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 [...]

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 [...]

Sep

26

Low Cost Abundant US Natural Gas at Risk

September 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment

A lawsuit in Pennsylvania has put the state’s natural gas production at risk.  Thousands of oil and gas properties in the Marcellus Shale thought to have the ownership of the underlying oil and gas and mineral rights solidly set have been put to doubt. Gas production in Pennsylvania increased to about 2.8 billion cubic feet [...]

Sep

16

Better Methane Gas Hydrate Numbers

September 16, 2011 | Leave a Comment

The thinking is in many quarters that methane gas hydrates, often referred to the ice that burns, or more simply methane hydrates exists in quantities far over the combined oil natural gas and coal reserves.  Today’s estimate numbers reach 20 trillion tons.  It’s a huge number, and controversial.  So how could one more reliably size [...]

Aug

26

Update of Natural Gas in the Eastern US

August 26, 2011 | 3 Comments

The Marcellus Shale formation that extends across eight U.S. states has a new estimate out from the US Geological Survey (USGS).  The new estimate of the reserve was increased from 42 times to 72 times from the previous assessment done in 2002.  Nine years will change a perspective. Before looking into this, keep in mind [...]

May

6

Looking for the Deeper Oil And Gas

May 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment

Geoffrey Styles, Managing Director of GSW Strategy Group, and the writer of energyoutlook.blogspot.com has came upon more information about the effort to look even deeper for hydrocarbons like natural gas and oil. A leader in a still quiet, but well funded and ambitious project is Jesse Ausubel of Rockefeller University (Of fame from his theory [...]

Mar

14

Here Comes Even More Natural Gas

March 14, 2011 | 7 Comments

Sometimes you have to wonder, how did so much energy get packed away in the earth’s crust?  Even with tens of millions of years, moving continents, a series of biological eras, and uncountable tons of materials piled, laid out and compressed, the reservoir numbers coming in since horizontal drilling and reservoir fracturing grew out of [...]

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