Global Market Commentary, Analysis and Investments
Australia is on its way to becoming to natural gas what the Middle East is to oil. This could become Australia’s biggest resource boom yet.
Asia is the fastest growing market for liquid natural gas (LNG). Currently, Japan is the largest buyer. Japan and South Korea together make up 53% of current global regasification capacity. (That is, the ability to import LNG and turn it back into a gas for consumer and industrial use.) But demand elsewhere in Asia is catching up:
[Read more...]Until just three years ago, the Marcellus was an obscure name for an obscure rock formation in the backwaters of geological research. Not anymore…
The tipping point came when Penn State professor Terry Engelder demonstrated that the Marcellus holds as much as 500 trillion cubic feet of natural gas – the equivalent of total US gas consumption for 25 years. There’s over a trillion dollars’ worth of gas down there – probably much more. Even if the estimate is off by 50% or so (and that 500 trillion cubic foot number might be on the LOW side), Marcellus is a very big resource.
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Hidden Profits from These Forgotten Treasures
In the 1850s, hardy Russian explorers and fur trappers traipsing about mountain ranges and sea passages noted oil seeps around what we call Cook Inlet today. These are the earliest historical references to the oil in Alaska.
Over the next hundred years, a variety of fortune-seekers – lone prospectors, private wildcatters and big oil companies – took shots looking for commercial oil here. While there was some success, there were mostly setbacks and a trail of abandoned wells.
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