The gift of coal

I was given a bar of ChoCOALate in my stocking this Christmas. Much amusement was had by all. But the growing dependence of the world on c...

Cornucopia or Malthusia - a reply to John Tierney

Five years ago John Tierney agreed on a bet with Matt Simmons that by this year the average price of crude oil would average $200 a barrel. ...

OGPSS - The trade in LNG

Just before the Christmas break the United Kingdom was going through some concerns over natural gas supply. Stored gas levels were falling ...

The Idaho combined temperatures

There was a blizzard, so I gather, outside our hotel in Portsmouth, NH last night. But we went to bed after driving in as the snow fell lig...

Holiday Break

Gentle Readers, With many thanks for your kind attention over the last years, I will be taking a break for a short while o...

OGPSS - pipelines, a help that can be costly

I have written about the limitations in the free flow of oil because of the increasingly heavy and sour nature of the reserves that are now ...

Oregon Combined Temperatures

Having previously looked at California and Washington , examining the temperature behavior in Oregon will complete the West Coast sweep (ou...

Resources, Reserves - the EIA - coal gas and oil for the future.

One of the significant issues that can get folk argumentative, is the role that price plays in determining whether a fuel source still burie...

Afghan oil, and gold, and iron

I noted today that the Afghan government is beginning to pin some hopes on oilfield development as a way of helping generate some desperate...

OGPSS-When oil isn’t crude and gas isn’t gas, the Eagle Ford Shale play

There are two figures that keep cropping up when folk write about the production of oil, one number is the daily flow rate for crude oil, an...