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  • Gas boom creates chemical bond between Gulf Coast, foreign firms

    04/07/2014 5:26:04 AM PDT · by thackney · 4 replies
    Fuel Fix ^ | April 6, 2014 | Emily Pickrell
    Foreign companies are making big bets on the Gulf Coast petrochemical corridor, where capital investment is surging because of cheap U.S. natural gas, other lower costs and the existing industry infrastructure. Domestic natural gas and its byproducts including ethane — a building block petrochemical companies use to make plastics and other materials — are low-priced relative to most of the world because of the surge in oil and gas production from U.S. shale plays. The bargain-rate raw material has caused a stampede of recent international investment along the Gulf Coast in Louisiana and Texas, the center of the U.S. petrochemical...
  • Methane hydrate joins shale gas and deep sea gas

    03/20/2013 5:04:22 PM PDT · by Fractal Trader · 17 replies
    Times of London via www.mattridley.co.uk ^ | 16 March 2013 | Matt Ridley
    The gas age is good news Published on Saturday, March 16, 2013, updated Saturday, March 16, 2013 Methane hydrate joins shale gas and deep sea gas I have the following article in the Times on 15 March:   Move over shale gas, here comes methane hydrate. (Perhaps.) On Tuesday the Japanese government’s drilling ship Chikyu started flaring off gas from a hole drilled into a solid deposit of methane and ice, 300 metres beneath the seabed under 1000 metres of water, 30 miles off the Japanese coast.   The real significance of this gas flare probably lies decades in...