Skeptics

Belief that the bottom has been touched and the outlook can only improve for Canadian gas producers is showing even among professional skeptics and declared opponents of wishful thinking in petroleum engineering, geology and economics firms whose stock-in-trade is reserves evaluations.

Victory for Republican candidate Tom Corbett in the race for governor of Pennsylvania and a Republican-led legislature may be the death knell for a natural gas severance tax in the state — or not.

For the skeptics, it can now be said that a liquefied natural gas (LNG) plant can be built in California, although the one that is under construction by Seal Beach, CA-based Clean Energy Fuels Corp. is for liquefaction of pipeline gas, is located far from any population center in the middle of the Mojave Desert and the liquid fuel will be used in heavy vehicle transportation.

With a stunning drilling success Chevron Canada Resources Ltd.has delivered a sharp reminder to skeptics about the natural gaspower north of the U.S. border.

With a stunning drilling success Chevron Canada Resources Ltd.has delivered a sharp reminder to skeptics about the natural gasresources north of the U.S. border.