U.S. cements status as global hydrocarbon superpower

This will be mostly natural gas from shale whose wells will run for twenty years unlike shale oil wells whose life ends at about five years.  Again, Canadian tar sands fixes this for tge USA.

At the same time massive canadian Gas is also reaching the pacific and will also supply this market.

North american reserves are huge and are getting to market.

U.S. cements status as global hydrocarbon superpower

12/26/2025 // Jacob Thomas // 1.1K Views

Tags: big government, Bubble, energy dominance, energy exports, energy security, energy supply, horizontal drilling, Hydraulic fracturing, hydrocarbon, liquefied natural gas, natural gas production, new energy report, oil production, power, progress, risk, shale revolution, supply chain, Trump, U.S. energy, Wood Mackenzie

The U.S. is the dominant global hydrocarbon superpower, leading the world in both oil and natural gas production due to the decade-long shale revolution.

It has become the world's largest exporter of liquefied natural gas (LNG), with projections to supply 30% of global LNG output by 2030, leveraging this capacity as a tool of international diplomacy.

The transformation was enabled by technological breakthroughs in hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, which unlocked vast shale deposits and turned the nation from a major energy importer into an export titan.

This energy dominance provides profound economic and geopolitical influence, giving the U.S. unprecedented leverage over global energy security, pricing and supply alternatives for allies.

Domestically, the shale boom has generated millions of jobs, lowered energy costs and revitalized manufacturing, with sustained high production levels projected for years to come.

In a stunning reversal of fortune, the United States has solidified its position as the world's undisputed hydrocarbon superpower, a title driven by a decade-long shale revolution and now underscored by its commanding lead in the global liquefied natural gas (LNG) market. According to a major new analysis from global research and consultancy group Wood Mackenzie (WoodMac), the U.S. not only leads in oil and gas production but is leveraging this dominance as a potent instrument of international diplomacy.

As noted by BrightU.AI's Enoch, the shale revolution unlocked vast natural gas reserves through hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, dramatically increasing U.S. production. This surge in supply lowered domestic energy prices and reshaped global energy markets.

"You don't need to look too far back to find a U.S., which was building LNG import infrastructure, and now in under 10 years it has become the world's largest LNG exporter," WoodMac stated, highlighting the speed of the nation's energy transformation. This breakthrough, rooted in advanced hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling, unlocked vast shale deposits, turning the country from an anxious importer into an export titan.

The data is staggering. WoodMac's latest Horizons report projects that by 2030, the U.S. will account for a staggering 30% of global LNG output, maintaining its top exporter position ahead of Qatar and Australia. This growth is already in motion, with the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) forecasting gross LNG exports to surge from an average of 11.9 billion cubic feet per day in 2024 to 16.3 billion in 2026.

On the oil front, America's supremacy is equally pronounced. WoodMac noted that the U.S. "leads global oil production (including oil, condensate and natural gas liquids), delivering one-fifth of the world's volumes." The firm added that its closest competitors, Saudi Arabia and Russia, produce only 65% and 50% of U.S. volumes, respectively. The EIA confirms sustained strength, projecting average crude production to remain above 13.5 million barrels per day through 2026.

U.S. wields energy as diplomatic tool

This hydrocarbon hegemony extends beyond economics into the realm of geopolitics. Malcolm Forbes-Cable, VP of Upstream and Carbon Management Consulting at WoodMac, said: "The resurrection of U.S. LNG is a crucial reminder of what a resource-rich, free-market country like the U.S. can do. This hydrocarbon hegemony is now being leveraged as a diplomatic tool."

The implications are profound. As the top producer of natural gas, responsible for 25% of global output according to the Energy Institute's 2024 review and the top oil producer, the U.S. holds unprecedented influence over global energy security and pricing. The nation's expanding network of LNG export facilities, with five new plants under construction and more permitted, serves as infrastructure for both trade and foreign policy, providing allies with alternatives to single-supplier dependencies.

The domestic impacts continue to reverberate. The shale-driven boom has generated millions of jobs, slashed energy costs and revitalized manufacturing, with projections still pointing to significant future growth. Now, the focus is increasingly global. Each LNG tanker departing from the Gulf Coast or elsewhere carries not just supercooled fuel, but also the weight of American economic and strategic might.

