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.
I am just getting out of the thick of the Central European Gas Conference – which was mighty well organized—the LNG focus day reinforced everything I have said for years and which was also on the horizon for even the…
Poor Iranians are really in bad luck. Or are they? Their agreement with the world – ending the sanctions they have been living under after many years – is now in full force. They sure have expected a wave of…
Everyone holds his breath as one of the most important hydrocarbon exporters on earth gears up to get back into the business. However, that’s not an easy quest for even as big an oil & gas nation as Iran undoubtedly…
Who remembers what a film roll for photographic film from Kodak Eastman is? Once upon a time, photography was a perfect business. To have some memories of – whatever – you needed a big clunky camera that you had to…
I have already written about Oculus Rift and other systems and how they are going to impact business travel or education. But one might believe that this technological revolution will take decades to take hold in the mainstream as it’s…
This article was written in summer 2015, before the break of the VW scandal as it was published in NGV. I just forgot to publish it here so far but don’t want to alter the original article so – enjoy.…
One in three Arabs worldwide lives on the banks of the Nile. That makes the oldest culture on earth the Arab heavyweight. Unfortunately, modern Egypt has made the headlines more than once in the very recent past. It’s not the…
Anyone checking regularly on the oil price must blush from time to time. One of the consequences of the lower oil price is that the world is currently drowning in other oil-related products as well and there is worse to…
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…
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…