Flex-Fuel Humans
This is a guest post by Tom Murphy. Tom is an associate professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. This post originally appeared on Tom's blog Do the Math.
If you’re one of those humans who actually eats food, like I am, th...
Past and Future at Total’s Elgin/Franklin Project
Four weeks after the Elgin G4 well sprung a leak above the production platform in the North Sea, Total has spudded the first of two relief wells as backup in case the attempt to kill the well from above doesn't work. It will take 6 months to drill the ...
Manifa Oil: Malodorous, But Really Not That Bad
The development of the Manifa oil field in Saudi Arabia has been accelerated recently. This is the last neo-virgin field that Saudi Aramco has in its coffers with which it can increase production capacity (by 900,000 bpd in this case) - or just remain ...
Gas Leak at North Sea Elgin Platform
A crisis situation has developed at a gas and condensate production platform in the Elgin field in the North Sea. Gas is leaking out of a well near a offshore platform at a rate of approximately 2 kilograms per second (12 MMCF/day if gas), and a large ...
Global Oil Risks in the Early 21st Century
This is a guest post by Dean Fantazzini, Moscow School of Economics, Moscow State University, Moscow, Russia; Mikael Höök, Uppsala University, Global Energy Systems, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Uppsala, Sweden; and André Angelantoni, Post-P...
From Qurayyah to Khurais: Turning Water Into Oil
This article was first published on Satellite o'er the Desert
Synopsis: A poignant little film about someone taking a lot of precious seawater, piping it miles into a parched desert, and forcing it into the ground. Oh, and then poking a bunch of ...
Has the Global Economy Become Less Vulnerable to Oil Price Shocks?
This is a guest post by Dr. Mingqi Li, an associate professor of economics at the University of Utah.
Abstract
This paper examines the impact of oil price changes on global economic growth. Unlike some recent studies, this paper finds that oil price...
Ethanol Subsidy Ends; Will it Raise or Lower Prices at the Pump?
This is a guest post by Mike "Mish" Shedlock, who is an investment advisor representative with Sitka Pacific Capital Management. Mish blogs at Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis, where this post first appeared.
A major part of the United States' mis...
Ethanol Subsidy Ends; Will it Raise or Lower Prices at the Pump?
This is a guest post by Mike "Mish" Shedlock, who is an investment advisor representative with Sitka Pacific Capital Management. Mish blogs at Mish's Global Economic Trend Analysis, where this post first appeared.
A major part of the United States' mis...
Oil will decline shortly after 2015, says former oil expert of International Energy Agency
The following interview is a guest post by Matthieu Auzanneau, a freelance journalist living in Paris. This article previously appeared in Le Monde.
Olivier Rech developed petroleum scenarios for the International Energy Agency over a three year perio...
The Energy Trap
This is a guest post by Tom Murphy. Tom is an associate professor of physics at the University of California, San Diego. This post originally appeared on Tom's blog Do the Math.
Many Do the Math posts have touched on the inevitable cessation of growth...
Peak Coal and China
This is a guest post by Dr. Minqi Li. Dr. Li was a political prisoner in China from 1990 to 1992. He received a PhD in economics from University of Massachusetts Amherst in 2002, and he has been teaching economics at University of Utah since 2006. He...
