OGPSS - North Dakota and the Bakken shale

Nick has pointed out that the chart I used last time , in writing of the production in the deep waters of the Gulf is out of date. North D...

OGPSS-When oil isn’t crude and gas isn’t gas, the Eagle Ford Shale play

There are two figures that keep cropping up when folk write about the production of oil, one number is the daily flow rate for crude oil, an...

Shale, gas and water

This is a short technical note as part of a series that discusses some of the aspects of fossil fuel production. Earlier posts in the series...

Making holes and cracks around oil and gas wells

This is a continuation of the technical topics that I write about on Sundays. For the past few weeks I have been writing about some of the ...

Availability and Profitability of Natural Gas and LNG

It is a little difficult to predict, just at the moment, which way the natural gas situation is going to swing over the next year. The numb...

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...

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...