Management and Effects of Coalbed Methane Produced Water in the United States

National Academies Press (Prepub version allows chapter-by-chapter reading or downloading of a free summary) http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=12915 In some coalbeds, naturally occurring water pressure holds methane–the main component of natural gas–fixed to coal surfaces and within the coal. In a coalbed methane (CBM) well, pumping water from the coalbeds lowers this pressure, facilitating the release of methane … Continue reading »

Petroleum Marketing Annual 2009

Energy Information Administration, US DOE http://www.eia.gov/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/petroleum_marketing_annual/pma.html Final monthly price and volume statistics on crude oil and petroleum products at a national, regional and state level. Annual totals and averages have been calculated from these monthly data.

How Should Oil Exporters Spend Their Rents?

Center for Global Development / by Alan Gelb and Sina Grasmann http://tinyurl.com/24s47ol Oil and other mineral rents are, in most countries, owned by producing states on behalf of their citizens. The paper focuses on three questions. First, how should countries take into account the great uncertainty over future export prices in planning their spending programs? … Continue reading »

Institutional Support for an International Forest Carbon Sequestration Agreement

Belfer Center, Kennedy School, Harvard Univ. / by Liz Baldwin and Kenneth R. Richards http://tinyurl.com/2auconl Because forests play a critical role in the global carbon cycle, the international community is actively pursuing policies and programs to increase the amount of carbon stored in forests. Recent estimates suggest that forestry could contribute an average 6.7 billion … Continue reading »