OGPSS - Ukraine moves to escape Gazprom's grip

You know it is winter when Russia and Ukraine publically row about supplies of natural gas. On Tuesday Ukraine completed the signing of an ...

OGPSS - Natural gas production, as shale gas arrives

The natural gas industry in the United States has undergone significant changes in the last twenty years. As I noted last time, until 1993 ...

A Panel on Peak Coal and Natural Gas Viability

For the second week running I am participating in a panel for the Focus group tomorrow. The title is The Viability of Coal and Natural Gas ...

API and some thoughts on America's Energy Future

There seems to be a little drop in the intensity of the debate over the arrival of Peak Oil. Given that crude oil prices are hovering aroun...

Me, This Week in Energy, and why Halliburton might refuse EPA

This afternoon I was an invited guest on “ This Week in Energy ” with Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield and Bob Tregelus. Among other things we talk...

An update on fuels from shale, and The Giant Toaster

This afternoon I was able to drop in on a talk by Jeremy Boak, who runs the Center for Oil Shale Technology and_Research (COSTAR) in Golden...

Gazprom and Ukraine - natural gas and the shale gas potential

Well now that is interesting. Quietly, while everyone’s attention was, increasingly focused either on the British Election or the oil spi...

P57. Pick Points

Over at The Oil Drum, Jon Friese has a guest post with an interesting plot of the relative drilling activity in the four major gas shale f...