OGPSS - Future Russian production from the Arctic

In the past few weeks I have been looking at the potential for sustainability in oil and gas production in Russia, now producing at a predic...

Rumblings in Iceland, (Katla sleeps restlessly)

The problem of dealing with Geological time and having events that occur in very short intervals thereof, is that for those of us on a faste...

The "Relief of Nome" video

For those interested there is a 10 minute video of the travel of the ice breaker and tanker through the ice to Nome in order to deliver oil ...

Predictions of climate change

There are a couple of controversial items that have made it into the mainstream press recently that seem to have stirred a little controvers...

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 - Oil production from Timan-Pechora

In the review of the BP view of energy supply over the next 20 years, I noted that BP anticipated that Europe would be largely self-suffici...

OGPSS - The oil and natural gas of Sakhalin Island

The EIA Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO) for February 2012 included a chart for anticipated changes in production for countries outside OPE...

OGPSS - The oil in Eastern Siberia

In the last post on Russian oil production I discussed the amounts of oil that have been produced from Western Siberia , the region that cur...