Up here, the shouting fades. Below, the deckhands brawl over semantics and empty barrels. But from the rigging, the shape of things comes into focus — slow collapse, fast delusion, and the absurd elegance of it all.
This is where I map the mess from altitude. Big arcs. Broken patterns. Unwelcome truths seen before impact. No rah-rah optimism, no collapse-porn doomerism. Just the sharp wind, a good scope, and the knowledge that sometimes the best you can do is spot the rocks early and yell loud enough for someone below to hear.
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,…
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…
Modern man with all his marvels is roaming the planet because of a simple, yet powerful mechanism called Evolution. It’s simple because it mechanically tries out every possible pathway to find what works best. It also eliminates those solutions, that…
If one does a long-term project, one needs good forecasts. But what is a good forecast? The one which gives you the truth – or something reasonably close to it. Judging by past performance, all this crystal ball gazing has…
For the technophiles among us – Oculus Rift is a revolution that will buzz gaming aficionados by mid-next year. And we all wait eagerly. It’s all too easy to dismiss it as a pure gaming gimmick but if one looks…
I am feeling a little like in a warp bubble – don’t you? Browsing the news feeds I am swamped with posts about projects that are not doing well because the oil price is so low, and countries are in…
The world of those who trade liquefied gasses and light condensate products is in turmoil. At last, the ripples of the US shale revolution are hitting the refinery products markets. And they leave no stone unturned just as shale has…
65 million years ago, dinosaurs ruled the planet. They had conquered every niche of life and ruled the elements. Huge marine Dinos dominated the seas, the biggest land animals ever roamed the planet and the skies were full of airborne…
When about 10 years ago I was unleashed on the LNG world, I did not imagine that future logistics would be something I was going to spend a lot of time with. When we talked of logistics, we talked of…