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 - Natural gas pipelines and regulation

In the last post on this topic I covered some of the earlier developments in the use of natural gas (NG) as a lighting source, and began t...

Power shortages in India and Pakistan

The recent publication of the EIA review of Shale Gas has caught the world’s attention, and led to the perception that the coming decades ma...

The Japanese fuel crisis

One consequence of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami that is not receiving as much press as the ongoing struggle to cool the damaged react...

Japan - using water cannons and replacing lost power

There are two different time intervals (short and intermediate term) for my comments today on the problems that Japan now faces with their ...

OGPSS - At around 2 mbd - Nigeria, Angola, Libya and the UK oil production

The growing concerns about the stability of the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) because they make significant contribut...

The BP Energy Outlook to 2030 - a review

There is a significant reliance, among those who write on fossil fuels, on the statistics that BP annually compile on global energy product...

The UK winter starts - salt, coal, and natural gas supplies

The severe weather that is sweeping the United Kingdom is posing an early demand on the stored supplies of fuel, and on the grit supplies th...