GLG News by Council Members Knowledgeable about Gas to Liquid Technology

Europeans have finally recognized you can not just attack one single variable and achieve freedom fro global warming.  For example, legislating clean air - no particulates - increases sunlight penetration, resulting in increased surface temperatures.  Humans do not understand how earth compensates...

Algeria is the fourth largest natural gas (NG) exporter being as LNG and/or by pipeline to Spain and Sardinia.  Since the LNG developments in the seventies for export to the US East Coast and UK, Algeria's oil & gas company Sonatrach worked with long term contracts.  Trying to align NG...

The state run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA. (Petrobras) appears to be close to a second offshore oil strike containing as much as 33 billion barrels in oil equivalent. The discovery is in the "presalt area" at ocean depth of more than 6,500 feet and beneath additional 9,800 feet of sand and rock. There...

The Alberta government had started to discourage drilling, especially for natural gas with their last year's published "New Royalty Framework". Now, they have realized the "unintended consequences" and are changing the royalty and tax structure to encourage deep exploratory wells for oil and deep and...

The government of President Umaru Yar'Adus is tightning the screws on Shell.  Funds are withheld from the production-sharing agreement up to $1 billion and the government does not pay it's part for reduction of natural gas flaring.  The resulting unrest of local communities to pollution from...

    The BNSF and other railroads charge in new coal transportation tariffs and contracts a fuel surcharge to recover the cost of fuel.  Other freight moves also come under fuel surcharges.  The commentary that follows discusses by the numbers the BNSF’s fuel surcharge on...

Nippon Oil is closing their small and low complexity Toyama refinery due to lack of process units to convert heavier crudes and high costs in a market with overcapacity.  

    The EPA is currently being challenged in the courts by both the states and industry over various aspects of the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR).  The outcome of the case could provide an opportunity for those trading SO2 allowances.

    SO2 allowances are traded daily in the broker and private party markets.  The value of these credits are down, affecting both the cost to generate electricity on coal and the realized sales price received by coal suppliers.

    The Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) requires a further reduction in NOx from coal-fired power plants starting in 2009.  This reduction in NOx will add to the dispatch cost from coal-fired generation.