WoodMac's analysis makes clear that the era of U.S. energy scarcity is a distant memory. In its place stands a hydrocarbon superpower, whose resource wealth, technological prowess and export capacity are reshaping global energy flows and diplomatic alliances for decades to come. The world is watching, and buying, as America writes the next chapter of the energy age from a position of overwhelming strength.

Abiotic Oil a Theory Worth Exploring

Essentially hydrocarbons are produced at the elemental carbon layer and this is the first place i have seen this apart from my conjecture twenty years ago. After all, a layer of elementasl carbon produces a handy slip plane for the crust and allows diamond mines.

This item also ends the biological argument firmly. just not possible. Oil and gas are amazingly renewable resources. Who thought?

I wonder just how long until textbooks change out.  right now we have a real assemblage of conforming evidence to support this theory and a pathway.

Abiotic Oil a Theory Worth Exploring

12-28-2025 • US News

It's our nature to sort, divide, and classify. We label ourselves to identify political leanings, religious beliefs, the food we enjoy, and the sports teams we cheer. The oil industry too has its own distinct labels which include the "Peak Oil" theorists, those who believe the world is fast depleting the finite supply of fossil fuel; and the pragmatists, those who recognize that engineering and technological advances in oil drilling and extraction continuously identify new reserves that make oil plentiful.

MISC COMMENTARY AND INFO:

Actually the earths core is a cobalt iron fission reaction releasing free protons into the surrounding magma these gain electrons as they travel up towards the surface as a high pressure hydrogen gas when they reach the bottom of the mantle they pass through a layer of elemental carbon bonding at 6000 ATM to form HC these polymerize as they percolate through the rock and concentrate in crevices and voids forming pools of long chain HC we call crude oil. Cynobacteria eat the HC chains producing parfin as a waste product this paraffin coagulates in surface crevices forming oil dams that block seepage to surface. The recreation in a laboratory of long chain HC has only been successful in a hot isostatic press at 6000 ATM. PArasynthetic oils made from biological materials are left chiralty and contain only half the energy of petrochemical with right chirality. Example; bio methane is 5000BTU per cubic foot methane is 10,000BTU. The biologic signal found in petrochemical deposits is parasitic rather than biomass origin. The biomass does form a butimin seep liquid but is not teh same as asphalt or ground seep oil. A common misconception fostered by oil proponants is that fracking causes oil seepage into ground water this is not correct fracking fluids are injected into existing wells to push sand away from the well head allowing the high pressure oil to refill the voids. Fracking lowers oil field pressure and during initial short duration over pressure actually pushes paraffin and sand into non well head fissures reducing field seepage. The fact of abiotic oil has been a major issue for both enemies of oil and oil producers as oil is an abundant renewable resource lowering the limited resource evaluation in a closed economic system like precious metals. 

Two examples of oil replenishment are Eugene Island in the Gulf of Mexico the well was capped in 1971 as many were at that time due to false peek oil beliefs also in Mercer county PA these wells were known as positive pressure high specific viscosity wells or thick crude slow wells. After the Hurricane katrina hit Eugene island well heads pressure assays were done to check for leaks they found a pressure higher than the original drill strike and began pumping again off that well head. In Mercer county near Oil City capped well heads were discovered to have higher pressure than the derated well caps were safe at. So the oil field was reopened feeding into the keystone pipeline. These productive oil fields when not tapped increase in pressure until seeps take place and catastrophic field inversion can tale place. In the north end of peru along the Amazon basin side of the border of Ecuador and Argentine oil prospecting company attempted to tap into a natural oil dome and seep field the cocabola trees in the area had adapted to incorporate oil into their wood producing beautiful highly sought after prestige lumber products. The argintine company shattered a natural limestone cave roof above the oil accumulation causing a sink hole and an oil volcano, like a mud volcano the soil and oil peculated to the surface covering a 275,000 acre area of the Amazon basin. I negotiated the argument between the Suare and Local farmers to enable clean up operations to start in 2012 the field produces enough profit to maintain teh mitigation for the duration of the flow. Last I checked teh oil seep had covered 375,00 acres and is now at 167,000 acres so it is subsiding due to exploitation of the resource.

This helped pay for 20,000 homes to be built providing much needed indigenous housing.

The war on oil is a war to contain and restrict teh growth potential of an abundant planet so that enemies of mankind can claim dominion over a world not even remotely theirs.

We will come to know that those who restrict natural abundance in any form are enemies of human kind and should be and sahll be rendered ineffectual and irrelevant in coming years their claim and goal of domination is a inherent misguiding of their allegiance to death.

