Looking back at 2009

This has been an interesting year to look back on. The change in the Administration and the difference in outlook that they bring to many o...

Separating different components from a crude oil

I have been writing about the progress of crude oil as it passes from the reservoir up through the production casing, and out to the GOSP, w...

Revisiting my Climate Change predictions from last year

This time last year I wrote a post on The Oil Drum of sufficient controversy that it ended with my being dropped as an Editor at that site...

Season's Greetings

May I wish you all the Compliments of the Season, and that the New Year brings you joy, success and prosperity. Posts will be a little light...

Treating Oil, Gas and Water - more on GOSPs

My apologies that this is running a little late, unfortunately what looked as though they were minor weather problems on national television...

Running late again

The snowy conditions on the North East coast managed to slow our travel again this year, but not as bad as last year (when we ran into a big...

Can we take a clean page and start over?

I have worked in a branch of science/engineering where we talk almost all the time to each other about what we do, and share information wit...

The changing state of Turkmen gas exports

As the Financial Times has noted, while all the world watched Copenhagen, a rather more ultimately significant event took place in Turkmeni...

Guardian Accuracy and Secretary Chu at Copenhagen

Well I notice that George Monbiot did not like the remarks that the U.S. Secretary of Energy, Dr. Chu, made at the Copenhagen summit . For...

Produced Water, GOSP's and Saudi Arabia

To the uninitiated the thought of a gas or oil well is one where a pipe goes down into the ground, and out of it flows either a steady strea...

Small personal changes

For those looking for the weekly tech talk it is running a little late again this week, for a unique reason (for this site). Last Thursday ...

Distortion and Defamation - not what Science should be about

I was planning on writing a little about the way in which carbon dioxide is absorbed into the ocean today, but a couple of things continue t...

Pakistan load shedding, IPI, TAPI and what chance of change

While for many in the West the thought of fuel shortages is a “sometime” future thing, and there is enough energy supply around that there i...