OGPSS - Venezuela after Hugo Chavez

With the death of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez the future production, and exports of Venezuelan crude are gaining a little new atten...

OGPSS - Miles travelled, gas used and OPEC

Leanan has noted the API report of the continuing drop in US oil demand . It would be wrong, I believe, to explain this purely by reference...

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 - 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...

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...

OGPSS - Some closing (for now) thoughts on Venezuela

I had not intended to start my new series of Tech Talks by looking at Venezuela, but that is how is has worked out, with three posts now on ...

OGPSS - Natural Gas finds and production in Venezuela

In the last two Tech talks I have been discussing the production of heavy oil from the deposits in the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela. Producti...

OGPSS - Production from Venezuela and new customers for them

Last week I wrote a little about the planned production of heavy oil from the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela and used that as the basis for a d...