OGPSS - Russian natural gas production

It has been bitterly cold in parts of Europe over the past few weeks, and this has had an impact on power with Russia seeing the highest dem...

OGPSS - pipelines, a help that can be costly

I have written about the limitations in the free flow of oil because of the increasingly heavy and sour nature of the reserves that are now ...

Flying around the Iceland ash cloud

Yesterday I flew back from the United Kingdom through Chicago. After takeoff I glanced at the flight indicator and saw the following pictur...

A new Massachusetts Senator and energy policy changes

The fate of coal fired power plants is one of those questions that continues to have answers hidden in the fog of their political future. A...

Gas demand, miles travelled and salt for the roads

It has been a while since we looked at the TWIP and natural gas pages of the EIA, so (in order to maintain the historic record) a quick tri...

Power Shortages, then and now

Today I’d like to chat, for just a minute, about the reliability of power supply, given the bitter cold that is covering both the United Sta...

Availability and Profitability of Natural Gas and LNG

It is a little difficult to predict, just at the moment, which way the natural gas situation is going to swing over the next year. The numb...

Buying Turkmenistan's natural gas

Turkmenistan holds significantly large quantities of natural gas (they hold the world’s fourth largest reserves) and these have, over the y...

Indian Monsoons, hydropower, and the supply of natural gas to the USA

I recently wrote about the increasing volumes of natural gas that were coming available as LNG from countries such as Qatar , just as the de...

British Public Transport is so easy, and convenient

Hmm! Well this was going to be a post on American driving habits, but instead it is going to be on the downside of relying on British public...

P34. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest. Beginning by perusing the snippets that dribble into the Houston Chronicle blog from CERAweek, Repr...