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Check Out Our Blog Posts
RMP’s posts cover energy infrastructure like hydrogen production & dispensation, lithium-ion battery making from mining to cells to packs to recycling, LNG (Liquefied Natural Gas) all around the globe, and much much more. Posts shown below are listed in order of publication date from newest to oldest.
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Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly – February 2016
Check out the February “follow-up” edition of RMP’s Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly magazine. This month we revisit the Word of Faith 16-27 application for an oil well in the City of Southfield. Thousands of…
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Michigan Law 101 – How A Bill Becomes A Law
respectmyplanet.org advocates for legislation that will help support the development and the manufacture of fuel cells and energy from waste. This post goes over the basics of how Michigan’s legislative process works. It is important…
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Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly – January 2016
Why is a picture of a Colorado license plate the featured image for the first Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly of 2016? What does Colorado have to do with Michigan oil & gas? Read the…
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Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly – December 2015
This month in RMP’s Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly (MOGM) we look back on the slowest year ever in Michigan oil & gas activity. 1931 previously held the record for slowest year in Michigan history…
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The Back Forty – A Michigan Gold Mine
In this post RMP lays out a teaser map of the Aquila Gold & Zinc Mine that might see construction begin as soon as 2016. An ore deposit called a volcanogenic massive sulfide (VMS) deposit…
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Enbridge Line 5 Crude Oil Leak – North Straits Pump Station Near Lake Michigan Shoreline
Read about the oil spill at Enbridge Line 5’s North Straits Pump Station. Over 361 tons of contaminated soil were removed from the North Straits Pump Station which sits 100 yards from the northern shoreline…
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Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly – October 2015
In the October 2015 edition of MOGM we see application and permitting activity continue to be slow keeping us on pace to be another of the slowest years of permitting activity in Michigan history. Two…
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Michigan Oil & Gas Production Report January – June 2015
The first six months of hydrocarbon production in the Michigan Basin are ready for reporting. In this post we examine the top ten producers in the oil, natural gas, and NGL categories. We find in…
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Coal Use Forecasted To Rise – How We Can Mitigate Coal Pollution
Coal use is growing across the world. Coal will eventually surpass oil as the #1 primary energy source for world energy consumption. Over 1.3 billion people around the world do not have electricity and they…
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Kalamazoo River Oil Spill
It’s been 5 years since Enbridge Energy’s Line 6B pipeline ruptured and spilled over 800,000 gallons of heavy crude oil into Talmadge Creek. Talmadge Creek is a tributary to the Kalamazoo River which outfalls to…
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Michigan Oil & Gas Monthly – September 2015
The top story in September in the Michigan Basin continues to be Marathon Oil’s new applications and activity. Things move pretty slowly in oil & gas developments so we will keep on eye on their…
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Secret Science – Marathon Oil’s 2015 Activity In The Michigan Basin
Marathon Oil’s Science well is a part 625 well. A part 625 well has all its information held secret for 10 years. Marathon cleared some State of Michigan owned forest area and started a mineral…