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Let’s get a few potential objections out of the way up front: Yes, natural gas is cleaner than coal. Yes, strategies like hydrofracturing have unlocked large new sources of natural gas we previously weren’t able to tap into. Yes, new developments of natural gas resources in the US
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The world might be on the brink of a “golden age of gas,” as the International Energy Agency (IEA) puts it, but there’s one more reason to question how easily that energy wealth can be tapped: an increased risk of earthquakes. That risk is what prompted the Ohio Department
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In the US and elsewhere, a lot of news coverage lately has focused on the vast new supplies of natural gas that can be unlocked from unconventional sources like shale and coalbeds. “Are we entering a golden age of gas?” a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) asked last
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Could the natural gas “boom” end up being the Darth Vader to Lando Calrissian … as in, “This deal is getting worse all the time”? It seems as though the uncertainties surrounding the safety, sustainability and wisdom of extracting as much natural gas as we can from every imaginable formation keep
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In his most recent State of the Union address, President Barack Obama laid out an all-energy-sources-go strategy for boosting the country’s energy security. That strategy, he added, was bolstered by the fact that, “We have a supply of natural gas that can last America nearly 100 years.” Earlier that
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We mentioned in an earlier post that the size of the global gas-flaring problem is massive – 150 billion cubic meters per year of flared gas is roughly equivalent to gas use in all US residences for a year (Source: GE report). If you don’t know what gas flaring is
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How do you get large amounts of stable power to regions facing an energy crunch fast? Bolivia has found an answer in mobile power plants. Two GE aeroderivative gas power plants are on their way to the energy-hungry cities of Carrasco and Kenko, where they will be quickly deployed to
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Gas-fired power continues to expand as the technology for getting energy from natural gas keeps improving and growing “cleaner.” One of the latest projects to enter the pipeline in the US is Competitive Power Ventures’ (CPV) Sentinel power plant, a $900 million project whose backers have just closed the financing
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While the world has 60 years’ worth of recoverable natural gas resources, it doesn’t tap that energy source as much as it could, largely because methane requires either costly pipelines to transport as a gas or uneconomical processing to convert it to a more easily transported liquid fuel. Researchers
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Following on from slapping down Shell over a newspaper advert about sustainability claims the advertising watchdog has now banned a TV ad for ExxonMobil over claims that natural is “one of the world’s cleanest fuels”. Four eagle-eyed viewers, who understood that the use and production of liquefied natural gas
