Tuesday,
June 26
June 26
U.S. Congress Geopolitics of Oil and Gas Hearing
The U.S. House Committee on Natural Resources’ subcommittee on Energy to discuss the shifting geopolitics of oil and natural gas. The U.S. became the world’s top producer of natural gas in 2009 after surpassing Russia, and the leading producer of hydrocarbons in 2013 after edging out Saudi Arabia, according to data by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. Over the last decade U.S. petroleum and natural gas output has surged by nearly 60 percent.