Cline Shale – another name you want to learn – “The shale rush has just...
One of the biggest reasons that Peak Oil is so astoundingly foolish is the assumption that there will never, ever be any more oil found under the ground. Another huge assumption is that those dirty,...
View ArticleCalifornia has two-thirds of the shale oil reserves in the U.S.
The New York Times noticed the amount of shale reserves in California and wrote a major article: Vast Oil Reserve May Now Be Within Reach, and Battle Heats Up. The billion dollar question – do we in...
View ArticleOutbreak of common sense about fracking in California legislature and what...
A bill to ban fracking was defeated in the California Assembly week before last at a vote of 37-24 with 18 abstentions. That method of getting oil out of the ground has been used here in California for...
View ArticleSurvey of shale oil; also the Peak Oil Myth – #26
Matt Ridley provides an overview of the flood of fracked shale oil in his post, The dash for shale oil will shake the world. He points to The Shale Oil Boom: a US Phenomenon, a newly released report...
View ArticleIt’s getting harder to keep track of all the new big oil plays – add SCOOP to...
Here’s another field to watch – the Southern Central Oklahoma Oil Province, or SCOOP. Motley Fool is asking Could This Oil Field Be the Next Bakken? According to the article, Continental Resources says...
View ArticleAnother major oil play to keep an eye on: The...
Okay, I’m using a very loose definition of field. But check out the following graph of combined oil production from those five states. We’re talking production level of super-giant fields. Graph is...
View ArticleImpact from another field in the shadows of Permian and Eagle Ford
The team at University of Texas San Antonio’s Center for Community and Business Research are busy, busy, busy. The team just released a new study: Economic Impact of Oil and Gas Activities in the West...
View ArticleMore good stuff on the open frontiers – 3-20-14
A few articles on technology, energy, and publishing that are worth a read and a brief comment. Reusable first stages of rockets, several updates on Yutu (Chinese lunar rover), commercial drones,...
View ArticleThe shale revolution shown in a graph
If you want to see what a radical change is underway in the energy field, check out this graph of combined oil production from the three biggest plays, Bakken, Eagle Ford, and Permian: That’s from...
View ArticleProduction in 3 biggest US oil fields – Aug. ’14
(Photo by James Ulvog. Four wells on a pad was big news only a short while ago. Now 4 is a small site.) Only 10 oil fields have surpassed a production level of one million barrels a day. Currently...
View ArticleMore news from the open frontier of energy – 7/17
Amazing things are happening at the energy open frontier. Vaca Muerta is a huge shale gas field in Argentina that I doubt will be a big player anytime soon. US passes Russia as largest oil & gas...
View ArticleTwo new fields found where the energy wizards didn’t realize there were...
There are two big finds in the last few weeks of fields with a few billion barrels of recoverable oil each where the petroleum engineers didn’t realize there were billions of barrels of oil. Still...
View ArticleAnother 20 billion barrels of oil. What Peak Oil? – #49
Oh, by the way, the geology wizards just discovered another twenty billion barrels of recoverable oil where the wizards knew something existed but had no idea how much. Twenty billion barrels. Billion,...
View ArticlePossible new technology to extract oil shale – Peak Oil #50
Here’s another brain stretcher for you in the realm of the open frontier in energy – how about using microwave to tease oil shale out of the ground? 11/4 – Oxy – Move Over Fracking, There’s a New...
View ArticleWhat Peak Oil? I’m having trouble keeping up with all the billion barrel finds.
Yeah, I’m still new to this effort of watching the energy field. One of the things that still amazes me is the frequency with which the geology wizards find another billion or so barrels of recoverable...
View ArticleThe massive economic and environmental impact of fracking.
The impact of fracking is massive. Large increases in production of natural gas and crude oil has created a long list of favorable economic and environment impacts. 7/6/17 – Victor Davis Hanson at...
View ArticleEnergy update
A few articles that caught my interest over the last months on energy issues: Another new field with one and half or two billion barrels of oil that not even the energy wizards were sure was there – Oh...
View ArticleNorth Dakota oil production expected to accelerate this year. Also two more...
Latest guess, from someone who has a clue about such issues, on where production is going in North Dakota is somewhere around 1.5M or 1.6M barrels a day late this year or early next year. Huge finds...
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