Three and a half years ago I wrote about the Black Mamba. That’s a phenomenon under which a project has overspent to get itself built and suddenly that market does not provide the kind of returns needed to allow for…
We are halfway through 2016 and Africa looks set for despair and gloom. Faltering oil prices have brought misery to many African countries that have grown dependent on the oil income and yet, there is a strong silver lining as…
For the longest time (about a decade or so) the LNG world was a certain place. The stuff itself was hard to get and expensive, sellers were courted at every whim and Asia paid steep premiums, which is why all…
A couple of years ago (I don’t remember the precise year) I read an article on hydroponic farming and also that no more than the area of Vermont would suffice to feed the world if it would be farmed to…
The new situation we have with comparatively cheaper LNG is sharpening our senses for new opportunities. This happens out of pain experienced by the producers as well as out of opportunistic endeavors in potential consuming markets. Either way, we are…
Years ago, I was in endless discussions about robots that would do any job humans do eventually, and in those days, I still had a lot of convincing to do. That’s very different now, as we have the writing all…
Last week we saw that there is more and more oil coming online despite some problems in other oil-producing regions of the world and also despite the drop in sales of oil production that is in full swing now. However,…
So, OPEC has met and decided that the world is good as it is and no strategy change is needed. Who is surprised here? Who is expecting any shift from OPEC right now? They are not in the driving seat…
Looking at the North Western European coastlines one can see a neat row of LNG terminals from the French Bretagne up to the Netherlands and after Denmark, it continues right into the Baltic Sea to Poland and now Lithuania. What…
100 years ago, schools for mentally handicapped children were called “Institutions for the imbecile and the mentally deficient”. Our vocabulary has prettied up somewhat since those sinister days whenever we deal with other humans, those that are different from what…