Energy shortages in Texas, and China

Load shedding is one of the issues that I annually brought before my mining students, in discussing electric power within the mines that the...

It appears we can still have bad winters, right Texas?

The “historic” winter storm that is now heading East and then out of the country has had some significant effects, beyond just forcing folk ...

The Russia:Belarus oil dispute and Western Oil supplies

I hadn’t actually been paying much attention to the Russian:Belarus dispute over oil supplies. After the annual debacles that we are used t...

One impact of the cold spell

It was, perhaps, an unscripted comment but I was watching the “ABC News” with Diane Sawyer tonight, and after the story of the intense cold ...

P61. Pick Points

A few stories of interest to start off the week. When I wrote about the EIA Energy Conference last week I had promised that I would make a b...

P28 Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: As up to seven new LNG ports and a number of carriers are completed this year it is expected that s...