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 OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report is out production data for January 2018. All data, unless otherwise noted, is through January 2018 and is in…
EIA reservesEIA provides estimates of proved reserves based on information from the E&Ps on form EIA-23 for crude only, and also shows the categories for…
(Click to enlarge)From Dec 2016 to Dec 2017 US Tight oil output has increased by 975 kb/d based on US tight oil output data from…
The latest OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report is out with production numbers for December 2017. All data is in thousand barrels per day. (Click to enlarge) Total OPEC crude…
(Click to enlarge) (Click to enlarge)The EIA released the latest edition of their Electric Power Monthly on December 22nd, with data for October 2017. The…
The views expressed in this post are those of the author alone. This assessment is based on the data in the 2017 BP Statistical Review…
The OPEC data below was taken from the December OPEC Monthly Oil Maret Report. All data is through November 2017 unless otherwise noted. (Click to enlarge)OPEC crude oil…
The EIA released the latest edition of their Electric Power Monthly on December 1st, with data for September 2017. The table above shows the percentage contribution of…
This briefly covers the production side as the hurricane outages are dominating the trends at the moment, but there’s a section at the end on…
This post covers recent C&C production and future prospects, with a bit on gas, for several mid-size non-OPEC producers. A few have been omitted (e.g.…
Dean Fantazzini has provided his latest estimates of Texas oil and natural gas output. His analysis is based on RRC data only. Each RRC data…
All data below is based on the latest OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report. All data is through October 2017 and is in thousand barrels per day. (Click to…
Short-term trends for UK oil and gas production and, to a lesser extent, Norway can be rendered a bit meaningless by seasonal impacts from summer…
(Click to enlarge) (Click to enlarge)The EIA released the latest edition of their Electric Power Monthly on October 24th, with data for August 2017. The…
GoM C&C production for July by BOEM was 1746 kbpd and by EIA 1761, compared with, respectively, 1631 and 1634 kbpd (corrected) in June. The…
Colombia Colombia production is holding a plateau over the past year after a large decline in the last part of 2015 and first half of…
All data below is based on the latest OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report.All data is through September 2017 and is in thousand barrels per day.…
All data below is based on the latest OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report. All data is through August 2017 and is in thousand barrels per…
Production Production for June by BOEM was 1631 kbpd and by EIA 1636, compared with 1673 and 1659 kbpd, respectively, in May. The decline was…
Dean Fantazzini has provided his latest estimates for Texas Oil and Natural Gas output. (Click to enlarge)Data below is for Texas C+C estimates in kb/d.…