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…
Last week we saw that there is more and more oil coming online despite some problems in other oil-producing regions of the world and also despite the drop in sales of oil production that is in full swing now. However,…
So, OPEC has met and decided that the world is good as it is and no strategy change is needed. Who is surprised here? Who is expecting any shift from OPEC right now? They are not in the driving seat…
Looking at the North Western European coastlines one can see a neat row of LNG terminals from the French Bretagne up to the Netherlands and after Denmark, it continues right into the Baltic Sea to Poland and now Lithuania. What…
100 years ago, schools for mentally handicapped children were called “Institutions for the imbecile and the mentally deficient”. Our vocabulary has prettied up somewhat since those sinister days whenever we deal with other humans, those that are different from what…
Iran’s sanctions have been lifted a couple of months now and it just looks like, things are not going exactly as planned for the Iranians. My readers will remember that I predicted this outcome in mid-January this year. The reasons…
About 2 years ago I was contacted to work on the South African energy dilemma and indeed, I immediately saw enormous potential for new, lucrative investments. The problem was pronounced and the need was there. But things were by far…
No matter how many years I blasted the message to the world, nothing got people’s attention on the shortcomings of diesel as a fuel better than the wave of excitement on Volkswagen cheating in the US. To be sure, Volkswagen…
Many years ago, an old sea bear and a good friend told me that whatever you do on land is inevitably harder when you are on the water. Space is confined and processes designed for still land are exposed to…
We are living in weird times. OPEC floods the market with crude oil to kill off shale as an industry and keep Iranians and Russians at bay. The cartel itself is under enormous strain as less wealthy members are in…
It’s a bit obscene – for years we have watched the meteoric rise of shale oil and now, as prices have gone down dramatically the party seems to be over. Doom and gloom at big shalecorp? Not so fast. The…
In June 2014, I made a wager with a friend (here is the full story) when the price of oil was slightly above 100 USD. Let’s restate the full wager again here for the sake of clarity. I said that…
Here is a warning – this article is speculation as many others in this blog were so far. Indeed, everything on the future is speculation as the misfirings of our forecasters about the oil price in 2014 have shown. But…
It’s a part of popular science today. One day the human race would leave planet Earth and go to other places and to make them a little more palatable to our balmy needs, we would terraform those places. There are…
The last 12 months have seen 3 new LNG consumers added to the growing mix of converts to this cool energy from – Egypt, Jordan, and Pakistan. All have implemented quick FSRU solutions to get into the LNG game and…
The mother of all battles is on in the gas industry. Haven’t seen it yet? Then you must be living on Mars. Gazprom certainly sees it and is rushing out to warn everyone who wants to listen – and those…
It’s a bit late to write about Fukushima, don’t you agree? If this post were about Fukushima, it would be a bit late. But the issue I am putting my teeth in here is much larger. Fukushima has become a…
Back in early 2012, I dashed down some thoughts I had with a client buddy onto my scratchboard. He was giving “getting himself into the LNG business” some serious thought. Here is what I told him back then: Quote: LNG…