OGPSS - pipelines from the North

Art Berman commented, in regard to my last post on the oil and gas reserves offshore Alaska, that at one time companies looked for an esti...

OGPSS - Lower second tier oil producers - Norway, Brazil, Iraq and Algeria

This current series of posts is aimed at an overview of the top oil producing nations, seeking to establish how the ranking of the countries...

Natural gas shortages in the Southwest

The troubles with energy supply are not just confined to electric power blackouts in Texas. A shortage of natural gas in New Mexico has lef...

OGPSS - Natural Gas finds and production in Venezuela

In the last two Tech talks I have been discussing the production of heavy oil from the deposits in the Orinoco Basin in Venezuela. Producti...

OGPSS - pipelines, a help that can be costly

I have written about the limitations in the free flow of oil because of the increasingly heavy and sour nature of the reserves that are now ...