Category Archives: petroleum

I’m on Al Gore’s radar – for showing a path forward

Posted on March 12, 2013 by

Heh. Apparently, I must be destroyed for having an opinion. From Al Gore’s “Reality Drop” project, the GoreBots have been given the orders. What’s all the hullabaloo about? An interview I gave with a website that covers energy issues.  About … Continue reading →

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Oil Production on Federal Lands Fell Again in 2012 – Climate Progress Blames Geology

Posted on March 12, 2013 by

Guest post by David Middleton “We produce more oil at home than we have in 15 years.” –President Obama, Feb. 12, 2013 Yes, Mr. President, we do produce more oil at home than we have in quite a long time. … Continue reading →

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“A [Junk] Scientist’s Misguided Crusade” Against the Keystone XL Pipeline

Posted on March 5, 2013 by

Guest Post by David Middleton More improper activity from the Million Dollar Bureaucrat… A Scientist’s Misguided Crusade By JOE NOCERA Published: March 4, 2013 Last Friday, at 3:40 p.m., the State Department released its “Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement” for … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Energy, Environment, James Hansen, NASA GISS, petroleum, Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , | 47 Comments

Keystone Pipeline: Housecats Have More Emissions Impact

Posted on March 4, 2013 by

Guest post by Steve Goreham Originally published in The Washington Times On Friday, the Department of State released a 2,000-page draft review of the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project. If approved, the pipeline will carry up to 830,000 barrels of … Continue reading →

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Keystone pipeline passes environmental review – ‘little impact on climate’ – ecos outraged

Posted on March 1, 2013 by

From Tom Nelson: Keystone pipeline passes environmental review: It’s the [CO2-induced] end of the world as the Sierra Club knows it, and I feel fine Keystone XL pipeline would have little impact on climate change, State Department analysis says – … Continue reading →

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Quote of the Week – NYT on James Hansen & Bill McKibben’s ‘boneheaded’ efforts

Posted on February 19, 2013 by

Whoo-boy. NASA’s James Hansen disses McKibben in an email to an NYT reporter. Hansen was speaking candidly, never thinking this email would see the light of day. But that’s not the punchline… Hansen on the highly inflated 350.org Keystone XL … Continue reading →

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SOTU: Energy Fabrications, Falsehoods and Fantasies

Posted on February 13, 2013 by

Guest Post by David Middleton During his State of the Union Address, President Obama had a few things to say about energy snd I have a few replies. Pres. Obama: We buy… less foreign oil than we have in 20 … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy, petroleum, Politics | 125 Comments

Life After Energy: What if fossil fuels disappeared tomorrow?

Posted on February 7, 2013 by

There is an anti-human TV program on the History Channel called Life After People, which portrays the aftermath of the imaginary scenario where all people on Earth suddenly vanished in a rapture-like event tomorrow. I’ve often seen it flipping channels, … Continue reading →

Posted in Coal, Energy, geothermal energy, natural gas, nuclear power, petroleum, solar power, wind power | Tagged , , , , , , , | 216 Comments

Conventional Wisdom, Unconventional Oil

Posted on February 2, 2013 by

Guest Post by Willis Eschenbach There’s a discussion over at Judith Curry’s excellent blog, about peak oil. I find the whole madness surrounding peak oil to be one more example of our human love for warnings of future disaster. Few … Continue reading →

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Weepy Bill gets Wapo’d

Posted on January 24, 2013 by

Heh, even the liberal mouthpieces think the 350.org campaign led by Bill McKibben against the Keystone XL pipeline is stupid, calling it “bizarre”. They write in a forceful editorial today:

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Up to 233 billion barrels of oil discovered in southern Australia

Posted on January 24, 2013 by

From the Telegraph: The discovery in central Australia was reported by Linc Energy to the stock exchange and was based on two consultants reports, though it is not yet known how commercially viable it will be to access the oil. … Continue reading →

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“Canadian oil sands pollute nearby lakes. Report is blow to Keystone pipeline.” (Or Not)

Posted on January 11, 2013 by

The only “blow to the Keystone pipeline” is in the exaggerated reporting of the science… The “report” (Kurek et al., 2013) did find slight elevations (relative to 1950) of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH) in five lakes in the vicinity of … Continue reading →

Posted in Alarmism, Current News, Energy, Environment, petroleum | Tagged , , , , , , , | 109 Comments

Cheap Natural Gas, but wait – there’s more

Posted on October 3, 2012 by

Guest post by Ric Werme One minor sign of fall where I live is the arrival of a letter from the gas utility announcing the “Fixed Price Option (FPO) lock-in price” for the winter season. FPO offers a price which … Continue reading →

Posted in Fracking, natural gas, Opinion, petroleum, Uncategorized | Tagged , , , , | 75 Comments

Remember those tarballs that washed ashore during Isaac – that’s nothing compared to Natural oil pollution

Posted on September 12, 2012 by

I’m sure you’ve seen the picture of tarballs on the beach splashed all over the MSM after hurricane Isaac came ashore in Louisiana. The left leaning website Think Progress (parent of Joe Romm’s Climate Progress) framed it this way: A … Continue reading →

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Inconvenient bacteria eats a good portion Deepwater Horizon oil spill

Posted on September 11, 2012 by

From the University of Rochester , those darned bacteria are ruining the eco photo-ops.  Video follows. At least 200,000 tons of oil and gas from Deepwater Horizon spill consumed by gulf bacteria Researchers from the University of Rochester and Texas … Continue reading →

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“North American energy independence by 2020″

Posted on August 30, 2012 by

Guest post by David Middleton GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney recently released an outline of his plan to achieve “North American energy independence” by 2020. While the white paper (1) is short on specific details, it does contain quite a … Continue reading →

Posted in Energy, Government idiocy, petroleum, Politics | 139 Comments

USA CO2 emissions may drop to 1990 levels this year

Posted on July 2, 2012 by

I graphed the EIA data, shown below. What is most interesting is that this is market driven, not mandate driven. Amazing Shale: US CO2 Emissions Plummet Towards 1990 Levels by John Hanger (via The GWPF) America’s carbon emissions may drop … Continue reading →

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In the Oil game, Russia has the longest suit to play

Posted on June 11, 2012 by

Guest post by David Archibald Logistic decline plots may be misleading when the production profile has been affected by political events. Nevertheless, Figure 1 shows a logistic decline plot for Russia’s conventional production. The result is in line with Russian … Continue reading →

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A look at oil production

Posted on May 31, 2012 by

Saudi Production Profile Guest post by David Archibald World conventional oil production peaked in 2005 and has been on a plateau at about that level ever since. This graph suggests that the market changed from inherent over-supply to inherent tightness … Continue reading →

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On Fracking

Posted on April 29, 2012 by

  This post represents two milestones for WUWT. 1. It is the first post where a detailed examination of fracking has been offered to the readers. 2. It is the first post I’ve authored from an airplane cruising about 35,000 … Continue reading →

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