After last week’s dramatic episode of rallies and UN speeches, I sense the climate change narrative has shifted (again). And it’s shifted into uncomfortable territory – culpability for our planet’s malaise is crossing into the domain of personal lifestyle. Your lifestyle. I think the turning point was late last year in Poland. That’s when and […]
Over the weekend, exposed oil fields and processing facilities in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia were bombed by drones. Suddenly, almost 6 million barrels-a-day of the world’s oil supply was taken offline. We haven’t seen this scale of disruption in 40 years, not since the Arab Oil Embargo and the Iran-Iraq war. What can we […]
Cheap, clean, safe and secure. Whether it’s petroleum products, natural gas or electricity, that’s how we like our energy. But we’re never really satisfied, are we? Our wallets feel picked by the monthly utility bill. Only a perpetual motion machine will ever be clean enough. And we question safety over extremely low-probability events. I’m being […]
It’s time to close the spreadsheets and think differently about the world of energy. A couple of weeks ago, the International Energy Agency (IEA) released their 176-page report titled, World Energy Investment 2019. I will spare you the read and take you to a quote, buried on page 30 that pretty much sums up what […]
