All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Natural Resources

Suzlon of India, the number five wind turbine manufacturer has run into serious technical troubles: a 140 foot long turbine blade just now broke of a wind tower in Illinois, while Suzlon is in the process to replace 1,251 turbine blades due to blade cracks in their US wind turbine fleet. ...

Demand up prices up Demand down prices down Prices up + demand down = recession Recession = demand down Demand down = Prices down

Senior Staff Writer Paula Dittrick reported in the October 20 issue of the Oil & Gas Journal that oil shale deposits in the U.S. could be the most practical option to add large volumes of proved reserves. It may take 10-15 years for research scientists to determine if a development investment would...

Putin sent a twelve member delegation to a premature meeting in Alaska, including  Gazprom's chief executive Aleksei Miller and deputy director Aleksandr Golubyev, like Putin a veteran of the KGB. The delegation did not meet with Governor Sarah Palin but with Tom Ivan, the commissioner of the Department...

Exxon is moving systematically ahead with their PNG LNG project to be located near Port Moresby.  The FEED (Front End Engineering) has been completed and Exxon has shortlisted Bechtel and Chiyoda for bid on the EPC contract.  Construction is to start in 2010, and plant start-up is expected...

1. There are no "mentors" to help in the transition. 2. Few major oil companies stress knowledge of regional trends and how they relate to oil and gas accumulations. 3.  Communication skills for new-hires is poor.

Andrew E. Kramer in Moscow reported in the October 23 issue of the International Herald Tribune that OPEC’s Secretary General Abdullah al-Badri has held meetings with President Dmitri Medvedev to discuss possible cooperation in crude oil production cuts. On Russian television, Medvedev told al-Badri...

Russia has several issues of significance that keep them from becoming a major participant in OPEC price support efforts. This article does not take into account these macor-economic and geopolitical issues.

The most profitable pulp mills are in the low cost countries of Brazil, Chile and Indonesia.  These mills have low labor and low wood costs but they have an even more important advantage:   they are modern mills employing the latest technology having a very low maintenance liability...

On October 17, the Oilvoice Newsletter reported a speech by Andy Inglis, Chief Executive of BP Exploration & Production at Rice University in Houston, where BP has established partnership arrangement. Inglis did not refer to retiring baby boomers. Changing the guard means plugging the capability...