GLG News by Natural Gas Experts (North America)

    Thermal coal into Europe continues to be above $100/tonne (metric ton) for 2008 as measured by the API 2 Index into Northern Europe.  It is up ~67% from prices for this same period quoted at the beginning of 2007.       The commentary calculates...

Dow Chemical is on the prowl.  And it has the confidence of a Tyrannosaurus Rex.  While sources cite Dow's ability to swallow up to 50-60 acquisitions, JVs or divestments, the quantity aspect is really not Dow's main goal.  While quality is more important, this time around,...

Listen to what Chakib Khelil says:  his words predict the actions at OPEC better than some weather forecasts (excluding AFC's prognostications of course)! Words from OPEC sources almost always stoke a reaction on the Markets worldwide.  For the past 5 years, I have "tracked" important...

This MarketWatch article is a better report because it does not beat around the bush.  The authors interviewed a professor who had some intelligent things to say.  First, when the dollar loses value, the demand for crude increases which naturally reduces oil supplies,...

First, I strongly do not agree with the article's assumption that oil at $100 is unsustainable.  One-hundred-dollar oil is just another round number, like $70, $80 and $90 -- all so-called "ceilings" of the past that were "incredulously" surpassed when the dollar devalued more, or violence increased...

When Archer Daniels Midland Co. (ADM) looks at itself in the mirror, it knows itself very well, and foremost, the management knows that its business has had and will continue to have ups and downs, based on commodities, politics, global weather, and a plethora of other risks, some of them not even...

It is challenging to attribute specific natural phenomena, such as Global Climate Change (better worded than 'Global Warming' in my opinion due to the cooling witnessed in many parts of the world) to long-term causes, but an increasingly longer list of attributable effects are indeed...

    Coal plants utilize high-calcium limestone as a reagent in flue gas desulphurization (FGD or “scrubbers”) to remove the sulfur from the coal rather than it going up the stack as air emissions. The usage of this limestone will increase as scrubbers are included on new coal plants...

    Many previously announced coal plants have been formally cancelled or delayed this year. This is the result of either regulatory rejections or uncertainty, cost increases because of materials and labor, or environmental (CO2 emissions) issues.     U.S. Department...

    There have been several published reports of coal plant cancellations due to lack of the perceived need by regulators, differences in cost recovery in rates to consumers, the belief surrounding CO2 emissions or other reasons, Cancellation of the coal plant projects does not...