OGPSS - Miles travelled, gas used and OPEC

Leanan has noted the API report of the continuing drop in US oil demand . It would be wrong, I believe, to explain this purely by reference...

OGPSS - Iranian potential and the Caspian disputes

As we come to the end of the year, Leanan continues to point to the many stories that now fill the media reporting on the perception that t...

OGPSS - Iran and the new EIA and OPEC Reports

With the possibility that demand for Iranian oil may fall below 1 million barrels a day (mbd) as sanctions continue to bite, Iran has announ...

OGPSS - The Harvard Energy Report, another cough

The OGPSS posts of the last few months have been following a path of looking in a relatively realistic manner at crude oil production with e...

The 2012 version of BP Energy Outlook 2030

There are many unintended consequences as fuel supplies become more scarce, and expensive. (With a h/t to Rune Likvern), I see that those Gr...

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...

Oman’s unrest may be a domino, not just to suppliers, but also to customers

There are reports that the unrest in the Middle East has spread to the Sultanate of Oman . While at the moment there has only been one, or ...

Revolution - the threat to American imports

The countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are currently in the middle of a series of popular uprisings. While it is not poss...

OGPSS - Lower second tier oil producers - Norway, Brazil, Iraq and Algeria

This current series of posts is aimed at an overview of the top oil producing nations, seeking to establish how the ranking of the countries...