All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Natural Resources

The Oil Voice Newsletter reported October 17 on an article by Neil King Jr. & Spencer Swartz (Dow Jones Newswires) regarding the pressure of falling crude oil prices on the budgets of some oil-producing countries. Iran and Venezuela are particularly concerned because oil revenues keep their strained...

The article looks at the prices of oil in light of the recent collapse from $147 to under $70.

The editors of the Oil & Gas Journal reported on line on October 14 that production from Beaver field in British Columbia may be extended by a new pay zone. On a three day test, Questerre and Transeuro’s A-5 well flowed 10 million cubic feet/day of dry gas at 3,000 psi tubing head pressure. The...

Major implications are in the safety of the contracts signed with the Kurdistan Regional Government and requirement of more funding in the absence of oil exports.

While today’s lower fuel prices is immediate good news for American households and the economy, automakers and consumers must commit to fuel efficient vehicles long-term to effect change.  Short-term, consumers have reduced their driving and their appetites for larger, less fuel efficient automobiles...

The New York Times on October 15 noted the importance of the Marcellus shale in Appalachia as a source of shale gas. To make these deep natural gas wells commercial requires horizontal drilling and multiple fracturing of the pay zone. Fracturing entails high pressure injection of large volumes of water...

The use of solar power should be activated within the city of Los Angeles but at what price?  Brian D’Arcy business manager of IBEW Local 18 has negotiated a contract to help make DWP the highest salaried city utility agency in the United States.  This has caused significant rate increases...

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...