P50. Pick Points

Iraq has taken a look at the current state of the world oil market and is becoming concerned to the point of suggesting that OPEC should cut...

T7. On Augering, coal reserves and EROI.

Today I thought I would digress a little from the more methodical passage through history that I was taking in regard to coal mining to talk...

Saturday Pick Points

Running a little late today (because of the time change.) Well it’s time to meander around the Climate Change sites again, for another week,...

Sea-levels and Permafrost burials

The calamities that are predicted by those arguing for the need for carbon dioxide emission controls typically focus on the rapid rise in se...

P49. Pick Points

Sometimes there are situations that don’t know when to quit. So it is with the Ukraine:Russia dispute over gas. Today Prime Minister Putin...

EIA updates - the quiet before the ruckus

There was not a great deal of news in the “ This Week in Petroleum ” release this week. The cover note described the potential of the Bakke...

P48. Pick Points

Half-a-dozen or so stories of interest: There has been considerable debate about fossil fuel producers being given tax breaks to encourage p...