Gas Prices - when will $5.00 a gallon for gas be the US average?

It is hard to miss the recent rise in gasoline (gas) prices in the United States, and the rumblings that it has generated in the national pr...

OGPSS - Some thoughts at the end of the year

For most of this past year these posts have reviewed, and then discussed data on the state of different reservoirs of oil and gas that ultim...

The IEA release of 60 million barrels of oil from reserves

On Monday, as I mentioned earlier , Gail Tverberg, James Hamilton and I did a podcast for Focus Group on the topic: The Real Causes and Micr...

OGPSS - thoughts on oil production from the MENA countries in turmoil

The popular protests among the countries of the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are continuing to roil, and so, rather than the review o...

Is Nero playing the fiddle?

Or to put this in terms the current Administration might have heard of. While the responsible Administration official talks of energy solut...

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...

Michael Lynch appears to be waiting for Harry Potter

It sometimes seems that predicting future supplies is a battle, where on the one side we have the Cornucopians, such as Michael Lynch , and ...

Libya, oil production, OPEC responses, Saudi Arabian capabilities and the SPR.

The impacts of the disruptions in the Middle East are now starting to become evident as supplies no longer flow into the delivery pipelines ...

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...

2009 Energy Conference - Meeting the growing demand for liquids

The third session of the conference dealt with either electrical power generation or transportation fluids. In reality that meant, for the s...