Apr

12

Raising the Energy Value of Natural Gas by 25%

April 12, 2013 | 2 Comments

The Department of Energy’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) has announced a system that converts natural gas using sunlight into the more energy-rich fuel called syngas.  The new system offers a 25% increase in available energy. Making the syngas uses concentrated solar power. Solar energy comes to a reflecting surface that concentrates the sun’s rays [...]

Apr

5

Ready to Make Natural Gas

April 5, 2013 | 4 Comments

Methanogenic bacteria have been found in coal beds here in the U.S. and companies are working to start natural gas production.  For now the natural gas prices are forcing adverse market conditions on the firms, but the chance that some liquefied natural gas for export may be allowed could well spark more action. San Diego [...]

Sep

27

The Reasons to Wonder About Natural Gas Prices

September 27, 2012 | 3 Comments

Asian demand for natural gas has risen sharply in recent years.  Prices in dollars per million BTUs, are about $13.50 in Argentina and $13.80 in Japan and South Korea, and $13.40 in China.  Even Argentina has a $13.50 price, but U.S. wholesale prices are about $2.50 to $3.00. The world price disparity raises a question [...]

Aug

31

A Natural Gas Discovery From a Medicine Research Opportunity

August 31, 2012 | 3 Comments

There is a lot of methane, the prime component of natural gas in the crust of the earth and on the surface.  Souring where it all comes from is a topic of considerable debate with several theories on how the molecule forms.  The theories range from simple to complex, some even suggest methane is seeping [...]

Aug

30

Are There Huge Natural Gas Reserves in the Antarctic?

August 30, 2012 | 2 Comments

A new study out of the University of California Santa Cruz demonstrates that old organic matter in sedimentary basins located beneath the Antarctic Ice Sheet may have been converted to methane by microorganisms living under oxygen-deprived conditions. The Antarctic Ice Sheets could be overlooked but important sources of methane according to a report in the [...]

Jun

18

Investor Disaster = Consumer Bonanza From Natural Gas

June 18, 2012 | 1 Comment

American oil and gas prospector Apache Corp stunned natural gas investors Thursday June 14, 2012 with a natural gas discovery announcement, the main point of which is, “ . . . . in terms of just resource, with the 1 well we drilled horizontal, we put 6 fracs on it. It’s going to go to [...]

May

9

Get Ready For Dual Fuel Vehicles

May 9, 2012 | 9 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

3

Huge Natural Gas From Methane Hydrates Process Developed

May 3, 2012 | 8 Comments

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 [...]

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