OGPSS - A review of North American future production

This is a good point to recap the intent of the current series of OGPSS articles. Internally, this marks the end of the segment that has dea...

The Oil and Gas Production Sunday Series

We are now in the period where the subject of peak oil is no longer getting the ridicule that it created when we started discussing the topi...

An update on fuels from shale, and The Giant Toaster

This afternoon I was able to drop in on a talk by Jeremy Boak, who runs the Center for Oil Shale Technology and_Research (COSTAR) in Golden...

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...

And welcome to 2010

Well I trust that New Year’s Night went well for you, and tht you are all set for a Prosperous New Year. But what of the future for energy ...

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 ...

Shales and the gas within them

This is Sunday, so this is a technical talk about getting fossil fuel out of the ground. While some previous posts have dealt with sandstone...

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...

Hydrofracing Natural Gas Wells

Some time ago I wrote a piece for The Oil Drum on Hydrofracing, that explained some of the basic processes involved in the technology. Since...

House Hearing on Hydrofracturing

This morning the House Committee on Natural Resources Subcommittee on Energy and Mineral Resources held a Hearing, motivated by (among oth...