Jan

23

Natural Gas Will Be Changed to Oil

January 23, 2012 | 4 Comments

U.S. innovation, technology and willingness to share it has created an abundance of natural gas for the U. S. and will impact the rest of the world in the coming years.  There is also a great deal of natural gas that is ignored, where pipe-lining to market is impractical or uneconomic.  The price differential of [...]

Jan

20

Natural Hydrogen Storage Found

January 20, 2012 | Leave a Comment

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have found that hydrates, also known as methane hydrates in one form can hold and store hydrogen. Hydrates are a water ice and usually a natural gas compound that have been explored by researchers as a source of alternative fuel or storage medium for CO2.  The PNNL researchers [...]

Jan

16

Get Ready for Super Fracking!

January 16, 2012 | 4 Comments

Petroleum reservoir fracturing is set for a major improvement with new technologies going to work miles down from the surface and then out horizontally.  Called fracking, the process uses pressure to break into oil and natural gas rocks and prop channels for the petroleum products to flow back out.  Thus huge new supplies of oil [...]

Dec

27

Keeping An Eye On ExxonMobil

December 27, 2011 | 2 Comments

For nearly a year and two hundred plus posts we’ve looked at the leading edges of the energy and fuels context coming at us.  The leading one for half a century is petroleum and its not going away.  With fusion, man made alternatives, solar and geothermal in an even longer list, the one we need [...]

Dec

21

SRI International Develops a New Coal To Liquid Fuel Process

December 21, 2011 | 6 Comments

Make no mistake here; SRI International has the brainpower and skill set to come up with workable and commercial ideas that have scale in mind from the start.  Robert Wilson, Ph.D., director, Chemical Science and Technology Laboratory, SRI International said in the press release, “The implications of this research are expansive, including enhancing US energy [...]

Dec

6

A Better Way to Store Natural Gas

December 6, 2011 | 3 Comments

Natural gas needs to be very tightly compressed and cooling to very cold temperatures will help to get worthwhile volumes suitable for transport use. Those pressures and temperatures pose high levels of engineering and materials quality compared to a simple gasoline tank.  But the payoff for a low cost low-pressure ambient natural gas storage solution [...]

Nov

8

Getting Every Last Drop

November 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The Reservoir-on-a-Chip (ROC) is a novel miniaturization approach to study oil recovery in a microfluidic device, mimicking the pore structure in an etched silicon substrate of a naturally occurring oil-bearing reservoir rock. University of Alberta researchers have developed ROC as a way to replicate oil trapping rock layers and show energy producers the best way [...]

Oct

19

A North Sea Oil Discovery Gets Bigger

October 19, 2011 | 5 Comments

Back in August we looked at the world’s leading oil discovery firm, Statoil, out of Norway and its new field.  Statoil confirmed their new oil field would be a giant that at that date would be a 500 million to 1.2 billion recoverable barrel field.  That’s changed now, and for western hemisphere consumers, great news. [...]

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