OGPSS - Oil producing countries around 1 mbd, Kazakhstan, Qatar, Indonesia and Azerbaijan

In this series of posts I have been taking a quick look at the current oil and natural gas production from the world’s top oil producers, us...

OGPSS - The trade in LNG

Just before the Christmas break the United Kingdom was going through some concerns over natural gas supply. Stored gas levels were falling ...

Richard Heinberg’s “Blackout - Coal, Climate and the Last Energy Crisis”

When this new book was about to be published the editors at The Oil Drum were offered a review copy, and I was offered the chance to provide...

P44. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest. Well the new Administration now has a new budget, and there are significant changes for the fossil f...

P40. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: Just recently it has seemed that the Iran-Pakistan-India pipeline is in trouble again, which has ene...

P38. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: Until recently if you had tried to talk to me about solar cars, I would have only been able to think...

Load Shedding, Blackouts or becoming more vulnerable

Load Shedding is one of those terms that has started popping up in more stories than it used to. Mainly they are stories that relate to dis...