Tech Talk – Oil and Natural Gas in Eastern Siberia
In the last post on Russian oil production, I discussed the amounts of oil produced from Western Siberia, the region with the highest current production, which in its prime contained the second largest producing oilfield in the world at Samotlor. Those...
The 2012 BP Energy Outlook 2030
There are many unintended consequences as fuel supplies become more scarce and expensive. (With a h/t to Rune Likvern), I see that those Greeks who are being starved of affordable fuel are starting to chop trees down for warmth and income. This sort o...
Tech Talk – Oil Production from Western Siberia
Time marches on, and as I noted in an earlier post, the declining fortunes of the Romashkino and other oilfields in the Volga-Urals Basin led into the development of the fields of Western Siberia, where even some forty years after it was discovered, ju...
The Changing Status of Renewable Fuels
While it may be way too early to declare a final winner in the race to find replacement renewable liquid fuels for the jet fuel and diesel that power so many of the vehicles in the world, there are some indications as to the technology that just might ...
Tech Talk – The Potential for Future Production from Romania
There are violent protests taking place in Bucharest, Romania, which carry with them the threat of destabilizing the government, as we have seen in countries which lie further south. But while countries involved in the “Arab Spring” have oi...
Tech Talk – Oil Production from 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 fields were being further developed was due to the introduction of advanced Western techniques. As John Grace points o...
Tech Talk – Oil Production from the North Caucasus
When the topic of Peak Oil is raised, one of the first responses often heard from those trying to explain why a peak isn't going to happen, at least in the short term, is that technology will come up with new answers. These innovations will allow great...
Tech Talk – Some Thoughts on Current and Perceived Oil and Natural Gas Supply
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 ultimately provide the power we need and use every day. However, as we come to the end of 2011, it seems as though th...
Tech Talk – Future Oil and Natural Gas Production from Azerbaijan
The President of SOCAR, the State Oil Company of Azerbaijan, is touring the United States at the moment. His goal is, in part, to gain support for the Baku Higher Petroleum School, a place to generate the indigenous engineers that his firm needs for fu...
Tech Talk – An Introduction to Azerbaijan
“The Prize”, an award-winning history of oil written by Daniel Yergin, covers the growth of the oil industry around the world, beginning with the start of the industry in the United States. But right behind those early chapters comes the st...
Tech Talk – A Second Look at Natural Gas in the Bakken
The comments on the recent post on natural gas flaring at The Oil Drum drew a few comments that I would like to discuss before moving on to start reviewing the situation in Russia.
Most particularly I want to discuss the change in the regulations that ...
Tech Talk – Gas Flares and Their Significance in Russia
Over the weekend I went to a talk on the promise of shale oil and gas given by Sid Green, a friend and one of those members of the National Academy with Washington influence in regard to the future of the fossil fuel business. (He appears much more a Y...
