OGPSS - A recap with some updates on North American production

This series of posts has just completed a review of the different regions of Russian oil production, with the conclusion that while Russia m...

The Keystone pipeline - A Canadian response

Well that didn’t take long! (With a hat tip to Art Berman). I mentioned at the end of the last post that the loss of the oil market throug...

OGPSS - Pipelines and Eastern Canada

I wrote, last time , about the projected pipelines that are being anticipated to take advantage of increased production from the oil sands i...

OGPSS - Pipelines through Canada

If one looks at the countries that are major importers of oil into the United States, Canada currently easily tops the list exporting 2.085...

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 - Looking at the top producers

The troubles in Egypt continue to dominate the headlines, without a clear path forward at the moment. Given the threats that this may pose ...

The gift of coal

I was given a bar of ChoCOALate in my stocking this Christmas. Much amusement was had by all. But the growing dependence of the world on c...

Coal, carbon capture and cheap natural gas

There are a couple of interesting articles that came out today on the future of coal as a power source that indicate some of the shorter and...

The Changing oil supply perspective - opening lecture class note changes

It’s the start of a new Semester, and at the beginning of my Power class I spend the first lecture reviewing where I think we stand on the E...