Tuesday, January 02, 2007

Russian Gas Transformation

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At an energy conference I attended a couple of years ago, the chief technology officer of a major oil company suggested that the big energy ...
Friday, December 29, 2006

Peak Oil Millenarianism (Re-run)

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This summer's oil supply and demand crunch, with its record high prices, helped make Peak Oil a mainstream concern in 2006. I've bee...
Thursday, December 28, 2006

As Far As The Eye Can See (Re-run)

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I wrote this posting in March, but it remains timely. Many of us expect 2007 to bring a renewed emphasis on energy efficiency, and even bigg...
Wednesday, December 27, 2006

Oil and Nukes

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Iran was in the news frequently this past week, first for its rejection of the latest UN resolution relating to its nuclear program, and lat...
Tuesday, December 26, 2006

Plugging Leaks

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Pipelines are among the most prosaic elements of our energy infrastructure. Big, controversial ones crossing national frontiers get a lot of...
Friday, December 22, 2006

Market Inefficiencies

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Since moving to Virginia, it often takes me an extra day to catch up on stories from the New York Times, because the Washington Post and Wal...
Thursday, December 21, 2006

Big Enough?

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Yesterday's Wall Street Journal raised the specter of another large wave of consolidation in the oil and gas industry, triggered by this...
Wednesday, December 20, 2006

An Inconvenient Truth

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It has taken me much longer than I expected to see Al Gore's film on climate change, " An Inconvenient Truth ," mostly as a co...
Tuesday, December 19, 2006

Independence or Security?

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One of the trends I've been following this year has been the reemergence of energy security and energy independence as major topics of p...
Monday, December 18, 2006

Muscle vs. Strategy

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It's easy to see Shell's current difficulties in Russia as part and parcel of the broad reassertion of centralized authority by the ...
Friday, December 15, 2006

Brought to you by…

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With the end of the year approaching, this weblog is closing in on its third birthday. Until now, my blogging has been done entirely at my o...
Thursday, December 14, 2006

Prognosis for Iraq

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The report of the Iraq Study Group was released just over a week ago. As expected, it contained no silver bullets, but rather a list of 79...
Wednesday, December 13, 2006

Fueling the Plug

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The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNL) of the Department of Energy has just released a study addressing the capacity of the US elec...
Tuesday, December 12, 2006

From Supply to Demand

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In one of its last acts the 109th Congress approved a modest expansion of the portion of the Gulf of Mexico available for offshore oil and g...
Monday, December 11, 2006

Avoiding Another Milk Market

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These days, most conversations about energy security inevitably turn to biofuels, and to ethanol in particular. Unlike hydrogen, ethanol is ...
Friday, December 08, 2006

Heat for the Poor

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With the Midwest and Northeast finally getting a taste of colder temperatures , the cost of winter heating is back on consumers' minds. ...
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Thursday, December 07, 2006

Convenience Trade-off

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Ever since reading about a nifty invention a couple of weeks ago in MIT's Technology Review , I've been thinking about its implicati...
Wednesday, December 06, 2006

Saving China First

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Tom Friedman's NY Times column (Times Select required) today is devoted to China's solar power mogul, Shi Zhengrong, the founder of ...
Tuesday, December 05, 2006

Giant Footprints

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Two stories in today's Wall Street Journal illustrate one of the inevitable consequences of our shift away from fossil fuels and toward ...
Monday, December 04, 2006

Climate Responses

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An article in Saturday's Washington Post and an editorial in today's Wall Street Journal reflect the growing focus on how business r...