Native American features and history - an introduction

This post originated when I began to model Indians in Poser (a 3-D computer modeling program) for my own amusement and as a way of learning...

The Citicorp Energy Projection - a Gentle Cough

Gasoline prices remain high, and Reuters recently noted that there are enough countries with civil unrest, technical problems and bad weathe...

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...

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 ...

Progress of the Russian tanker towards Nome

Since the Russian tanker bringing fuel to Nome, and the accompanying ice breaker started out on Tuesday having sailed 53 miles on Monday, it...

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 - Governor Perry, an Energy and Jobs Plan

Editorial Comment : I usually would not consider this a technical talk, but rather more political, but I have just about finished reviewing...

OGPSS - Can Alaskan coal be considered a reserve?

When I originally started to write about the Alaskan fuel sources I had intended to write only about the oil and gas reserves in the state, ...