About That Oil Price

Update: Crude closes at another record: Oil prices end at record high Light, sweet crude for November delivery rose $1.48 to settle at $87.61 a barrel on the New York Mercantile Exchange. Oil prices reached […]

Oil Tops $85

Update: Oil smashes $86 for the first time This week’s inventory report will be very interesting. If there is a significant build, the price could unravel quickly. If there is another surprise on the downside, […]

Answering Questions – Part II

OK, I think this finishes off the questions. Thanks to all who asked a question. I think this has been a productive exercise, and I hope you find my answers useful. I may do this […]

Answering Questions – Part I

Back in Aberdeen after some very interesting meetings in London, some of which I hope to be able to discuss in the not too distant future. I started working my way through the list of […]

The Floor is Open for Questions

I will be in London for the rest of the week without Internet access, but I thought I would open up the floor for any questions readers may have. Since I have withdrawn from the […]

r2dot.org is Live

A while back, Robert Rohatensky, of SHPEGS fame (and another “R-Squared”), asked if I would be interested in helping him set up a Slash-based energy site. The idea would be a place where anyone could […]

How Fast Can We Change?

How Will Events Unfold? Whether Peak Oil is on top of us now, or we have a few more years before the downturn, I think it is a problem that we will soon face. I […]

We Will Not Attack Iran

That the U.S. will attack Iran seems to be the conventional wisdom. I see a lot of people speculating that we will. Today, another article was published suggesting that high oil prices might lead us […]

Debunking Thomas Friedman

I am in Norway at the moment, but I ran across a story that I wanted to call attention to. It is the same thing I wrote about in The Problem with CAFE: Debunking auto […]

This Week in Petroleum 10-3-07

I almost never talk about distillates, which are hydrocarbons that are heavier than gasoline and are used to make diesel and heating oil. I don’t use heating oil or diesel, so I don’t think about […]