All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Natural Resources

If a smart Texas teenager can assemble an electric car with a 40 mile range for under $10,000 cannot a larger corporation build a car with the same performance for use by High School and College students to go back and among school, home, and the job they'll need to pay for it? Why not build these just...

Concentrating photovoltaics (CPV) are not quiet ready for primetime on commercial rooftops. (a) Commercial roof tops are highly dependent on financing via power purchase agreements (PPA). (b) Concentrating photovoltaics are an unproven technology in terms of performance, reliability, price and O&M...

Wheat and Oil Prices are demand driven and over the years there has been an increasing trend in the prices of these both. World authorities need to pay special attention in order to bring down wheat prices. US commodity exchanges have seen extreme volatility in the past week, with speculation on...

Box plants were formerly strategically located near customers which required custom graphics, new/novel shapes and sizes and just-in-time service.  These smaller plants were nimble and placed great emphasis on customer service.  Now, however, economies of scale and new technology have caused...

EU realizes in the face of the global banking crisis and their success in intervention that present carbon-reduction targets may now not be affordable. 

Oil Diplomacy Editor Eric Watkins reported in the October 13 issue of the Oil & Gas Journal that Indonesia’s declining oil production is said to be the result of political uncertainty. The nation recently withdrew from OPEC. When the Suharto government fell in 1998, confusion pevailed in the state-run...

The Oilvoice Newsletter of October 13 reported on a credit update published by FX Energy. The company has taken steps to improve its liquidity by drawing $14 million from its Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS) Senior Credit Facility. This brings the company’s cash position up to $24 million and will be used...

High levels of drilling activity will keep demand for ROV's high. Drop in oil price is unlikely to effect long term demand

The use of algae oil as a feedstock for biodiesel, in the future, may be one component of a multifaceted strategy to reduce our dependence on fossil fuel.  But its use will be contingent upon the economic viability of the overall process to produce the oil, transesterify to a biodiesel meeting...

In the October 6 issue of the Oil & Gas Journal, Drilling Editor Nina M. Rach reported on the Brazilian “presalt” play in the Santos basin. Petrobras, Chevron and Royal Dutch Shell shared their experiences in Rio de Janeiro in September. From 2003 to 2006, Petrobras discovered five giant fields...