Does the U.S. Really Have More Oil than Saudi Arabia?
The Difference Between Oil Shale and Oil-Bearing Shale
People are often confused about the overall extent of U.S. oil reserves. Some claim that the U.S. has hundreds of billions or even trillions of barrels of oil waiting to be produced if bureaucrats...
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...
A Review of the Citigroup Prediction on US Energy
Gasoline prices remain high, and Reuters recently noted that there are enough countries with civil unrest, technical problems, and bad weather with around a million barrels a day of possible supply that are not getting to the market. Yet with Saudi Ara...
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...
Tech Talk – Saudi Arabian Oil Production: Part 2
There is some debate in the mainstream press about the relative causes and impacts of the rising gasoline price on the overall economy. (I paid $4.40 per gallon in Silicon Valley on Sunday, though only $3.67 in mid-Missouri today). As noted in my previ...
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 ...
Space-Based Solar Power
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.
A solar panel reaps only a small portion of its potential due to night, w...
Tech Talk – Going Back to the First Look at Saudi Arabian Oil Production
The United States Government has just asked the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to raise the levels of its oil production in summer 2012. Oil production is otherwise anticipated to be at some 9.8 mbd this summer, with fluctuations of around 200 kbd about...
Tech Talk – A Recap in Light of Iranian Sanctions and Canadian Production Estimates
This series of posts has just completed a review of the different regions of Russian oil production, with the conclusion that while Russia may maintain current production levels of around 10.4 mbd for a short time, it faces rising domestic consumption ...
Tactics and Strategy at the Strait of Hormuz
Afonso de Albuquerque arrived at the Indian Ocean in 1506, commanding a squadron of five war vessels integrated in Tristão da Cunha's Armada. In the summer of 1507, after the conquest of Socotra, the Armada's main objective, Afonso de Albuquerque depa...
Tech Talk – Future Russian Fuel Production from the Arctic
In the past few weeks I have been looking at the potential for sustainability in oil and gas production in Russia, now at a predicted recent peak of 10.36 mbd, when condensate is included. But the question increasingly becomes whether or not Russia can...
