Monthly Archives: May 2012

Natural Gas Wellhead: What It Does and How It Works

As part of our “What in the World Wednesday” contest on our Facebook page, we posted this photo and asked our followers to tell us what it is. Below is the answer as well as a quick summary of what … Continue reading

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Why Huge Trading Losses Keep Happening

by Bob Shively, Enerdynamics President and Lead Instructor According to President Obama, the CEO of J.P. Morgan is “one of the smartest bankers we got…and they still lost $2 billion and counting.”  Of course, we’ve heard this story before: the … Continue reading

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Integrated Gasification Combined Cycle (IGCC): What’s the Big Deal?

This week on our Facebook page, we posted this picture and asked followers to guess what the image is: We didn’t get any correct guesses, so for those left scratching their heads, here is the answer and a quick explanation of its … Continue reading

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U.S. Chemical Companies Benefit from Low Natural Gas Prices

by Christina Nagy-McKenna, Enerdynamics Instructor As natural gas and coal companies watch their stock prices sink due to low natural gas prices, U.S. chemical companies are experiencing a boom and watching their stocks rise.  Companies such as Dow Chemical Company … Continue reading

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