OGPSS - Global crude oil and Iran

There has been a little stir in the news on Energy lately, as folks have begun to extrapolate the growth in American oil and gas production ...

Alaska, diesel, refining changes and Venezuelan exports

The Iditarod dog-sled race commemorates the time in 1925 when serum had to be carried from Anchorage to Nome to counter a diphtheria outbre...

More pipelines reverse flow as US demand falls

A recent post covered the plan to reverse the flow of oil along the pipeline that runs sensibly from Detroit to Portland, ME (Or if you are...

The Keystone pipeline - A Canadian response

Well that didn’t take long! (With a hat tip to Art Berman). I mentioned at the end of the last post that the loss of the oil market throug...

OGPSS - Pipelines and Eastern Canada

I wrote, last time , about the projected pipelines that are being anticipated to take advantage of increased production from the oil sands i...

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...

The Sundering of Sudan - it may increase oil production

The disruption that began in Tunisia is continuing in Egypt, with changes also starting in countries such as Jordan and Yemen. And in the m...

Alaskan Pipeline repaired

It is now reported that the repairs on the pipeline were completed early this morning, and that the pipeline can now be brought back up to ...

The Alaskan Pipeline stoppage

Some years ago I drove up the Dawson Highway from Fairbanks to the Yukon River, and as the highway paralleled the Trans-Alaska Pipeline, we ...

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 ...