OGPSS - Pipelines through Canada

If one looks at the countries that are major importers of oil into the United States, Canada currently easily tops the list exporting 2.085...

OGPSS - The top 30 oil producers, a review

These posts have been going through the EIA list of the top oil producers in the world, over the past few weeks, I thought I might just revi...

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 - Second tier oil producers

The current series of Tech Talks is aimed at discussing, in gradually increasing detail, where we are, and will be getting our oil and natur...

Time and the latest CERA report

One of the features of many models that are used to predict future events is that they focus on target years. Decadal years are the most c...

If we can't get oil from Mexico . . . .?

The news from Mexico just continues to get worse with bad news from all three of their biggest oil fields, even as our perennial cornucopian...

The Changing oil supply perspective - opening lecture class note changes

It’s the start of a new Semester, and at the beginning of my Power class I spend the first lecture reviewing where I think we stand on the E...

Future Oil Production

I first started writing about the future energy supply about six months or so before we founded The Oil Drum, and in one of my earliest post...

2009 Energy Conference - Meeting the growing demand for liquids

The third session of the conference dealt with either electrical power generation or transportation fluids. In reality that meant, for the s...

P59. Pick Points

Some of the oil that is being held in tanks near the Mt Redoubt volcano is to be removed by a tanker this weekend The tanks are protected ...