The Arabian field has about 50 years

There are 38 million barrels of oil and 137 billion cubic feet of natural gas estimated to flow beneath Lake Pontchartrain alone

Here are the proven US current oil field capacities as of 2015 new numbers put this at roughly 6000x larger but the WEF has curtailed this tremendous wealth to try and capture it.

These are proven numbers as of 2015 before Trump allowed the full capacity to be actualized in 2018

1. Eagleville (TX) – 238 million barrels

2. Spraberry (TX) – 99 million barrels

3. Prudhoe Bay (AK) – 79 million barrels

4. Wattenberg (CO) – 47 million barrels

5. Briscoe Ranch (TX) – 62 million barrels

6. Kuparuk River (AK) – 29 million barrels

7. Mississippi Canyon (Fed Gulf) – 15 million barrels

8. Wasson (TX) – 19 million barrels

9. Belridge South (CA) – 23 million barrels

10. Green Canyon (Fed Gulf) – 27 million barrels

Top 10 Natural Gas Fields

1. Marcellus Shale (PA & WV) – 2,836 billion cubic feet

2. Newark East (TX) – 1,951 billion cubic feet

3. B-43 Area (AR) – 1,025 billion cubic feet

4. San Juan Basin (CO & NM) – 1,024 billion cubic feet

5. Haynesville Shale (LA) – 1,425 billion cubic feet

6. Pinedale (WY) – 568 billion cubic feet

7. Carthage (TX) – 653 billion cubic feet

8. Jonah (WY) – 239 billion cubic feet

9. Wattenberg (CO) – 304 billion cubic feet

10. Prudhoe Bay (AK) – 147 billion cubic feet

This wealth works out to about 600 million USD per US citizen

Europe's Farmer Protests Are A Warning America Can't Ignore

regulation and agriculture rarely mixes well.  Ask the USSR how well that worked out.

Long term, Ag is transitioning toward robot suported regenerative agriculture which will replace our industrial approach.  It will still demand farmers.  the problems we see today will all disappear under better methods and knowledge.  You really need to uderstand where we all came from and just how long it took.  This is what evolution looks like.

now imagine rotational farming in which  a field is planted with cover crops for cattle feeding during winter then rotating to a crop without turning the soil while other fields grow fodder andvall that.  key is the steady increase in carbon content.  It still demands the human eyeball.  The key to all this will be natural animal husbandry.

Europe's Farmer Protests Are A Warning America Can't Ignore

Saturday, Dec 27, 2025 - 06:00 PM

Authored by Mollie Engelhart via The Epoch Times,

I want to be very clear.

Yes, I am a regenerative farmer.

Yes, I farm without chemicals.

Yes, I speak publicly—on podcasts, from stages, and in print—about better ways to grow food.

But I never villainize farmers. Not conventional farmers. Not farmers locked into systems they did not design. Not farmers working with razor-thin margins, massive equipment debt, weather risk, and policy pressure stacked against them.

No one wants to be the generation that loses the farm.

And yet that is exactly what is unfolding across Europe right now...and quietly, steadily, in the United States as well.

Over the past two years, farmers across Europe have mobilized at a scale that should dominate headlines. Instead, it has been treated as background noise.

In the Netherlands, farmers have protested nitrogen rules that would force mass farm closures—even among low-input and regenerative operations. In France, farmers have blocked highways and surrounded Paris with tractors, protesting fuel taxes, land-use restrictions, and impossible compliance burdens. In Germany, tens of thousands of farmers drove tractors into Berlin over the removal of diesel tax exemptions that many farms rely on to survive. In Belgium, farmers dumped produce and manure outside EU buildings in Brussels. In Poland, Romania, and Hungary, farmers have protested cheap imports and regulations that apply to domestic producers but not foreign competitors.

These are not isolated events. They are sustained, multinational protests by people who feed entire continents.

And yet the coverage is minimal, fleeting, or framed as an inconvenient disruption rather than an existential warning.

European farmers are not protesting environmental responsibility. Many already practice conservation, reduced inputs, rotational grazing, cover cropping, and soil-building methods.

What they are rejecting is regulation divorced from reality.

Under policies driven by the European Union and initiatives like the European Green Deal, farmers face rules that impose arbitrary nitrogen caps per acre, treat synthetic nitrogen and organic nitrogen as if they are identical, require land to be taken out of production regardless of local context, and demand extensive reporting and compliance that small and mid-size farms cannot absorb.

