Ron Patterson is a retired computer engineer. He worked in Saudi Arabia for five years, two years at the Ghazlan Power Plant near Ras Tanura and three years with Aramco in Ras Tanura and Safaniya. He worked a short time as a stockbroker and a commodities broker but found the business did not suit his talents and returned to the computer industry in 1987. He spent the last 17 years of his career at the Marshall Space Flight Center in Huntsville, AL. He retired in 2004.
The North Dakota Industrial Commission just published their Bakken Monthly Oil Production Statistics and also their ND Monthly Oil Production Statistics.Bakken production was down 1,598…
OPEC just published its December Monthly Oil Market Report with their crude only production numbers for November. Total OPEC crude only production was down 390,000…
The EIA has recently published their International Energy Statistics. Their stats include all liquids such as NGLs, biofuels and even refinery process gain. But I…
The EIA publishes Annually a list of World Proved Reserves of Crude Oil. Though all charts in this post use the EIA data, BP, the…
The recent price crash in crude oil, if it lasts for any length of time, will certainly affect oil production. The question is, just how…
The US Petroleum Supply Monthly just came out with production data for every state and territory. US supply was up 168,000 bpd to 8,864,000 bpd…
The Bakken, as well as other shale oil areas, is not one homogeneous area where equal amounts of oil can be found. David Hughes in…
The Texas RRC Data Base came out a few days ago. The data is reported through September but of course it is incomplete. The…
North Dakota just released the Bakken September Production Data as well as the September Production data for all North Dakota. There was a surprisingly hefty…
OPEC just published their November Monthly Oil Market Report which contains crude only production data for all OPEC nations. The only big surprise was that…
The EIA, a few days ago posted their International Energy Statistics. They publish lots of statistics here, but on a monthly basis. I only follow…
The EIA just released their Petroleum Supply Monthly where they give their estimates of US crude production as well as the crude production for all…
The Texas Rail Road Commission just released their oil and gas production report with the August data. As you probably know by now that this…