May
9
Get Ready For Dual Fuel Vehicles
May 9, 2012 | 7 Comments
Not flex fuel – dual fuel. Flex fuel is a system that can use similar fuels in the same system such as pure gasoline to 85% ethanol. Dual fuel will use two differ fuels that will feed two systems. Sounds expensive, but natural gas at such low prices is driving a market. Natural gas prices [...]
May
8
Chevron is about to put the first deepwater drillship designed with the capacity to perform ‘dual gradient drilling’ to work. The ship is a Samsung 12000 design capable of operating in 12,000 ft (3,658 m) water depth and is equipped for 40,000 ft (12,192 m) drilling depth. Able to work in 2 1/3rd miles deep [...]
May
3
U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Secretary Steven Chu contributed a statement to an announced breakthrough in research into tapping the vast fuel resource of methane hydrates that could eventually bolster already massive U.S. natural gas reserves. As Al Fin pointed out yesterday natural gas is priced to a barrel of oil equivalent at about $10-$11 [...]
Apr
9
Ford Makes a Case for Ethanol and Methanol Blends
April 9, 2012 | 6 Comments
A team of researchers from Ford Motor Company are asserting in a paper published in the journal Fuel that “substantial societal benefits” would arrive for consumers by using higher volume blends of ethanol to leverage the alcohol’s inherent high octane rating to produce ethanol-gasoline blends with higher octane numbers. Octane numbers measure in scale the [...]
Mar
28
US Consumers and Environmentalists Win One on Oil Shipping
March 28, 2012 | 5 Comments
It didn’t take long for the oil industry to go to Plan B to get the massive new supplies of Bakken Formation oil in North Dakota and the Canadian Oil Sands to the remaining refineries at the Gulf Coast. It may not overcome the closing of refineries on the US east and west coasts, but [...]
Mar
14
More Natural Gas For the Glut
March 14, 2012 | Leave a Comment
Soon America won’t be alone with a glut of natural gas. Statoil, the Norwegian oil company, made big oil industry news late last month announcing it had found huge volumes of natural gas off the coast of Tanzania thus confirming east Africa’s reputation as one of the energy world’s most promising new frontiers. The area [...]
Feb
23
A Better Compressed Natural Gas System For Cars and Trucks
February 23, 2012 | 4 Comments
3M and Chesapeake Energy Corporation have announced they’ve agreed to collaborate in designing, manufacturing and marketing a broad portfolio of compressed natural gas (CNG) tanks for use in all sectors of the U.S. transport market. CNG has often been suggested to be a good replacement for gasoline. It is; its simpler to get to proper [...]
Feb
22
A New Gulf of Mexico Oil Field Find May Be a Giant
February 22, 2012 | 8 Comments
The BP blowout reaction a couple years ago put a lid on oil and gas development in the Gulf of Mexico that has yet to be fully lifted. With oil over $100 today and the projections on prices looking scary for the economy and average Americans, a little good news is very welcome. A midsize [...]
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