OGPSS - Iranian oil and the global future

There is a lot going on in the Middle East at the moment. There is the revolution in Syria which seems now to be entering some form of end...

OGPSS - The ARPA-E 2012 Awards

The Department of Energy has just announced the projects that have been selected for funding in the next round of the ARPA-E program . (This...

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 - introduction to China

When I first began this review of future production from the different oil producing countries about fifteen months ago , I produced this li...

OGPSS - gas flares, their significance in Russia

Over the weekend I went to a talk on the promise of shale oil and gas, given by Sid Green , a friend and one of those members of the Nation...

OGPSS - Natural gas production, as shale gas arrives

The natural gas industry in the United States has undergone significant changes in the last twenty years. As I noted last time, until 1993 ...

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...

President Obama's Blueprint for Energy, the world situation and the current TWIP

On Wednesday President Obama used a visit to Georgetown University to draw attention to a new Blueprint for a Secure Energy Future . The doc...

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...