OGPSS - introduction to China

When I first began this review of future production from the different oil producing countries about fifteen months ago , I produced this li...

Gas Prices - when will $5.00 a gallon for gas be the US average?

It is hard to miss the recent rise in gasoline (gas) prices in the United States, and the rumblings that it has generated in the national pr...

Coal - a new technology and another look at the TV series

Back in 2008 Robert Rapier wrote a post on using coal in the making of ethanol , in which he referred back to a post he had written in 200...

Oman’s unrest may be a domino, not just to suppliers, but also to customers

There are reports that the unrest in the Middle East has spread to the Sultanate of Oman . While at the moment there has only been one, or ...

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...

Current and future Saudi and Russian oil production

One of the inexorable results of the developing shortage of oil is that prices will rise. It is a prospect that does not particularly concer...

P26. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: Former Vice-President Gore has given his support to the Administration’s Stimulus package. He suppo...