note: Following the launch of the International Energy Agency’s much-anticipated World Energy Outlook, GE’s Power Conversion Business wanted to take a closer look at the electricity landscape, seeking to foster insight and conversation around the realities that the marine, oil and gas, energy and general industry markets face.
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