The United States is beginning to realize the strategic benefits of the fracking revolution. And they just keep growing.
This week at the IHS CERAWeek energy summit in Texas, Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz said that the United States anticipated "becoming big players" in the global liquefied natural gas market and that "there's a good chance that we will be LNG exporters on the scale of Qatar," which he noted was the world's largest LNG exporter.
A surge in military spending;
Accentuating the positive in Crimea
China invests big in Pakistan;
Pakistan arrests 47 Indian fisherman;
Russia to build $2 billion pipeline in Pakistan;
Militants feel pressure in Pakistan;
$45 billion in Afghanistan aid unaccounted for;
Ghani visits Iran
China eyeing new infrastructure projects in Nepal;
Beijing to triple investments in Iranian oil fields
Less than a month after it was signed in Lausanne, Switzerland, the framework nuclear deal between Iran and the P5+1 powers is already beginning to pay dividends - for Iran, that is.
Even before the April 2 accord, the enforced isolation that brought Iran's ayatollahs to the nuclear negotiating table back in 2013 had begun to erode, progressively undermined by hungry investors eager to return to "business as usual" with the Islamic Republic. But since the framework deal was signed, the floodgates have opened in earnest.