Roger Andrews is a retired mining geologist and geophysicist. Born in the UK he spent most of his professional career in Australia and the USA. He is now retired to the West coast of Mexico where he spends much of his time sitting under a wavy palm tree blogging and writing informed, incisive and popular articles for the Energy Matters blog.
Every so often an item appears in Blowout Week that’s worthy of further discussion, and Blowout Week 118 has one. It’s the article on ARES…
In its submission in advance of the December climate conference in Paris, the EU committed to reduce its overall emissions at least 40 percent below…
Many people, including more than a few prominent politicians, accept that global warming must be limited to no more than two degrees C above the…
The Lima climate talks have just ended. Predictably, no substantive agreement was reached. The nations of the world agreed for the umpteenth time that climate…
In the green corner we have the US shale producers. In the red corner we have the oil exporting countries of OPEC. Assuming the fight…
Working Group 2 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently released the final version of its contribution to the IPCC Fifth Assessment Report: Climate…
This is a post-mortem on a project initiated by Google – a master of innovation if ever there was one and a company with impeccable…
Two related articles appeared in Blowout Week last Sunday. In the first the Daily Express fulminated about how the UK government’s energy policies will send…
Here I re-tread a well-trodden path, but with recent events in the oil market I thought a brief recap might be timely.I begin with a…
Everyone seems to agree that the world is running out of cheap oil. But how cheap is cheap? Until we know it’s hard to say…