Over the past few months, cash strapped Chesapeake Energy has faced several headwinds as its leadership team misgoverned and aggravated the operations already marred by rock-bottom gas prices.
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Rock-bottom gas prices are already fueling a surge of new manufacturing activity in the U.S. Consumers, from big utilities to condo buildings in New York, are also converting to burning the cheap new gas.
There has been turbulence in businesses associated with coal as coal has lost its vigor lately as the preferred fuel option for electricity generation in the U.S. amid rock bottom natural gas prices.
Gas does now contribute 35% to power generation, but rock-bottom prices and a sniffiness about gas as oil's poor relation mean that exploiting its bounty (Saudi Arabia apparently has the world's fifth-largest gas reserves) has proven hard.
High demand equates to better profits, although cheap natural gas prices dent their bottom lines.
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Moreover, the oil and natural gas services industry currently is nearing the bottom of its cyclical decline, but is continuing its secular growth patterns.
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It is thought that recent high rainfall had displaced the CO2-rich water at the bottom, releasing a massive bubble of carbon dioxide gas from the lake in a natural phenomenon now referred to as "lake overturn".
Unlike offshore oil and gas production, offshore renewable energy projects often avoid thorny siting issues and enhance the bottom line.
The bottom line is that green-energy jobs cost taxpayers, on average, 15 times more than oil, gas, and coal jobs.
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