Energy “REALITY” tells us that we need refineries to convert crude oil into usable transportation fuels and products.
Category: Oil and Gas
Huge Refinery Fire: Aussie Fuel Crisis Just Got Worse
Large fire and explosion reported at one of Australia’s three operating refineries.
“World Should be Optimistic About Our Fossil Fuel Future” (Bradley op-ed in Houston Chronicle)
Consumer-chosen, taxpayer-neutral energy is the opportunity cost of the Green New Deal. Global lukewarming is more the reality than a runaway greenhouse-gas effect. Adaptation, with the aid of fossil fuels,…
Fossil Fuels Shine Light of Hope in Africa
By embracing their oil and gas reserves, African leaders are not destroying the planet; they are saving their people.
The ‘Leading UK Scientists’ Letter Urging Abandonment of North Sea is Ideology Masquerading as Science
From Tilak’s Substack Tilak Doshi The Financial Times reported on Good Friday that “more than 65 leading UK scientists” had signed an open letter, published as a Google Doc, urging the Government to abandon…
India Helps US Repair ‘Green’ Wreckage
For the first time in half a century, the United States will witness the construction of a brand-new oil refinery. Located at the Port of Brownsville, this facility promises to…
Miliband Expected to Block North Sea Oil Drilling
The Energy Secretary is understood to be resisting the development of Rosebank, the UK’s largest untapped oil field, estimated to contain up to 300 million barrels of oil.
Europe’s Hormuz Armageddon
Its Father Jupiter, not Mother Gaia, that the haughty Europeans should have prayed to.
The Iran War Reveals Who Is Living In A Fantasy World
Whether you like it or hate it, the war in Iran has definitely had the effect of exposing some of the ridiculous fantasies in the world to a serious dose…
Looming Aviation Fuel Shortages
Little wonder, when oil refineries are punished with carbon taxes, electric car mandates and the Net Zero energy transition.
The Biased Oxford University Report That Claims Renewables Are Cheaper Than Gas
Until green ideology is exorcised from the Westminster bubble and woke universities, the climate idiocracy will continue to shape policy — and ordinary British families will continue to pay the…
Great News: Oil Majors Are Backing Down on “Green” Energy Projects
It is a good thing that these massive multinational companies are reducing their investment in green boondoggles, even if that divestment is only by a third or so. More money…
Starmer: It’s Up to Miliband Whether We Drill in North Sea
Sir Keir Starmer has said it is Ed Miliband’s decision whether Britain drills for oil and gas in the North Sea, claiming he has no power in the matter.
The Strait of Hormuz Crisis Shows the World Still Runs on Fossil Fuels
The world will remain vulnerable to disruptions in oil and gas supply. And few places embody that vulnerability more clearly than the Strait of Hormuz. A sliver of water in…
Will Canada unshackle itself in time? The global energy and minerals window of opportunity
Canada has to deal with some of the regulatory calcification we’ve let build up for some time, before we will be an attractive investment destination. We are still paralyzed by…
Rosebank Could Be Producing By Autumn If Miliband Says Yes
Gas from Rosebank would be used in the UK and contribute to around 1 per cent of national needs.
Russian Oil Poised To Flood World Markets As Trump Admin Lifts Sanctions
Over 130 million barrels of Russian crude oil remained on the sea as of March 6, according to a report by Kpler.
Energy Dominance 2.0: Permian Basin Edition
Guest “Making American ‘Shale’ Greater Again” by David Middleton As noted in a previous post, the Permian Basin would rank 4th in the world in natural gas production, if US…
Breakthrough! Houston Chronicle Publishes Non-alarmist Climate Op-ed
My Houston Chronicle op-ed came out in the Print edition last Sunday. This breaks a decade-plus-long drought when the Progressive Left Chronicle ignored my submissions.