GLG News by Natural Gas Experts (North America)

WSJ readers, have no fear. AEP, NRGEnergy and the rest are quite serious about CCS.  Carbon capture and storage will be proven safe and cost effective. It will implemented on a vast scale and transform how and where we build power plants (…Texas 1, New England 0). Hot tip : buy pore space and...

A quick look at the location of the ethanol plants will reveal that most are located in corn producing regions. That isn't particularly surprising. However, within those regions the majority of the ethanol plants are located as far from the river systems as possible. The reason for this is that corn...

ADM has been the one of the sources behind the US Government offering financial support to the Ethanol industry. They worked for many years to subsidies to the manufacturers of ethanol products. This was consistent with their overall market strategy to sell commodities. What the industry is finding...

The problem is basic and not addressed by Energy Bill. The USA is the only Western Country without an energy policy. The USA is a Energy Bill generator that is piece meal and does not attack the core issues. The problem is simple , the solutions difficult. The proposed Bill as with all Energy Bills...

    The Surface Transportation Board (STB) is asking for comments on its new definition of a “contract”. This could trigger a benefit to the railroads, such as Union Pacific, BNSF, Norfolk Southern, and CSX).

    The Dakota Minnesota & Eastern (DM&E) was turned down for its application with the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) for approximately $2.3 billion in Government-backed loan guarantees through the Railroad Rehabilitation & Improvement Financing (RRIF) out of...

    The Energy Information Agency (EIA) has been overstating the coal production cuts in the Central Appalachian region.. Those that have been utilizing the EIA numbers for modeling coal producer sales from the Central Appalachian region or for estimating coal inventories at utilities...

    Massey had a one-two punch of news. The first, which is the linked resignation letter, was the abrupt departure of two Board Members from Third Point Capital. The second was the Federal District Court of Southern West Virginia’s ruling on June 13, 2007 rejecting the practice...

The analysis does a fine job of describing the good points of wind power. That's the "good" in the title. The "bad" is that just adding transmission capacity will not solve the real problem with wind which is that it is an opportunistic supply. In order to utilize it, every kilowatthour needs to...

This article describes BP's recently announced project to install facilities for production of viscous oil with sand.  It has some implications for the future progress of oil sands development, as well.  This project may be among the list of future types of activities for the major oil companies...