Katla - aligning earthquakes

It is worth commenting that the activity at Katla is beginning to increase again. But it is doing so along a couple of discernible lines at...

Maryland combined temperatures

Moving up the East Coast from Virginia , the next state is Maryland, where I will look to answer the continuing question on whether it too i...

Energy shortages in Texas, and China

Load shedding is one of the issues that I annually brought before my mining students, in discussing electric power within the mines that the...

OGPSS - Deepwater Gulf and the presence of salt

The deep waters of the world’s oceans and seas are a frequent topic in discussions of the source of future production of oil. Having talked...

Virginia combined temperatures

This is a continuation of the series where I look at the temperatures recorded for an individual state, over the past 115 years, and see wha...

Katla - perhaps a pause in the development

The recent changes in the earthquake pattern around the caldera of the Katla volcano in Iceland suggest that the eruption that I was anticip...

OGPSS - Gulf of Mexico production, and hurricanes

The summer brings back Hurricane season, with the threat that such storms bring to the oil and gas well operations in the Gulf of Mexico. ...