OGPSS - China's energy and a conclusion

Although Energy Policy has not been a significant issue in the current political debate over who should be the next President of the United ...

OGPSS - Natural gas pipelines and regulation

In the last post on this topic I covered some of the earlier developments in the use of natural gas (NG) as a lighting source, and began t...

The Japanese fuel crisis

One consequence of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that is not receiving as much press as the ongoing struggle to cool the damaged react...

Japan - using water cannons and replacing lost power

There are two different time intervals (short and intermediate term) for my comments today on the problems that Japan now faces with their ...

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 ...

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 fields and development of Sakhalin 1

Browsing Drumbeat , my eye was caught by a comment by Darwinian about Sakhalin Island production . In essence the article notes that pro...

P38. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: Until recently if you had tried to talk to me about solar cars, I would have only been able to think...

P28 Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: As up to seven new LNG ports and a number of carriers are completed this year it is expected that s...