GLG News by Oil and Gas Pipeline Experts

A very interesting article, published on 12- 12-07 by K. Sanderson in Nature magazine reports on a study by a team of Canadian, Norwegian and English researchers headed by Dr. Larter of Calgary Univ. The study explored how naturally occurring bacteria deep down in the Earth break...

The UK Gas market is short of storage due to the tailing off of UK gas reserves. Most new gas storage projects are associated with existing major market players. Star Energy is one of the few credible independent storage players.

Glycerol will have an increasing value in the production chain of biofuels as increasing utilization of biodiesel in the EU and other countries whose main transport fuel is diesel and as ethanol production in the US shows the failure of the corn derived ethanol program and other feedstock has to...

The author indicates that oil prices above $50 per barrel will permit these plants to operate profitably. If that is the case and the developers can overcome the environmental issues facing these plants, this technology has merit and should be studied in greater depth from both a National Security stance...

Geopolitical and global economic pressures will drive oil pricing beyond $100 per barrel. It is not a matter of if, only a matter of time. Supply and storage are not that much of a factor in the current pricing mechanism and for whatever comfort consumer countries want to draw from data suggesting that...

WSJ’s article “Ethanol Water Shortage”  summarizes very well ethanol from corn shortcomings and why subsidizing it is not a solution to America’s transportation fuels. Ethanol from corn is probably the worst renewable fuel as its production has a negative energy balance, i.e. it requires more...

Liquefaction and pipelines in Alaska address the local desires to keep revenues and jobs in Alaska. Building a pipeline to somewhere in the south, like Valdez is very possible. ROW (Rights of Way, pipeline corridor) are already permitted and mostly available, and the access is available. Knocking...

The Elandsrand accident present an opportunity for a fundamental discussion on safety, not only in gold mining, but also in the mining industry in general and more broadly in any industrial environment. Coal mining accidents in China or in USA point to the need of improvements in safety best practices....

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...

Regardless of an energy crunch or issues with crude supplies, alternative fuels are a permanent part of the transportation fuels universe as well as heating and power generation. Along with all of the issues we are too painfully familiar with concerning the petroleum based transportation and power fuels,...