Driving numbers continue to rise

Having been away for a couple of weeks, it is time to settle back to look at some of the regular data that I post on when not traveling. Th...

Water Floods and improving oil flow

I am going to insert a topic here before going on to Carbonates, as I had mentioned doing in the last post, because it will help to explain ...

Technical Innovation - a gentle cough at Scientific American

There are certain snags to staying in foreign hotels where one does not understand the customs – internet access that is available, but only...

The Future of Oil - or a gentle Cough at the NYT

The Mining Community is not a really large one, and in our meeting tonight I met folk that have worked on projects that were, for their time...

Pick Points from Poland

Well, I’m back in Poland after a quick trip to Stavanger, where the price of things was notably different. I suppose that comes with some of...

An Oil Museum, some old and new Gas Fields

View of Stavanger from the Oil Museum It has been a beautiful day in Stavanger and so naturally I wandered over to the Oil Museum on the q...

Permeability and Initial Oil Production

This is Sunday techie talk again, where we explain a little of the ins and outs involved in getting oil out of the ground. Please remember ...

Coal, water and an Afghan problem of reality

It has been the first full day of the conference on innovations in coal production, and by the evening we delegates were ready for our eveni...

An international shortage

I am currently at a meeting in the Carpathian Mountains along with some 160 mining engineers from various parts of the world, and they are t...

More on Turkmenistan and gas sales

A couple of days ago I was writing of the promise inherent in a meeting between the Turkmen President, Gerbanguly Berdymukhamedov and Presid...

Old and new thoughts on energy and transport in Poland

The first part of my travel is now complete, and I have reached a place with a slightly slower pace of life, and one that is a little cooler...

Completing and Perforating a well

This is another in the technical series in which I talk about the different aspects of getting fossil fuels out of the ground, Earlier post...