The end of the oil price cycle
Since my earliest days in the Natural Gas business, I have been exposed to a few notions that had a hollow ring to them from day one. The oil price link drew my most immediate suspicion although it took years…
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Are diesel emissions a human rights violation?
The European Convention of Human Rights (ECHR) was born on September 3rd 1953. It took a rather long time from then until it became an integral part of various national laws but today citizens of most European countries can directly…
Persian gas for the emerging Gulf gas market
One of the first assignments I had, when I joined the gas world, was the negotiations with Iran on gas supply for the Nabucco pipeline. I jumped right into a process that was already pretty mature but it struck me…
Escape velocity – are we going to see Emerald city?
Those reading blogs on the future have all asked themselves the same question. Will I see the great (or sometimes horrible) things we futurists predict? Or am I going to die before it comes to happen? Will I stand on…
Unpredictable energy markets – or just the turn of the architect
In the second installment of the famous Matrix trilogy, Neo meets with the Oracle just before his epic fight with Agent Smith and asks her what would be the purpose of the Architect. The Oracle answered that his purpose was…
LNG in Africa – LNG is not a rich man’s fuel
I have been writing about LNG in Africa for years now. Remember? Sub-Saharan Africa is going to be one of the most exciting plays in the LNG world for the next two decades. But it’s not going to be a…
For our children – and ourselves
It’s more than 3 years now that I have been fighting for some improved quality of life in Austria and Europe and it’s time to take a hard stance. In the end, VW has been caught with its hands in…
In the crosshairs – how diesel makes us mutants
We all believe that protecting the environment around us is something that must only affect others. Most people could not care less if Polar Bears find a patch of ice to live their lives on or if the rainforest dies…
Use it or lose it for African flares
Africa – just like many other regions on Earth – suffers from a double-edged problem. On one side, enormous amounts of natural gas are being flared every single day and this gas comes as associated gas to the surface with…
The great EURO 6 scam
Now it’s official. Since September 1st this year, all new diesel vehicles sold in the European Union must comply with the EURO 6 standard. EURO 6 is by any measure the most severe limitation of nasty pollutants that are allowed…