This is no longer about practices. There are fully regenerative farmers—no chemicals, integrated livestock, biologically active soils—who are still being regulated to death.

Biology cannot be legislated by spreadsheet.

Cows on grass are not the same as animals in confinement. Cover-cropped fields with livestock integration are not the same as continuous monocropping. Rainfall, soil type, slope, climate, and ecosystem function matter.

Yet modern regulation ignores all of this.

Instead, it relies on modeling, averages, AI projections, and “eco-science” disconnected from outcome-based measurement. These rules are written far from the fields, enforced uniformly across radically different landscapes, and paid for by farmers who were never invited to the table.

If governments want fewer chemicals in the food system, the solution is straightforward: ban the chemical. Then step back and let farmers adapt and innovate.

What does not work is regulating farmers themselves with arbitrary input limits that punish nuance and reward consolidation.

When farming becomes unworkable, land changes hands.

Small and mid-size farms fold first. Family land is sold. Consolidation accelerates. Institutional capital moves in. Farmers become tenants—or disappear entirely.

European farmers understand this. That is why they are angry. They are not fighting for comfort. They are fighting for their land, their livelihoods, and their way of life.

They want to be left alone to grow food.

What Europe is experiencing is not a foreign anomaly. It is a preview.

In the United States, the regulatory burden on farmers and food entrepreneurs is already staggering. Joel Salatin titled his book “Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal” because for many farmers, that is not hyperbole—it is daily life.

Every permit, inspection, compliance mandate, and fine functions as a form of taxation without representation.

No founding generation imagined a country where every carcass must be stamped by a federal inspector, where farmers are criminalized for selling food directly to their communities, or where innovation outside industrial models is functionally illegal.

And yet here we are.

If all this interference produced extraordinary health outcomes, perhaps the argument could be made that it was worth it.

But Americans are sicker than ever.

More than 40 percent of adults are obese. Nearly half of adults have prediabetes or type 2 diabetes. Metabolic dysfunction is now normal.

This is not happening despite regulation. It is happening alongside it.

So why, after decades of food and farm regulation, are health outcomes collapsing?

Because regulation does not target the true problem. It protects corporate interests.

Farmers do not have powerful lobbies. Chemical companies do. Seed conglomerates do. Large processors do.

Regulation often preserves harmful substances in the food system while making it illegal for farmers to operate outside centralized, industrial pipelines.

After the Food Safety Modernization Act under President Barack Obama, many farmers were suddenly unable to sell directly to grocery stores.

Food had to travel farther. Middlemen became mandatory. Small producers were pushed out.

The result was less fresh food, lower nutrient density, and greater distance between people and their food.

We may have reduced certain types of foodborne illness—but we did not create a healthier population.

Every layer of interference pulls us further from food, farmers, and biological truth.

European farmers are not extremists. They are early warning systems.

They are telling us that overregulation destroys resilience, undermines food security, and centralizes control of land and food.

They are telling us that stewardship cannot be mandated by spreadsheet.

And they are asking something profoundly reasonable.

Talk to us. Not at us.

Invite farmers to the table. Regulate at the chemical level if something is unsafe. Measure outcomes, not inputs. Reduce bureaucracy instead of expanding it.

Why are tractors filling European cities while the media barely notices?

Because acknowledging these protests would require admitting something uncomfortable: that governments are overreaching, that farmers are right, and that the systems sold as “for the public good” are failing both the public and the people who feed it.

What’s happening in Europe should concern every American.

Because once you regulate farmers out of existence, you don’t get them back.

And no society survives long after it breaks its relationship with the land—and the people who know how to work it.

Mike Benz just examined Epstein files and he’s got a telltale theory…

I posted a long time ago that his profile surely was that of an Intel operative running a honey pot at the least.  Here his level of real access was senior CIA at least and of course, none of it is your business.

My own private network saw folks who could not be real and also independent.  that was Jeffery.

Understand he used and was used.  And he hunted amoung the rich and Famous.  it is still not your business.

Mike Benz just examined Epstein files and he’s got a telltale theory…

https://revolver.news/2025/12/mike-benz-just-examined-epstein-files-and-hes-got-a-telltale-theory/

When President Trump agreed to release the Epstein files, the reaction from the left was rapid and telling. The left-wing media had been blabbering nonstop about “accountability,” and then it suddenly went quiet. The typical voices on the left who recently pretended to care so deeply about the Epstein files once Trump was back in office also got strangely silent.

