Fracturing the Bakken Triples Oil Reserves
Jun 7 Energy Talks, Sponge
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With the BP gulf floor oil leak making the news – all bad even if they get it stopped, some good news is worthwhile. Especially when the Obama tribe has frozen the major U.S. controlled North American resources of oil development for political appeasement to ‘do something.” Meanwhile the Bakken formation in the north of the U.S. and southern Canada is growing production... more |
Tags: crude oil, oil prices
Algae Straight to Crude Oil
May 4 Energy Talks, Sponge
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University of Michigan professors are heating and squishing algae in a pressure-cooker that fast-forwards the crude oil making process from millennia to just minutes. It doesn’t have to be algae it could be any wet biomass. Phillip Savage, an Arthur F. Thurnau Professor in the U-M Department of Chemical Engineering is principal investigator on the $2-million National Science... more |
Tags: algae, biooil from algae, crude oil, hydrothermal pressurized bio oil device, xinca.com
Don’t Mess With Texas Oil & Gas
Apr 26 Energy Talks, Sponge
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The past week saw a flurry of reports and commentary about the Texas petroleum formation called Eagle Ford. Eagle Ford is a huge new oil and gas discovery, well, maybe not ‘new’ as much as economically profitable with the technology of horizontal drilling and hydraulic fracturing. With no particular surprise the technology has migrated from gas production areas to oil and... more |
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Where Policy Starts for Right Now
Mar 9 Energy Talks
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Some commentary is so well organized and on point it deserves a wide hearing. At this blog we tend to look down the road at what might be coming, but. We have to get down the road in the meantime. John C. Felmy of the API has thought this through and managed to compress the main concepts with language that anyone can use to good effect. More surprising is the text that follows... more |
