Blowout week 37
Oil and gas industry expert Sir Ian Wood accuses Scottish nationalists of using overly optimistic figures on North Sea oil reserves which he dismissed as "highly speculative or even fantasy". (He)...
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I lead off this week with the exciting story of the world's first large scale commercial CCS project in Canada. Published in on a Norwegian website the author observes that the project went from...
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24 more stories below the fold, including drones overflying French nuclear plants, Ukrainian separatists to hold elections, Australia's new climate policy, Russia claiming rights to Arctic oil &...
View ArticleA Beginners Guide to Blackouts
Blackouts were a time of excitement where whole towns went black, citizens reached for their candles and crooks reached for their crow bars. Continue reading →
View ArticleEuropean and UK Gas Security
Will the Lights be on at Christmas? Almost certainly yes. The biggest blackout risk will come later in the New Year at around tea time on a weekday in February or early March. The weather poses one of...
View ArticleBlowout week 47
China will boost oil exploration, use less coal and more natural gas, build more nuclear plants and develop renewable energy under a new seven-year development plan. Continue reading →
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This week we feature the impacts of the collapse in crude oil prices, which are already being felt around the world. Plus Russia scraps South Stream, Germany to cut coal use, the risk of a “carbon...
View ArticleBlowout Week 55
The verdict is in. 2014 was the warmest year on record: Or was it? Stories on oil prices, OPEC, layoffs in the petroleum industry, Russia losing its natural gas clout in Europe, France wanting more...
View ArticleBlowout week 56
This week we condense OPEC, oil prices, Ukraine, Russia, energy shortages, climate change, terrorism, the European Union, Fukushima, Ed Davey and everything else that ails the world into one featured...
View ArticleBlowout Week 79
The usual eclectic assortment below the fold, including record OPEC production, Russia cuts off gas to Ukraine again, electricity bills to rise in California, Greenpeace sues Hinkley, Mexico auctions...
View ArticleBlowout Week 100
This week: the UN’s disaster scenarios, stalling global CO2 emissions growth, declining public support for climate action, OPEC to hold the line, Iran's oil contracts, US oil reserves highest in 42...
View ArticleBlowout Week 133
This week’s Blowout features the demise of the DECC and its amalgamation into the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy. Does this signal a sea change in UK government energy policy,...
View ArticleBlowout Week 136
This week's blowout kicks off with a look at the destiny of waste from the US Camp Century base on Greenland and follows up with the proposed OPEC freeze, more on Hinkley Point, molten salt reactors,...
View ArticleBlowout Week 166
We kick off with German plans to discourage driving for the 40 days of Lent and follow with stories featuring the OPEC production cuts; offshore exploration in Iraq; BP optimistic about oil, Rick Perry...
View ArticleBlowout Week 167
We kick off with Elon Musk's offer to rescue S Australia from blackouts and follow with stories that include the requisite dose of OPEC vs. the US shale producers, US needs Canada’s resources, Shell...
View ArticleEuropean Gas Security 2017
On 22nd June, The Telegraph published an interesting article called "Germany's gas pact with Putin's Russia endangers Atlantic alliance" where Ambrose Evans-Pritchard made many of the correct...
View ArticleBlowout Week 194
Britain, France, Norway and India have already announced their intention to ban fossil-fuel-powered vehicles in favor of EVs and a number of other countries are considering it, and in this week’s...
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