OGPSS - An update on Russian plans and the OPEC MOMR

The Arctic is a less forgiving place than many folk care to recognize. Shell have just moved back the date on which they plan to restart dr...

OGPSS - China's energy and a conclusion

Although Energy Policy has not been a significant issue in the current political debate over who should be the next President of the United ...

OGPSS - Future Russian production from the Arctic

In the past few weeks I have been looking at the potential for sustainability in oil and gas production in Russia, now producing at a predic...

British future energy supply - some problems with the numbers

As I travel around the UK there are the odd sign of the coming General Election. Relative to the activities that one would see in the USA t...

P60. Pick Points

There seems to be a fair bit of chat in the blogs at the moment about the fate of the “cap and trade” legislation that has appeared in the H...

P58. Pick Points

Back in November 2007, with relatively little notice Con Edison ended a service begun by Thomas Edison in 1882. It was the transmission o...

P47. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: Up in Canada Suncor expects to produce around 300,000 bd of crude from its operations in Alberta. B...

P43. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: I wrote earlier today about the pickup in gasoline demand that EIA had reported, and this was also n...

P43. Pick Points

I mentioned in Monday’s post that I have an interest in algae, and so I will put up a couple of items that caught my attention this weekend....

P36. Pick Points

So today was Power day at CERAweek , and the President of the Environmental Defense Fund was pressing for increased research and developme...

P35. Pick Points

Pickpoints will be a little abbreviated tonight, since the passage of the Stimulus bill has thrown all us academics into a frenzied search t...

P21. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest. When the normal supplies of fuel are cut-off, as electricity has become intermittent in Pakistan, an...