Aug
11
Farming Natural Gas
August 11, 2010 | 1 Comment
Luca Technologies harnesses natural processes to sustainably produce natural gas. The Golden, Colo. based company has developed a process to generate and then extract more natural gas from depleted coalbed methane wells by injecting water, microbes, and nutrients into the coal seams. The company is now pursuing permitting in Wyoming’s Powder River Basin to expand [...]
Feb
8
Methane Is the Future
February 8, 2010 | 3 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 [...]
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 [...]
Nov
24
A Method to Get Natural Gas to Transportable Methanol
November 24, 2009 | 1 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 [...]
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 [...]
Jul
29
Getting Natural Gas Faster
July 29, 2009 | 3 Comments
Sometimes you have to love the big corporation, not often, but sometimes there are breakthroughs. ExxonMobil’s Randy Tolman, the company’s project coordinator for the Piceance Basin has invented a new method of fracturing, or “fracing,” the underground layers of rock and sand to unlock natural gas. ExxonMobil aims to export the new process to the [...]
Jun
16
Can Government Make a Disaster From Nothing at All?
June 16, 2009 | 2 Comments
IHS Global Insight of Massachusetts under a contract from the American Petroleum Institute has rolled out its report about the consequences of a Federal takeover of the regulations from states overseeing the oil and gas well finishing process called “hydraulic fracturing.” Before we start, hydraulic fracturing is packing water, some solvents, and strong sand and [...]
Jun
1
Lots More Natural Gas – A Lot More
June 1, 2009 | 3 Comments
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), U.S. Minerals Management Service (MMS) and a group of U.S. and international energy industry companies under the management of Chevron have completed the first ever drilling project with the goal to collect geologic data on gas-hydrate-bearing sand reservoirs in the Gulf of Mexico. Results, [...]
