OGPSS - a little more detail on hydraulic fracturing

There is a real, practical limit to the amount of oil that can be recovered from a reservoir. Depending on the availability and economic v...

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Nick has pointed out that the chart I used last time , in writing of the production in the deep waters of the Gulf is out of date.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

Me, This Week in Energy, and why Halliburton might refuse EPA

This afternoon I was an invited guest on “ This Week in Energy ” with Nikki Gordon-Bloomfield and Bob Tregelus. Among other things we talk...

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 ...

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 ...

Turning an Oil Well and down-hole motors

This is part of the series of technical posts on how to get fossil fuels out of the ground that appear here most Sundays. The last post in t...