From SEMP to SEMS: Industry’s Response to the Deepwater Horizon / Macondo disaster
The following guest post is by Ian Sutton, a Risk Management Engineer in the Process Industries – both onshore and offshore. Ian publishes books and articles on safety management at Sutton Technical Books and suttonbooks.wordpress.com.
Introducti...
Gas Boom Goes Bust
The current boom in drilling for ‘unconventional’ gas has helped raise US production to levels not seen since the early 1970′s. This has been an incredible boon to consumers and has kept spot prices contained below $5 per million BTU ...
The Bakken Boom – A Modern-Day Gold Rush
This is a guest post by Derik Andreoli, Senior Analyst at Mercator International LLC (dandreoli@mercatorintl.com)
“That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.” Ald...
2011 ASPO-USA Conference: Day 2
Day 2 of the ASPO-USA Truth in Energy conference continued the wide ranging discussion about our current energy predicament, the reasons society isn't talking about it, and potential ways to begin preparing for a world with increasingly scarce liquid f...
2011 ASPO-USA Conference: Day 1
I recently attended the ASPO-USA annual conference in Washington, DC. Overall, I found the presentations and discussion to be very engaging. The vibe this year had much less of a doomsday feel than last year and the topic of how best to tell an engagin...
