GLG News by Council Members Knowledgeable about Gas to Liquid Technology

DOE report discusses feasibility of present wind power generation of 16.8 gigawatts (GW) to 300 GW by 2030, the same amount nuclear power would generate. 

The WSJ article of May 15, 2008 raises a red flag for steel, desperately needed for all oil & gas exploration and downstream projects as well as for shipbuilding and power projects.  As a matter of fact steel producers can only guarantee firm steel prices for two weeks per Trinity Products...

    All of the various regulations being discussed in the U.S. Congress to slow, stabilize, and then reduce CO2 emissions nationally include some type of cap and trade system.  Each of these programs have a portion of the CO2 emissions allowances being allocated for free to...

    The biggest driver for orders of coal railcars will be the new coal plants coming on line the next few years.  The commentary section below discusses the number of new coal plants presented by FreightCar America on its Q1 2008 conference call versus an updated analysis by...

Recent hikes in coal prices in international market have caused significant worries among people. They believe that coal will follow oil and become another very expensive commodity. Such worry is unnecessary.

StatoilHydro ("Statoil") is sequestering CO2 to reduce greenhouse effects from their LNG liquefaction plant at Snohvit.  This is a large scale commercial CCS project of interest to all CO2 sequestration planners. 

For the Western Australian Browse floating LNG (FLNG) project Shell is evaluating CO2 capture and geo-sequestration (CCG).  Other parties call it CCS (Carbon Capture and Sequestration).   

The State of Alaska is disappointed in the slow progress of Exxon's development of the Point Thomson natural gas and oil field.  A law suit is simmering about revoking the license for Exxon and partners Chevron, BP and ConocoPhillips. There has to be a solution.

The Khurais field has been studied by Aramco for some time.  2.8 million three-dimensional images have been taken to understand a water flood of the field to pressurize the oil in the tight geological formation.  2.4  million barrels of seawater have to be injected to the low pressure...

GTL, CTL FINDING ROLES IN GLOBAL ENERGY SUPPY Iraj I. Rahmin, Oil & Gas Journal, March 24 2008, p. 22 The article gives a good overview of the status of Gas to Liquids (GTL) and Coal to Liquids (CTL). The field is very fluid with new proposals for projects coming to light all of the time. In this...