Thursday, June 30, 2005

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Energy and a Nuclear Iran The Islamic Republic of Iran has a new President , and he seems fully committed to seeing Iran's nuclear progr...
Wednesday, June 29, 2005

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Relying on Arabia I just read a review in the Wall Street Journal of a new book on the reliability of Saudi oil reserves. The author, Matthe...
Tuesday, June 28, 2005

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Fighting Climate Change, One Car At A Time When I worked at Texaco, several colleagues and I tried to sell the company on the idea of packag...
Monday, June 27, 2005

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Too Big To Ignore After several weeks of reruns and sporadic postings due to travel, EnergyOutlook is back to its normal schedule. On my ret...
Thursday, June 23, 2005

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Climate Politics Signal Because of the position of the current administration on ratification of the Kyoto Treaty, climate change has genera...
Wednesday, June 22, 2005

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11th Hour It remains to be seen whether the China National Offshore Oil Corp. (CNOOC) will make a last-minute effort to outbid Chevron for U...
Tuesday, June 21, 2005

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Informal Hybrid Tally Some people count state license plates on long road trips; I count hybrid cars. On our current family trip to the Midw...
Monday, June 20, 2005

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The Missing Natural Gas Last Wednesday the New York Times carried a lengthy article on the need for imported liquefied natural gas (LNG) to...
Thursday, June 16, 2005

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The normal evolution of energy-producing devices typically involves many iterations of technology development and scaling up, until the devi...
Wednesday, June 15, 2005

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What Might Have Been (Reprise) Since many of the energy options available to us, including next-generation nuclear power plants, LNG import ...
Tuesday, June 14, 2005

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Justice, At Last When Unocal first appeared to be destined for a Chinese buyer, I remarked on my concern about the fate of its obscure but p...
Monday, June 13, 2005

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LNG Disaster Movie (Reprise) With controversy over the permitting of LNG terminals in the US--including the proposed Broadwater facility in ...
Friday, June 10, 2005

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The Long Future of Oil (Reprise) As I travel for the next couple of weeks, I'll be mixing new postings with some from last year that my ...
Thursday, June 09, 2005

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Climate Scandal? The UK's Guardian newspaper has reported that the Bush Administration's stance on climate change was influenced by ...
Wednesday, June 08, 2005

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Better Biodiesel Technology Review reports on a new, much more efficient process for producing biodiesel from plants. As I indicated the oth...
Tuesday, June 07, 2005

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Wasteful China? Americans get a lot of grief for being inefficient with energy. We use a disproportionate quantity on a per capita basis, th...
Monday, June 06, 2005

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Oil Storm Some films have a lasting impact beyond their entertainment value, while others intended to deliver a powerful message disappear w...
Friday, June 03, 2005

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The Near Abroad The end of the Cold War and the dissolution of the Soviet Union brought two kinds of renaissance to the lands of Russia'...
Thursday, June 02, 2005

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Perceptions of Peak Oil I've devoted a fair amount of space over the last year and a half to the idea that global oil production may be ...
Wednesday, June 01, 2005

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Farms as Oilfields The Economist recently ran a special report on biofuels. It's worth reading because it examines the subject from a di...