GLG News by Alternative Energy Experts (North America)

According to today's Oil & Gas Journal news, Russian President Dmitry Medvedev received from the Russian Security Council approval for Russia's state policy in the Arctic and a plan for implementation.  Russia considers the Arctic region as strategic resource base to guarantee Russia's energy...

Russian officials had boasted in spring that Gazprom would become the largest publicly traded energy company, surpassing ExxonMobil. However, Gazprom's value is down 58% since May 2008 and debt insurance now rose 1% in a single day, costing  Gazprom additionally about $440 million.

Human beings boast about having kept sea ice records for just 30 years.  Then we have the audacity to say there is an “alarming trend” of arctic sea ice shrinkage.  The most frightening aspect is that this ‘theory’ that human activity is causing the majority of sea ice shrinkage...

Biomass is now very expensive, has a low energy density, and biomass for energy would compete for food.

Norway has always pioneered NG and oil exploration in the rough North Sea.  Now Norway recognizes depleted oil fields and geological structures below as safe locations fro CCS.

The significant development of unconventional shale gas is a real success story and needs to be exploited to the fullest to lead us to some independence of the OPEC cartel on crude import.  

The LNG terminal operators like Freeport LNG Development LNG have invested in their LNG import and regasification terminals to meet forecasted shortages of natural gas (NG) in the order of 10 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) by 2010.  However, the recent significant play by shale gas and the low...

Despite trepidations over the lapsing of US federal incentives, the domestic photovoltaic market continues to consolidate to take advantage of better economy of scale.  Photovoltaic installations in the US now number over 10,000 a year, growth that will continue to increase once new federal incentives...

Sound Energy Solutions, subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corp. has diligently worked for the last ten years to bring LNG to Long Beach, having support from ConocoPhillips to take care of heavy hydrocarbons and take off NG for hydrogen production.  Long Beach and the California Coastal Commission rejected...

US natural gas companies have developed the technology and private investment support to unlock 840 trillion cubic feet of natural gas ("NG") from the Barnett, Haynesville and Marcellus shale plays.  This translates to 25 billion cubic feet of NG for the next hundred years.