GLG News by Alternative Energy Experts (North America)

The high costs for jet fuel are a direct result of international oil supply and demand dynamics. To reduce jet fuel costs, overall oil demand needs to be reduced. As the world's largest consumer of oil, America is in the best position to reduce demand and lower world oil prices. What...

In the 1970s the US Congress forced the Aramco partners (SOCONY, SOCAL, Exxon and Texaco) to divulge the reserve base they had in Saudi Arabia.  In the 1990s, Matt Simmons reviewed all the AAPG and SPE papers by Aramco engineers about the problems with the reservoir decline.  The Aramco management...

Big Oil (TOT, BP, RDS, XOM, COP, CVX) control very little of the world's oil and gas reserves. National Oil and Gas Companies (NOC) control over 85% of the oil and gas in the ground.  These are Saudi Aramco, NNPC, NIOC, Pemex, PDVSA, Petronas, LNOC, Sonotrach, etc. Big Oil does not have technology...

There is still a tremendous bias to find "the" answer to the challenge of providing cleanly, affordable and secure energy that is also profitable to investors.  Our centralized, command-and-control way of extracting and delivering non-renewable energy blinds us to the fact that even there, different...

The article very dramatically portrays the plight of the wood products industry and its workers in British Columbia and raises the question: " When will homebuilding pick up to the point where all the shut sawmills will be able to restart? But, more importantly, will all these shut mills still be able...

As the LA Times article describes, solar thermal electric generation schemes have actually been technically successful for some years and the 354 MW of parabolic trough systems built in the late 1980s are still running very well.  What's needed now for these technologies, collectively known as...

The disagreement of the Russian shareholders Vekselberg, Fridman and Blavatnik with BP over the management and board structure of TNK-BP has reached its boiling point.  The Russian partners demanded the resignation of Robert Dudley CEO of TNK-BP(executive of BP) and equal board representation....

A call for a revolution in how we use energy is overdue.  But the "real" revolution will come when we learn as a society how to harvest it, not mine it.  That means going with renewables and efficiency, not traditional nuclear and fossil fuel systems that are just more of the same, and more...

The reasons why Big Oil does not invest significantly (say, 10% or more of their revenues) in solar and wind power is not conspiratorial.  It is more in the cultural makeup of an organization that is used to doing business largely one way (selling a consumable item) versus one that lasts a long...

The annual US Department of Energy report on wind power spells out details on the American achievement of 5,329 megawatts (MW) of capacity in 2007, the largest increase of any one country, and placing the US ahead of Spain and behind Germany in the Number 2 slot.  The report, issued by Lawrence...