OGPSS - The Pope, Poverty and Power

The new Pope Francis comes from Latin America and has an understanding of the true depths of poverty that is not that common in the United S...

OGPSS - Venezuela after Hugo Chavez

With the death of the Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez the future production, and exports of Venezuelan crude are gaining a little new atten...

OGPSS - Thoughts on the Precautionary Principle

As Michael Brander tells it, in his book on the Scottish Highland Regiments , the Scottish Highlands produced, between 1740 and 1815 men for...

OGPSS - Coal power and air pollution

Fifty years ago I began my undergraduate studies at the University of Leeds in the UK. It is not something I particularly dwell on, but the...

OGPSS - Iranian oil and the global future

There is a lot going on in the Middle East at the moment. There is the revolution in Syria which seems now to be entering some form of end...

OGPSS - Iran and the possibility of natural gas exports

There has been much talk in the current Presidential debates about possible changes in US Energy Policy, with Governor Romney suggesting th...

OGPSS - China's energy and a conclusion

Although Energy Policy has not been a significant issue in the current political debate over who should be the next President of the United ...

OGPSS - China's coal industry

In this run-up to the election, the American Energy future seems to have faded into the quiet background. Gone are the concerns of past yea...

OGPSS - Chinese gas shale development

On occasion, the British Government goes through an internal shake-up that leads to various pundits trying to explain to us lesser mortals w...

OGPSS - Oil production within China

If one looks at a map of China, at first it seems to be a land that has been heavily endowed with gas and oil fields. However, with the cont...

OGPSS - China's offshore oil

The recent post on Chinese claims to territory in the China Sea , mentioned the rush to plant flags on different islands in the South China ...