Most of us will remember from our time at school that life is divided into different reigns. One of them belongs to Bacteria, scientifically called Prokaryotes. They are simple singular cell life forms with no cellular core and RNA swimming…
2011 I was briefly involved in a project called AGRI – the Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania Interconnector. I was intrigued because even if this project was daring and exotic, it had immediate appeal to me. But I underestimated the signs of…
Is there anyone who does not know about the sanctions against countries like Iran, Cuba, or North Korea and now against Russia? If one looks at the news only, sanctions appear to be a very effective means of turning violent…
More than 6 years ago – in 2008 – something big happened. The world economy took its first big knock from which it has not recovered since. For many, it has set in motion a spiral that threatens to blow…
Just imagine it’s Christmas but nobody is there. That’s a bit of what LNG for bunkering feels like. It has it all: LNG is cleaner than anything else cutting some cheese with the environmentalists, it’s cheaper than diesel which must…
A couple of days ago I was engaged in an online discussion about joblessness at age 45 and beyond. I was struck by the obvious magnitude of the problem and also by the sometimes extreme honesty with which the participants…
All those interested in Norse mythology (I am sure there are some Thor fans out there) will have a clue about what happens when Ragnarok hits us. It is a series of events that eventually destroys most of everything we…
So we have lived through the last OPEC meeting in Vienna holding our breath about what the oil producers might be doing to stop the oil price from falling even lower. The oil price is still not low right now,…
How many times have you had a great idea but your in-built censure mechanism prevented you from spilling it to the world? I bet any of you had countless of those moments. Great ideas are extremely frequent. So frequent in…
Something is exciting up in the north. It’s big, it’s cool, it’s the new darling of the LNG world. World – meet Alaska LNG. Shall we be excited? For a second we might, but there is something strange creeping up…