OGPSS - Pipelines through Canada

If one looks at the countries that are major importers of oil into the United States, Canada currently easily tops the list exporting 2.085...

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...

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...

Fuel for America's transport needs

When groups such as OPEC try to predict the future demand for oil and petroleum products, one of the significant factors in that analysis ...

TWIP, STEO and the prediction of natural gas and oil numbers

A quick glance to see what is new with this week’s “ This Week in Petroleum ” (TWIP) reminds me that this is the time when the EIA put out a...

September TWIP and July VMT

One of the metrics of the economy that serves as a marker to me on how we are doing relates to the use of vehicles, and as a consequence the...

Deepwater Oil Spill - and this week's TWIP

Admiral Allen helped with the release of some of the rescued turtles from the Gulf today before giving his press conference at Cedar Key, i...

TWIP for August 11th

Before the Deepwater Horizon incident I would follow the EIA weekly announcements known as This Week in Petroleum and occasionally comment ...

Gas demand, miles travelled and salt for the roads

It has been a while since we looked at the TWIP and natural gas pages of the EIA, so (in order to maintain the historic record) a quick tri...

If we can't get oil from Mexico . . . .?

The news from Mexico just continues to get worse with bad news from all three of their biggest oil fields, even as our perennial cornucopian...