GLG News by Nuclear Power Experts (North America)

Norway has always pioneered NG and oil exploration in the rough North Sea.  Now Norway recognizes depleted oil fields and geological structures below as safe locations fro CCS.

The significant development of unconventional shale gas is a real success story and needs to be exploited to the fullest to lead us to some independence of the OPEC cartel on crude import.  

The LNG terminal operators like Freeport LNG Development LNG have invested in their LNG import and regasification terminals to meet forecasted shortages of natural gas (NG) in the order of 10 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) by 2010.  However, the recent significant play by shale gas and the low...

Sound Energy Solutions, subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corp. has diligently worked for the last ten years to bring LNG to Long Beach, having support from ConocoPhillips to take care of heavy hydrocarbons and take off NG for hydrogen production.  Long Beach and the California Coastal Commission rejected...

US natural gas companies have developed the technology and private investment support to unlock 840 trillion cubic feet of natural gas ("NG") from the Barnett, Haynesville and Marcellus shale plays.  This translates to 25 billion cubic feet of NG for the next hundred years.

    Court’s decision vacating the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) potentially affects utilities or IPPs long the allowances as described in the section that follows.

    When air pollution retrofits are placed on a power plant, a regulated, investor-owned, utility financially benefits.  An unregulated, independent power producer (IPP) does not necessarily financially benefit.

    The Court’s July 11, 2008 decision vacating the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) caused the price of SO2 emissions allowances to decrease less than the cost of operating a scrubber to reduce the SO2 emissions.  The discussions that follow discuss this and the likelihood...

    As the article points out, natural gas-fired generation may be cheaper than coal-fired generation in certain parts of the nation.  The section below discusses some of the items that go into the decision to fuel switch from coal to natural gas.

The trend by corporations is to demonstrate in some form that they are a green company. Going green can have numerous definitions from a product that is eco-friendly to reducing a company's carbon footprint by use of alternative energy.