The 2012 version of BP Energy Outlook 2030

There are many unintended consequences as fuel supplies become more scarce, and expensive. (With a h/t to Rune Likvern), I see that those Gr...

OGPSS - The oil in the Western Siberian Basin

Time marches on, and as I noted in an earlier post, the declining fortunes of the Romashkino and other oilfields in the Volga-Urals Basin l...

OGPSS - future promise of production from Romania

There are violent protests taking place in Bucharest, Romania which carry with them the threat of destabilizing the government, as we have ...

The changing sources for renewable liquid fuels

While it may be way too early to declare a final winner in the race to find replacement renewable liquid fuels to replace the jet fuel and d...

Progress of the Russian tanker towards Nome

Since the Russian tanker bringing fuel to Nome, and the accompanying ice breaker started out on Tuesday having sailed 53 miles on Monday, it...

OGPSS - Oil and Natural Gas in the Volga-Ural Basin

In the last post on the oil and gas fields of the Northern Caucasus , I commented that one of the reasons that these older oil and gas field...

Alaska, diesel, refining changes and Venezuelan exports

The Iditarod dog-sled race commemorates the time in 1925 when serum had to be carried from Anchorage to Nome to counter a diphtheria outbre...

OGPSS - Oil production from the North Caucasus

When the topic of Peak Oil is raised, one of the first responses that is often heard from those trying to explain why a peak isn’t going to ...