Drilling Rigs and Drilling Ships

The debate about how much oil is left and recoverable in the world has brought increasing attention to the recovery of oil and natural gas f...

ClimateGate - and Dr Mann's changing story

The main stream media are still largely hiding the scope of the revelations from Climategate – it is much more important to them, for exampl...

Happy Thanksgiving

I shall be back after the break, I hope, for those to whom it applies, that you have a happy and peaceful Thanksgiving.

George Will is afloat in a sea of fuel

Last Sunday George Will wrote about the abundance of fossil fuels in his column for the Washington Post. He began by surmising that Titusv...

Workover Equipment

This is the slightly delayed Sunday Technical Post, and follows on the series that is listed on the right side of the page. When we began t...

A slight delay

I must apologize to readers coming to the site to read the Tech Talk that I usually put up on Sundays. However we were busy with other matt...

The CRU data dump and the journalistic integrity question

I would be obtuse, perhaps, this week to comment on anything other than the release of information from the Climate Research Unit (CRU) at ...

Coal, carbon capture and cheap natural gas

There are a couple of interesting articles that came out today on the future of coal as a power source that indicate some of the shorter and...

Time and the latest CERA report

One of the features of many models that are used to predict future events is that they focus on target years. Decadal years are the most c...

Making holes and cracks around oil and gas wells

This is a continuation of the technical topics that I write about on Sundays. For the past few weeks I have been writing about some of the ...

Himalayan Glaciers - Science vs the IPCC

There has been a little controversy recently over the state of glaciers in the Himalayas. There has been much talk about how the glaciers i...

Looking back at Peak Global Production of Gold

Yesterday the President of the largest gold mining and production company, Barrick Gold , noted that after ten years of declining production...