All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Natural Resources

Facts provide insight into how much corn must be produced in the long run. Knowing the facts provides a better understanding of how many acres, fertilizer demand and seed technology is required.

IP trails Domtar in UFS market share 25% to 35%.  Whereas Domtar has older mills at Kingsport, Johnsonburg and Rothschild, IP has newer, lower cost mills at Courtland and Selma, Alabama and Eastover, SC.   IP has now shut it's higher cost machine.....will Domtar follow by shutting down...

While defining solutions to carbon free electricity, the author outlines the criteria which according to him are eminently satisfied by Concentrated Solar Power i.e. affordable, non exhaustible, available to every country developed or underdeveloped, does not take much fresh water to produce...

OAO Gazprom, Qatar Liquefied Gas Company and National Iraniann Oil company plan a joint venture for South Pars field. Each to own 30% of the project with CNPC or Korean Kogas as a 10% trading partner. South Pars gas will travel to Ras Laffan by pipeline under the Persian Gulf where it will be processed...

Australia has taken coal serious by passing the Australian Offshore Petroleum Amendment Bill, regulating carbon dioxide capture and storage (CCS).  Australian Production & Exploration Association (APPEA) has fought for this bill in order to protect the property rights of existing petroleum...

If I were Exxon, I would love to have the New York Times write such a wonderful article praising their business, efficiency and success, it unfortunately does not change the fact that the earth is running out of fossil fuels at an alarming rate.  Exxon is a great business and helped by speculators...

     The recent announcement that FCX is significantly reducing molybdenum production is a rapid response to the recent price declines in Mo. This indicates that things are very different in the mining world than in past cycles. Historically companies...

Arie Vliegenthart reported in the November 10 issue of the Oil & Gas Journal that swelling elastomers could succeed cement in the completion of oil and gas wells. Cement is the long-standing and traditional way of sealing the casing against the wall of the drilled hole. But it is expensive, time-consuming...

Oil & Gas Journal reports that Gazprom plans to form a joint venture with Qatar Liquefied Gas Co.,Ltd. and the National Iranian Oil Co. for gas production in the Iranian South Paris field and liquefy the gas in Qatar at the Las Raffan site.  The gas would be piped from Iran across the Persian...

Jad Mouawad reported in the November 16 issue of the New York Times that the oil industry has profited from six years of rising crude prices. Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon Mobil (XOM) said that their competitive advantage is greater in a low oil price environment. Still, XOM faces several political dangers...