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Published 23 May 2012 | viewed 525 times
It is interesting to read the viewpoint of OPEC each month, as it relates to global oil supply, and the numbers that they rely on…
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Published 15 May 2012 | viewed 942 times
There is a real, practical limit to the amount of oil that can be recovered from a reservoir. Depending on the availability and economic viability…
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Published 29 March 2012 | viewed 2,388 times
Gasoline prices remain high, and Reuters recently noted that there are enough countries with civil unrest, technical problems and bad weather that there are around…
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Published 06 March 2012 | viewed 2,018 times
It is hard to miss the recent rise in gasoline (gas) prices in the United States, and the rumblings that it has generated in the…
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Published 22 February 2012 | viewed 2,302 times
There are a couple of controversial items that have made it into the mainstream press recently that seem to have stirred a little controversy, and…
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Published 16 January 2012 | viewed 2,987 times
While it may be way too early to declare a final winner in the race to find replacement renewable liquid fuels to replace the jet…
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Published 20 October 2011 | viewed 1,516 times
One of the relevant facets of the current Republican debates at the start of this Presidential Race has been the Energy Plan that Governor Perry…
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Published 17 October 2011 | viewed 1,940 times
If one examines the forecast future supply of liquid fuels that the EIA projects in their most recent International Energy Outlook, that for 2011, the…
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Published 01 September 2011 | viewed 619 times
It would seem, despite the inability of the cellulosic ethanol industry to produce an economically viable product to date, that it remains this Administration’s answer…
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Published 19 August 2011 | viewed 2,439 times
Before it was American, Russian visitors had already noted the presence of oil seeps in Alaska, although they had not done anything about it by…
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Published 29 July 2011 | viewed 3,176 times
The summer brings back Hurricane season, with the threat that such storms bring to the oil and gas well operations in the Gulf of Mexico.…
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Published 26 July 2011 | viewed 2,786 times
The natural gas industry in the United States has undergone significant changes in the last twenty years. As I noted last time, until 1993 the…
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Published 29 June 2011 | viewed 2,861 times
I doubt that this will ever reach the levels of public interest that has led earlier exposures of information to acquire a “gate” appendage, but…
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Published 17 June 2011 | viewed 4,762 times
The people of the world are going to continue to use energy. The fundamental question that this future reality poses relates to the sources from…
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Published 13 June 2011 | viewed 1,998 times
OPEC Ministers, meeting in Vienna last week, apparently had one of their more divisive discussions of recent times over the question of raising pumped volumes.…
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Published 07 June 2011 | viewed 8,030 times
The development of oil in Texas produced, in its time, the four richest men in the world (H.L. Hunt, Sid Richardson, Roy Cullen and Clint…
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Published 03 June 2011 | viewed 2,399 times
I don’t expect that there will be many tsunamis in Germany over the next century, nor, apart from the occasional man-made earthquakes that can come…
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Published 20 May 2011 | viewed 2,980 times
The Total (oil company) discussion on Enhanced Oil Recovery has an illustrative graph to explain why there is a growing need to get as much…
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Published 06 May 2011 | viewed 2,352 times
The recent publication of the EIA review of Shale Gas has caught the world’s attention, and led to the perception that the coming decades may…
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Published 05 May 2011 | viewed 1,767 times
If you read many of the pieces I write here you will soon notice that I am convinced that this country, and most of the…
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