Progress of the Russian tanker towards Nome

Since the Russian tanker bringing fuel to Nome, and the accompanying ice breaker started out on Tuesday having sailed 53 miles on Monday, it...

OGPSS - Oil and Natural Gas in the Volga-Ural Basin

In the last post on the oil and gas fields of the Northern Caucasus , I commented that one of the reasons that these older oil and gas field...

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...

OGPSS - Oil production from the North Caucasus

When the topic of Peak Oil is raised, one of the first responses that is often heard from those trying to explain why a peak isn’t going to ...

And some "change of year" thoughts on climate change

The year has been quite mixed for those who follow the climate change debate. Those who have developed the CO2/temperature theories and pred...

OGPSS - Some thoughts at the end of the year

For most of this past year these posts have reviewed, and then discussed data on the state of different reservoirs of oil and gas that ultim...

On giving to the charities Heifer International and Smile Train

This post is a little outside the usual frame, but arises from that little bump of curiosity that keeps me writing these posts. Background ...