OGPSS - Global oil demand and Iranian production

One of the headlines this week has come from the IEA Report that suggests that the United States will be the top global oil producer in fiv...

OGPSS - The quiet steps of a Geothermal movement

The election is now less than a week away, with two entirely different paths possible for our future as we move past the election into next ...

OGPSS - Natural gas production, as shale gas arrives

The natural gas industry in the United States has undergone significant changes in the last twenty years. As I noted last time, until 1993 ...

OGPSS - The new EIA Shale gas report

I had intended starting my country-by-country more detailed analysis this week, but with the publishing of the EIA compendium on world gas s...

Chesapeake on 60 minutes

I had forgotten that there was a story coming up on 60 minutes last night on those folk that had become millionaires from the gas in some of...

Shale, gas and water

This is a short technical note as part of a series that discusses some of the aspects of fossil fuel production. Earlier posts in the series...

Horizontal wells and Gas Shales

This post is one in a series, describing some of the ways in which fossil fuels are produced, and in the current part of the series (listed ...

Arthur Berman leaves World Oil magazine

This is just a short note, since Tuesday's tend to be my busiest days in class, but I could not help but put up the news best reported ...

An interesting, and worrying talk at ASPO

Unfortunately I have had to miss the ASPO Meeting in Denver this week, and so cannot provide the daily reports that I have written in the pa...

2009 Energy Conference - Natural Gas discussion

Following the coffee break the meeting broke into two sessions, one that dealt with the future of transport demand, and one on the future of...