07th September 2006
Although the junior mining sector began crumbling in May, savvy investor Mike Halvorson, president of Halcorp Capital, still ended up having a very busy summer. Welcome to the world of a substantial investor in mining stocks, who gets in early and then en...
31st August 2006
Green Dragon's CBM Concessions
While Green Dragon Gas is blessed with early production-sharing contracts it negotiated through Greka Energy, and those offer the hope of several trillion cubic feet of coalbed methane gas, there could be serious obstacle...
31st August 2006
Randeep Grewal's 2 CBM Competitors in China
Partially surrounding one of GDG's Shizhuang properties is a much larger block held by Far East Energy. Partnered with ConocoPhillips, Far East Energy's share could reach up to 6.9 tcf. Exploratory drilling o...
29th August 2006
Grewal Turns to China to Build His Fortune
Randeep Grewal's came into the energy markets as chairman and chief executive of an oil and gas horizontal drilling company, Horizontal Ventures. During the energy bear market, Grewal cleverly began a series...
29th August 2006
Even the enemies of Randeep S. Grewal admire his business savvy. Few might be surprised if the CEO of Green Dragon shows up some day on the Forbes magazine list of billionaires. His company's recent share offering on the London Stock Exchange's AIM, comme...
21st August 2006
China embarked upon its remarkable GDP growth under the leadership of Deng Xioaping, Mao's successor. Deng's message to his comrades: "To get rich is glorious." China responded by creating a middle class which is now nearly the same size as the entire pop...
21st August 2006
Are China's New Silk Roads Filled with Pot Holes?
China's creation of new silk roads of energy sources has been challenging. Emerging in the mid 1990s as an economic powerhouse to be taken seriously, in the wake of Japan's economic slowdown and the col...
21st August 2006
Trouble in Central Asia
In Kazakhstan, China was delayed for seven years in building an 1800-mile oil pipeline across the Kazak border into neighboring Xinjiang province. After China's acquisition of PetroKazakhstan, an oil company whose assets were in...
21st August 2006
China's Problem: Putin's Desire for Superpower Status
With Putin's star rising, Russia has aspired to block China's energy ambitions in Central Asia. When China embarked on a Sino-Kazak strategy, Boris Yeltsin was still president. Since then, Putin and...
21st August 2006
Pragmatic China Resorts to Trading with
Rogue Nations for Energy Security
At the mercy of a ruthless global energy market, pragmatic China has turned to nations which are shunned by U.S. interests. One productive Silk Road leading to China begins i...
21st August 2006
China's growing energy crisis is one reason the price of oil, natural gas and other commodities has sustained at higher levels. The country's mushrooming middle class, now numbering more than 300 million, was strongly responsible for the red-hot GDP growt...
21st August 2006
Having been a previous director of Far East Energy, Tunaye Sai was able to develop his own connections in China. This led to his negotiating the Guizhou CBM concession in south central China – again another enormous block of 970 square kilometers – which ...
17th August 2006
Slowly, China is trying to wean itself off coal. Over the first six months of this year, China reduced its coal consumption rate, as measured by kilowatt-hour, by less than two percent compared to the first half of 2005.
While China has stated it plan...
17th August 2006
Husky Energy's Recent Gas Discovery
Spurs More Exploration Activity
In June, Husky Energy announced a deep gas discovery beneath the South China Sea, about 155 miles south of Hong Kong. The area had been abandoned decades earlier when shallower wells...
17th August 2006
In late September, the city of Shenzhen, in China's southern province of Guangdong, will begin generating electricity powered by Australian gas. Northwest Shelf Australia LNG PTY plans to annually ship over three million tons of Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG...
