GLG News by Nuclear Power Experts (North America)

    The Pacific Northwest has a tremendous amount of installed hydroelectric capacity.  The first and second quarter earnings of the investor owned utilities in the Pacific Northwest very greatly with hydroelectric conditions.  Preliminary reports are robust for the snowpack...

    Van Eck’s Market Vectors Coal ETF (KOL) is designed to track the coal markets through the recently released Stowe Coal Index.  The index is comprised of 60 companies around the world in the coal industry.       Comments that follow discuss the...

According to the Australian article, Gazprom is in talks with Nigeria to develop their gas reserves in competition to the Western IOCs. The large natural gas reserves puts Nigeria in about the seventh position in the world.

The Wall Street Journal review of January 4, 2008 points out that - while rising demands for oil & gas in China and India and other geopolitical factors are viewed by many experts as the cause of the rise of the oil price to about $100/bbl - the decline of the dollar has been overlooked by many...

United Technologies Corp.'s Hamilton Sundstrand unit has performed over 48 years aerospace contracts and science R&D  to help change the way electric power is generated from solar heat.  The key is heat storage from molten salt, allowing the solar plant to run as a base load plant...

ConocoPhillips responded to an RFQ from the State of Alaska with a pipeline proposal from Alaska to Chicago with an estimated budget of close to $40 billion. The proposal was not completely responsive to the RFP, but did not have any competitors.

The German Spiegel article points out the inadequate gas supply for power production -electricity- to the Russian population in the mayor cities, and of course, more pronounced in remote areas.  Today a supporting article  was also published by the International Herald Tribune, entitled " The...

I am a CEO in the automation business and previously in the Aerospace segment. I have followed Rockwell since it was based in Pittsburgh and know all the transformation that it has gone through ..I believe that since the acquisition off Allen Bradley and the divestiture of the Defense business to Boeing,...

Hunt Oil Company under the leadership of Ray Hunt is a privately oil and gas investment and exploration company that takes calculated and bold risks where the mayor oil companies have failed and/or stay away due to rough geopolitical and local issues.  Now Ray Hunt has revived a natural gas / LNG...

A "new wave" of nuclear power reactors has arrived.  Submittal of license applications by five major Utility companies and the anticipated submittal of 14-15 more will jump start the next round of nuclear power in the US.  Coupled with the worldwide growth of the industry, the impact on the...