Guest salivating by David Middleton, petroleum geologist From Forbes… JUN 17, 2018 What If India And China Used Natural Gas And Oil Like The U.S.? Jude Clemente , CONTRIBUTOR BP’s just…
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Fund Managers Predict the Decline of Oil, But We've Heard This Before
Guest opinion by Steve Goreham World fund managers predict a fall in the value of oil companies. According to a survey published last month in the United Kingdom, climate change…
New Zealand Bans Offshore Gas and Oil Exploration
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The New Zealand government has banned offshore oil and gas exploration as part of its 30 year quest for 100% climate purity. New Zealand bans…
Trump Administration to open 90% of US Offshore to leasing and roll back Obama-era drilling regulations
Guest post by David Middleton The plan is to open almost everything in the 2019-2024 OCS Oil and Gas Leasing Program, with Eastern Gulf leasing beginning when the Congressional moratorium expires…
Trump Administration to Open Oil & Gas Leasing on the Atlantic Outer Continental Shelf (OCS)
Guest post by David Middleton Trump to Open the Door for Oil Drilling Off U.S.’s East Coast By Jennifer A Dlouhy December 11, 2017, 4:00 PM CST Proposal for Atlantic…
“Offshore drilling is not a fit for Florida”… It doesn’t have to fit in Florida.
Guest post by David Middleton The gray area on the map below is basically off limits to oil & gas operations. It’s right next to the Central Gulf of Mexico…
A Tale of Two Lease Sales
Or, more accurately, two tales about the same lease sale… Guest rant by David Middleton Earlier this year, Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke announced that all available leases in the Gulf…
Senate Budget Resolution Creates Pathway to Opening ANWR to Drilling!!!
Guest cheer-leading by David Middleton U.S. Senate passes bill that offers a chance to open Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to drilling Author: Erica Martinson clock Updated: 3 days ago calendar…
Deepwater Horizon: EpiLLOG
Guest post by David Middleton The movie Deepwater Horizon is probably the only movie ever made that actually tried to realistically depict oil drilling operations. While it didn’t get every…
"New study challenges prevailing theory about how deep-sea vents are colonized"… And hydrothermal oil!
Guest post by David Middleton July 24, 2017 New study challenges prevailing theory about how deep-sea vents are colonized An article just published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society…
"Mexico Oil Privatization Pays Off With Billion-Barrel Find"
Featured image. Guest post by David Middleton Mexico Oil Privatization Pays Off With Billion-Barrel Find By Adam Williams and Angelina Rascouet July 12, 2017 Block among first awarded for private…
"The World Keeps Not Running Out of Oil"
Guest post by David Middleton The World Keeps Not Running Out of Oil July 2017 By David Brown, Explorer Correspondent The world has anticipated the “rapid exhaustion” of crude oil…
Monumental, Unsustainable Environmental Impacts
Replacing fossil fuels with renewable energy would inflict major land, wildlife, resource damage Paul Driessen Demands that the world replace fossil fuels with wind, solar and biofuel energy – to…
US Court Rejects EPA Attempt to Delay Obama Era Methane Regulations
Guest essay by Eric Worrall The United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit has rejected a motion to delay implementation of Obama era methane emission laws…
A Rebuttal to Environmentalists' Claims That "Arctic Drilling Revenue Predictions Are ‘Way Off’"
Guest post by David Middleton Why would anyone care what “environmentalists” have to say about potential Arctic oil revenue? I only care because their “reasoning” is both fun and easy…
"Hard Lessons From the Great Algae Biofuel Bubble"
Guest post by David Middleton From 2005 to 2012, dozens of companies managed to extract hundreds of millions in cash from VCs in hopes of ultimately extracting fuel oil from…
Clean Coal: Carbon Capture and Enhanced Oil Recovery
Guest post by David Middleton THE 240MWE FACILITY IS THE LARGEST POST-COMBUSTION CARBON CAPTURE PROJECT IN THE WORLD WASHINGTON, D.C. — Secretary of Energy Rick Perry took part in a…
A Bureaucrat Says: “Market Argues Against Arctic Ocean Oil Development.” The Market Seems to Disagree.
Guest post by David Middleton From Real Clear Energy: Really? Firstly, how can reopening the Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea OCS areas to leasing be disrespectful to “market forces”? Opening…
Game Changer: Huge Alaskan Oil Find
Guest essay by Eric Worrall Oilprice.com has announced discovery of 1.2 billion barrels of oil on Alaska’s North Slope, which they expect will revitalise Alaska’s oil industry. Huge Oil Find…
A TALE OF TWO SIGMOIDS
Guest essay by Todd “Ike” Kiefer, Captain, U.S. Navy (retired) Figure 1 – Symmetric Sigmoid (red) v. Classic Sigmoid (blue) This piece is a response to the excellent discussion begun…
Oil – Where did it come from?
Guest post by David Middleton Introduction I am a petroleum geologist/geophysicist with about 36 years of experience in oil & gas exploration mostly in the Gulf of Mexico. In light…
Japan Leading an Unprecedented Oil and Gas Asset Buying Spree
Guest essay by Eric Worrall OilPrice.com reports that Private Equity firms and Japanese energy giants are ramping up to an unprecedented buying frenzy, snapping up shale assets in the USA…
EcoWatch: Big Oil is in Big Trouble (The Dumbest Article Ever Written About ExxonMobil)
Guest post by David Middleton With the most divisive presidential election in U.S. history just days away from concluding, it is easy to understand why more is not being made…
"US oil reserves surpass those of Saudi Arabia and Russia"… Well, not really.
Guest post by David Middleton US oil reserves top both Saudi Arabia and Russia The US holds more oil reserves than Saudi Arabia and Russia, the first time it has…
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