GLG News by Offshore Seismic Services Experts

Generating oil from Shale Oil has been done since WWII and there is no technical showstopper with harvesting this energy now.  It is just a matter of cost and enough political will to overcome the envirnmental objections. It is a huge resource with private companies prepared to take the risk...

The main two bad thing about foreign oil is that 1)some really unfriendly governments control fforeign oil and don't play by economic rules only, and 2) the US must send huge sums of money to these governments that we, as a nation, are either borrowing or selling off our assets to fund. 

Florida will accept offshore exploration for gas before it accepts oil exploration. Environmental issues remain an emotional barrier for politicians, but majors and independents will eventually succeed.

The issue of access to crucial transmission infrastructure is not limited to wind power. Much the same argument can be made about pipeline access for non-conventional natural gas developments in areas of the midwest or indeed for conventional forms of merchant power generation. Ask any merchant generator...

Venezuela is part of a larger trend of nations seeking greater control of their energy assets. This poses problems for major oil companies, but could create opportunities for well positioned service providers.

The use of onshore windpower has made remarkable strides in the US where the proper conditions exist, for example, in Texas where windy conditions are endemic and where the body politic supports initiatives of this type. In contrast, the major US effort for offshore widnpower, the Cape Wind project...

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...

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...