Rest assured, that silence wasn’t accidental.

When Trump made the documents public, they exposed relationships, access, and proximity to power that are impossible to explain away as some coinky-dink. And once the photos began circulating, it became pretty darn clear why so many lefties preferred this story stay buried.

One particular image has resurfaced, and it captures Bill Clinton in a relaxed, “free willy” pose, soaking in a hot tub, taking in all the elite perversion around him. This photo sums up the dynamic that defined Epstein’s world better than anything.

It’s such a damning photo that left-wingers are freaking out. Podcaster Keith Edwards rushed to X to try to salvage the situation, pretending that if there are photos this bad of Clinton, then just imagine what they must have of Trump.

Of course, that argument makes no sense at all. It’s just another cope session from a Stage 5 TDS sufferer, desperately clinging to a fantasy world of his own making.

Of course, there are other photos of Bill and his buddy floating around, and those of you old enough to remember the golden age of Saturday Night Live will probably appreciate this comparison:

Images like these of Bill Clinton and his BFF are exactly why the conversation changed the moment the files were released. You’re looking at US leaders with real access, and you can see how comfortable Epstein was around powerful people, like it was no big deal. Just part and parcel for this billionaire pervert.

And once you really sit with that, it gets a lot harder to keep pretending Epstein was just some lone bad guy who slipped through the cracks.

Which brings us back to the files…

Because the deeper you dive into Epstein’s activities, the harder it is to keep pretending he was just some rich guy with a few bad habits. What these records actually show is a man operating in spaces most regular people wouldn’t touch with a ten-foot pole, with access and privileges that don’t make any sense on the surface.

According to material now being discussed openly, Epstein wasn’t just mingling with politicians and celebrities. He was interfacing with government infrastructure, intelligence-adjacent operations, and international financial networks that sit far outside the normal reach of private citizens.

So now the real question is this: how did Epstein get all that highfalutin influence, who enabled it, and why was his access allowed to drift into areas tied to covert aviation, arms-linked money, and intelligence-era logistics?

That’s why what Mike Benz has been saying is getting a lot of attention. He went through the documents and is now walking people through facts that make it pretty difficult to deny Epstein was far more embedded in government operations than anyone has ever admitted.

Wall Street Apes:

This is INSANE 🚨 Mike Benz does through Jeffrey Epstein documents

“Jeffrey Epstein negotiated the f*cking contract to move the CIA’s proprietary airliner, Southern Air Transport, which was busted running drugs and guns during Iran-Contra”

“He (Epstein) personally was the authorized signatory on the deal with Southern Air Transport to move it to a military base in Columbus, Ohio, to service the Limited

Hey, any of you guys got any bright ideas about how you would go about in 1994, convincing the Central Intelligence Agency to move its proprietary CIA airline used for covert operations, based in Miami, to f*cking up and move its entire operation to f*cking Columbus, Ohio, just to service your personal company instead of the CIA?

What do you think he cold called the CIA? You think he just schmoozed the CIA? Or is it because he was handling Khashoggi’s money during Iran-Contra that purchased the guns that Southern Air Transport a decade earlier was moving?

Adnan Khashoggi is the notorious Saudi Arabian billionaire arms dealer and international middleman. He was one of the world’s most prominent arms brokers in the 1970s and 1980s, facilitating massive deals between Western defense contractors (like Lockheed and Northrop) and the Saudi government, earning billions in commissions.

Jeffrey Epstein was so deeply involved in our government and international affairs

What Mike Benz is laying out forces people to really think about what Epstein was doing and how totally unusual his role was. The story we’ve been told about some wealthy creep with a lot of time on his hands was clearly a cover-up. When you look at the contracts, the access, and the specific government activity that Benz points to, it becomes harder to wave this away as coincidence or exaggeration.

If Epstein was able to negotiate deals involving sensitive aviation infrastructure, operate around intelligence-era logistics, and move comfortably in spaces tied to arms-linked money, then the obvious biggest question is how that was allowed to happen in the first place. People don’t just trip and fall into that kind of high-level access. It requires a lot of trust, permission, and powerful people on the inside.

Mike is reminding Americans that the Epstein story was never about some criminal pervert. It was about power, protection, and a system that was oddly and remarkably excited to help and accommodate him.