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 [...]

Feb

24

Another Massive Natural Gas Resource Becomes Available

February 24, 2011 | 3 Comments

There is a huge reserve of natural gas already discovered, waiting for use and distributed worldwide.  The reserves are simply natural gas that is naturally formed with other gases, mostly CO2, in high enough proportion that the natural gas isn’t economically useful. How much natural gas is up for conjecture.  Contaminated gas reserves haven’t been [...]

Sep

20

Changing Natural Gas Into Liquid Fuels & Chemicals

September 20, 2010 | 7 Comments

Perhaps one of our times most prolific scientists, Angela Belcher at MIT, came up with a system that cheaply and efficiently turns methane into liquid chemicals and fuels.  Belcher then developed it further in a startup called Cambrios Technologies, which she cofounded. The system was then spun out into Siluria in 2008, when Cambrios focused [...]

Aug

11

Farming Natural Gas

August 11, 2010 | 7 Comments

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 | 5 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 [...]

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