The supply chain of fuels and products refined from raw crude oil will face severe imbalances, most likely leading to higher costs and shortages for future generations.
Category: Oil and Gas
Keystone XL Rebranded as “Keystone Light” in Trump’s Push for North American Energy Security
This project is a leaner, faster, and more litigation-resistant project that reuses idle pipe, threads existing corridors, avoids reservation land, and is racing the clock to lock in steel-in-the-ground before…
UAE’s OPEC Exit: Pragmatic Oil Policy, Not ‘Stranded Assets’ Panic
The UAE’s departure, the largest and most consequential since the cartel’s founding, weakens OPEC+ materially and reputationally, but it does so because of internal rifts, US supply abundance and regional…
What Fuel Crisis? New Aussie Call to Tax Fossil Fuel Giants for Climate Damage
Locals ignored the advice of experts in beach sand erosion management. Now the council is blaming fossil fuel companies for the mess.
How the Free Market Cancelled BP’s Renewable Energy Push
Adam Smith’s invisible hand vs the Renewable Energy Movement.
Federal Power Meets California Resistance in Santa Ynez Oil Restart Battle
President Trump issued a Defense Product Act-based executive order to get oil flowing again off the California coast. State judge basically ruled a previous California court injunction against offshore oil…
Why the UK and EU Keep Doubling Down on Net Zero Dogma in the Face of Spiralling Economic Dysfunction
Freely chosen economic illiteracy, like other ideological afflictions, appears immune to correction by experience. The hangman’s noose may concentrate some minds, but in Westminster and Brussels, the noose is worn…
IEA Head Fatih Birol: UK should forego North Sea Oil Expansion Because Nobody Needs Oil and Gas
“… There will be a significant boost to renewables and nuclear power and a further shift towards a more electrified future …”
Activist Yorkshire Councillor Demands the British Government make Fossil Fuel Extraction More Difficult
North Yorkshire councillor and anti-fracking activist Steve Mason has demanded a little known loophole in Britain’s fracking ban be closed.
Electrify Everything Policies in the Aussie State of Victoria are Breaking the Grid
Someone forgot to build the grid capacity to support the gas replacement policy.
The Increasing Sustainability of Conventional Energy: Shell Offshore
Major technical and economic advancements are happening within the fossil-fuel industries, not outside of it. The stock energy age–oil, natural gas, and coal age–is still young. The future belongs to the efficient,…
Monbiot: Green Energy Advocates are Now Pragmatic Patriots Because of Iran and Trump
“Who’d have thought a fossil-fuel shill like Trump would be the one to spark a green revolution?”
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.
Tensions in the Strait of Hormuz force us to reconsider the material benefits of fossil fuels
Energy “REALITY” tells us that we need refineries to convert crude oil into usable transportation fuels and products.
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.