Natural gas demand growth may decline
The demand growth for natural gas in the future may decline. For accessing full news, click here
Archive for July, 2008
China National considering acquisition of Chesapeake’s assets
China National Petroleum is planning to acquire Chesapeake Energy’s shale gas assets. For full story, click here
Mooncor signs JV for shale gas exploration
Mooncor has signed a JV with with Ontario based Greentree gas and oil ltd. to explore share gas in a selected portion of Greentree’s existing land base in South Western Ontario. For full story, click here
GAIL and BPCL sign MOU
India’s state run GAIL and refiner Bharat Petroleum have signed MOU to cooperate in the distribution and transmission of natural gas. For full news, click here
Gas Natural eyeing control of Union Fenosa
Barcelona based Gas Natural reported in a regulatory filing that it was trying to buy a controlling stake Madrid based Union Fenosa. This is the company’s third attempt to acquire another Spanish energy company. For full story, click here
Virgin Islands plans gas pipeline to Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands is planning to replace diesel-generated power with natural gas brought from Puerto Rico, by building a pipeline. Chief of the U.S. Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority, was quoted as saying: Engineers are looking to recalibrate oil-dependent generators to burn cheaper natural gas instead. For full news, click on this link
Huge natural gas reserves estimated in Arctic
Government scientist estimate that a third of the world’s undiscovered natural gas lies below an area in the north of the Arctic Circle. For full story, click here
South Parse: July 23
By Duncan Sutherland- Exclusive to Gas Investing News Contracts for August delivery of natural gas slid before the weekend as Tropical Storm Dolly appeared to be dissipating. However, the storm intensified into a hurricane early in the week, spurring precautionary shutdowns of some oil and gas infrastructure in the Gulf of Mexico. Reuters is reporting [...]
Welcome to South Parse
By Duncan Sutherland – Exclusive to Heavy Oil Investing News Welcome to the first edition of the Parse! This space hopes to provide a weekly digest of news, trends, and quirks in the global natural gas sector. It is fitting that this week saw major news concerning the gas field from which this column takes [...]
Introduction to Hydrocarbon Investing
Hydrocarbons are the sine qua non of modern life. A short thought experiment illustrates the point rather well. Think of how your day would go if you couldn’t use the internal combustion engine, plastic, most electricity, the products of commercial agriculture or anything that has traveled by ship. If you pay even tangential attention to [...]
