Feb
8
Methane Is the Future
February 8, 2010 | 2 Comments
Its as safe a declaration as can be made, methane, the main part of natural gas is a major future fuel.
Case Item No. 1:
In the U.S. alone, the combination of horizontal drilling and reservoir fracturing services becoming more affordable has moved up the U.S. reserve by 35% in existing fields of 2007 to 2009. Fracking [...]
Jan
18
A No Fear Oil and Gas Well Fracturing Method
January 18, 2010 | 1 Comment
Darrell Kosakewich was investigating new ways to settle the tailings ponds created by oilsands mining operations. As he was investigating it occurred to him that discharging an electrically charged emulsion would settle out and release the entrained water and oil. Then the first time he froze a coal sample and it shattered into a piece, [...]
Jan
14
A Stimulus Plan That Works
January 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment
The best stimulus plans are from private investment. Two come to mind in the energy and fuel field that have serious positive and international benefits. They’re simply pipelines for crude oil. The significance is in the effects. Better than government stimulus -private stimulus also has a multiplier effect without the bleeding from taxpayers. In the [...]
Jan
13
A Major New Natural Gas Find
January 13, 2010 | 4 Comments
McMoRan, a mid sized independent oil company out of New Orleans led a partnership of investors to a significant quantities of natural gas in a 5-mile-deep well it drilled in about 20 feet of water at McMoRan’s Davy Jones prospect just 10 miles off the Louisiana coast.
For those not watching the close up to shore [...]
Jan
12
Its Not the End of Oil Just Get What’s Already Found
January 12, 2010 | 2 Comments
The Doomer crowd has been talking up ‘peak oil’ for years and if one uses the price mechanism as only static, unmoving, never to go up, ‘peak oil’ could work. But prices are going to reflect demand vs. the supply. Each close call of demand closing on supply will get a price spike up followed [...]
Dec
30
Oil Refining and Consumers Get a Little Help
December 30, 2009 | 1 Comment
The U.S. oil refinery business is up against the wall for profiting, coping with oil prices and the economic atmosphere. Regulatory issues raised by every government from local to federal have imposed requirements, compliance, and regulations across the full imaginable board – each with increased costs and inefficiencies. It’s a miracle there’s any gasoline or [...]
Dec
16
Lots of Oil Right Here In the US
December 16, 2009 | 2 Comments
Its December, most people have the holidays in mind so those of you here are serious. Holidays also bring opportunities for discussions so today I’m bringing up the major oil reserve here in the U.S., a major world energy resource, and covering some of the useful information that can ally some fears.
When it comes to [...]
Nov
24
A Method to Get Natural Gas to Transportable Methanol
November 24, 2009 | Leave a Comment
A lot of natural gas is lost, burned off or simply too remote to get to market. Several efforts have made press releases, but most are non-scalable or not cost effective. Yet, the lure of so much fuel and energy in remote natural gas is a strong enticement.
A catalyst manufactured by the American chemist Roy [...]
Oct
27
More Natural Gas Hydrates and Glimmer of Research & Development Hope
October 27, 2009 | Leave a Comment
The Chinese Ministry of Land and Resources (MLR) has announced that natural gas hydrate samples had been discovered in northwestern China’s Qinghai province, the first land-based find of this kind in China. This adds to the North American land based known locations.
The discovery was made at an altitude of 4,062 meters above sea level in [...]
Oct
22
The Canadian Boom Booms In The U.S.
October 22, 2009 | 1 Comment
The Canadian Energy Research Institute (CERI) has a new study out that finds the economic impact of oil sands development in Canada will boom in the U.S. economy and is expected to lead to the creation of more than 342,000 new U.S. jobs between 2011 and 2015. That’s up close timing and a serious number [...]
