The Oil and Gas Production Sunday Series

We are now in the period where the subject of peak oil is no longer getting the ridicule that it created when we started discussing the topi...

Rhode Island combined temperatures

I was not sure that I would look at the temperatures of Rhode Island at this point, but with a hat-tip to Janet for the motivation, here the...

Happy Thanksgiving

I will be with family for the next few days, and I know that they would join with me in wishing all of you who celebrate the occasion, a Hap...

Future Coal Supplies - more, not less!

There has been a growing trend toward predicting an imminent peak to the production of coal. Just this last week Nature carried an article ...

Vermont combined temperatures

In two of my earlier visits to Maine, I had covered both the homogenized data temperature records for the state, and those from the Time of...

Me, This Week in Energy, and why Halliburton might refuse EPA

This afternoon I was an invited guest on “ This Week in Energy ” with Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield and Bob Tregelus. Among other things we talk...

An update on fuels from shale, and The Giant Toaster

This afternoon I was able to drop in on a talk by Jeremy Boak, who runs the Center for Oil Shale Technology and_Research (COSTAR) in Golden...

Chesapeake on 60 minutes

I had forgotten that there was a story coming up on 60 minutes last night on those folk that had become millionaires from the gas in some of...

Highwall Mining of coal

There is an aspect of coal mining that gets relatively little attention, even though it is growing in popularity, It is with this method tha...

New Hampshire combined temperatures

Well there are still a couple of states to do in the North-East, if I am to make this comprehensive, before I turn around and look elsewhere...

The Chinese diesel situation

Well it appears that we are about back up to $90 a barrel oil which is the top end of the range which the Saudi Oil Minister said he was c...

The BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling Commission

Courtesy of MoonofA , I am able to tell you that this past weekend the final act in the closing of the Deepwater Horizon well was the placin...