GLG News by Gasoline Experts

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...

Refiners without VGO and residuum conversion capacity are going to face a difficult future. Gasoline and diesel sulfur specifications have been reduced in many parts of the world and will continue to be more restrictive. Bunker fuel will also have lower sulfur specifications in the future forcing refiners...

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...

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.  

For a number of very good reasons, the author posits that producing ethanol from sugar makes much more sense that making ethanol out of corn. Few can argue that converting sugar to ethanol is more efficient than converting starch to sugar and then to ethanol. However, I think that part of the story...

Mexico needs to attract expertise of the international oil companies to reverse the decreasing crude production of the country.  One third of the Mexican government's budget has to be provided by oil, PEMEX.  Of course, the Mexican constitution does not allow profit sharing in oil production...

ENI, the Italian Oil & Gas Company needs Gazprom's help to move natural gas (NG) by pipeline from Libya to Italy.  Of course, Gazprom will control this new avenue of NG to Southern Europe.