Monthly Archives: January 2009

New drilling technology makes the production of natural gas less expense. The same technology opens up new shale reserves that could never have produced with old technology. Horizontal Drilling (HD) and sister technology Multi-Stage Fracing (MSF) are lowering production costs, … Continue reading →

Growers in Florida are expecting to get many times the usual yield per acre from their Jatropha plantation. "That’s why brothers Paul and Mark Dalton chose to name their Florida jatropha company My Dream Fuel", "This is a superior biodiesel," … Continue reading →

Just when huge reserves of natural gas are being discovered in North America another new method of producing oil from the oil sands has started production in Alberta. And it does not rely on natural gas. T. Boone Pickens has … Continue reading →

The liquefaction of natural gas for export is completely different from the gasification of LNG after import.  Kitimat in British Columbia was selected for IMPORT of natural gas. A entirely different plant had to be designed when the plan was … Continue reading →

Microbes that feed on coal slowly produce natural gas. Using the right nutrients the microbes can be encouraged to speed up the process. Luca Technologies, a startup based in Golden, CO, has raised $76 million to scale up a process … Continue reading →