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.
The vast majority of those reading those lines have enjoyed some form of schooling – a time when elementary education was meted out to make those unruly, pesky, adorable sweet little beings we were at birth a commodity. Future employers…
Now that even the most bull-headed traders have understood that high-price LNG and the seller’s market have gone away, the game has changed. Prodigious additional amounts of LNG will hit the energy consumption world and the question of where it…
Those who have seen the first installment of the famous “Hellboy” series will remember the scene where Professor Broom sees Kroenen coming down the stairs and asks the all-important question “I see the puppet but where is the puppet player?”.…
More than 3 years ago I wrote about North America being the El Dorado of energy because of all those exciting developments in shale gas. In a sense, it also became the green beacon of the world as cheap gas…
More than 2000 years ago, before the dawn of the Roman Empire, you would have been forgiven for thinking that the island world of the Eastern Mediterranean was the center of the world. Some of the most illustrious empires either…
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…
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…