All GLG News Analyses Filed Under: Natural Resources

Lloyd’s List published on November 6, a report by Keith Wallis in Dalian, China and Mike Grinter in Hong Kong detailing the existing surplus of liquefied natural gas (LNG) carriers. Of 300 hundred existing LNG carriers now in the worldwide fleet, only 240 are required. Making matters worse will be the...

Jan Mouawad in New York reported in the November 7 issue of the International Herald Tribune that the International Energy Agency warned that the world’s energy system would require large investments. Growing demand and global warming were urgent issues. Two forces strain the system. Growing energy...

Rigzone Newsletter reported on November 7 that Baker Hughes INTEQ Division had introduced a new high speed telemetric service. The technology can be applied to mud pulse or wired pipe operations. The service, trade named aXcelerate, will be a game changer according to Paul Butero, president of INTEQ....

    Growing a few species "supercrops" as an improvement the wider diversity of current species opens up a worse scenario of one species of bacteria, weeds, insect, mold, fungus, etc being able to lay waste to vast regions of land that grow this crop and the rapid transport of eggs, seeds,...

    China's exporters are now receiving subsidies and VAT rebates again, this may stabilize price fluctuations.  Also, raw material/fossil producers have begun cutting back on production in an attempt to stabilize prices. Additionally, the credit crunch makes credit harder to come...

World poverty and population is increasing at steady rate and there is a strong need to devolop (breed) crops in a way to get maximum benefits from them. Every year a lot of people especially in underdeveloped countries die because of malnutrition. Over the years a lot of crops have been fortified to...

Solar will never be a major solution to US Energy Policy. Solar has the potential to provide a reasonable amount of energy but not enough to provide large quantities of base load power.  However solar effectiveness is limited presently by the cost of construction, manufacturing and by...

There is also possibility to manufacture CNG of Distillery effluent and India has been doing. This is another CDM template.

The North American civil rights movement has assured native Americans of their property rights and their sovereignty over the natural resources on their lands. American environmentalism has at the same time made sure that every conceivable roadblock is put in place to prevent the development of...

The Rig Zone Newsletter reported November 5 on the Pioneer Natural Resources results for the third quarter. The company lost $0.03/share including noncash charges of $112 million. Excluding these, earnings were $0.91/share. The quarter was impacted by the loss of 3,000 bbl/day related to Hurricanes...