All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Natural Resources

Clifford Krauss in Houston reported in the August 23-24 issue of the International Herald Tribune that U.S. natural gas production is rising faster than it has in decades. It reverses conventional thinking about the irreversible decline of domestic gas fields. New drilling technology allows commercial...

David Jolly in Paris reported in the August 23-24 issue of the International Herald Tribune that Europe, seeing American exploitation of shale gas, has now begun a similar search. The first chore is to determine how much gas could be available. Many of the same type of North American shale formations...

Minefinders Corp.’s problems at their Dolores gold and silver mine highlight again what is probably Mexico’s biggest economic obstacle: the ejido landownership structure.

The LNG terminal operators like Freeport LNG Development LNG have invested in their LNG import and regasification terminals to meet forecasted shortages of natural gas (NG) in the order of 10 billion cubic feet per day (bcfd) by 2010.  However, the recent significant play by shale gas and the low...

Drilling Editor Nina M. Rach reported in the August 18 issue of the Oil & Gas Journal that Shell Rocky Mountain Production Company is optimizing Pinedale field wells. Production will be increased and surface disturbances will be reduced. Shell will drill more than 90 wells this year. The 35 mile...

Despite trepidations over the lapsing of US federal incentives, the domestic photovoltaic market continues to consolidate to take advantage of better economy of scale.  Photovoltaic installations in the US now number over 10,000 a year, growth that will continue to increase once new federal incentives...

Jad Mouawad in New York reported in the August 19 issue of the International Herald Tribune that all seven of the major oil companies were producing less oil than before. Politics plays a part. The terms of foreign concessions in Asia and South America have become more onerous with more oil to the state...

Reliance on nuclear-produced electricity is a strategic decision reached decades ago. This decision stirred surprisingly little opposition domestically. The validity of the decision is upheld in tems of CO² credits.

John Westwood of Douglas-Westwood in Canterbury U.K. reported in the August 4 issue of the Oil & Gas Journal that Europe remains one of the largest offshore producing regions. But declining production and high costs have forced the oil majors to leave. Smaller operators now salvage what oil is left...

Sound Energy Solutions, subsidiary of Mitsubishi Corp. has diligently worked for the last ten years to bring LNG to Long Beach, having support from ConocoPhillips to take care of heavy hydrocarbons and take off NG for hydrogen production.  Long Beach and the California Coastal Commission rejected...