On 11 June OPEC held its 165th meeting in Vienna, and the organization’s 12 members decided to maintain its production volume of 30 million barrels of oil per day (Mb/d). The meeting is reported in the OPEC Bulletin 6 They…
On 4 June I participated with Patrik Jotun, (a researcher and analyst at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs), in a symposium organized by the Green Liberals with the theme, “Environmental and Climate Policy in the Shadow of Developments in Russia…
The Oil & Gas Journal has published an article with the headline, “Chesapeake mulls spinoff, the sale of oil field services division.” The article is especially interesting since Chesapeake is one of the largest companies in fracking. On Chesapeake Energy…
For the past 100 days, I have visited shale formations with oil and gas from Amarillo in the north to Laredo and Eagle Ford in the south, from Odessa and the Permian Basin in the west to Nacogdoches and the…
For the second time a dialogue has been organized during the Nobel Prize week, and this time it was in Gothenburg. The idea of the event is that one should take advantage of the unique opportunity that some Nobel Prize…
On December 9th, the day before the Nobel Prizes are handed out in Stockholm; there is a “Nobel Week Dialogue” in Gothenburg. This year’s theme is “Exploring the Future of Energy, ” and participating Nobel Laureates are presented by the…
The largest oilfield in the USA south of Canada is said to be the East Texas Oilfield. (The largest oilfield in the USA is Prudho Bay in Alaska).Since I began my research on oil in 2003 my mental image of…
World Energy Outlook 2013 By Kjell Aleklett Uppsala University Department of Geosciences and Visiting professor at University of Texas at Austin Department of Petroleum and Geosystems Engineering On 12 November the International Energy Agency (IEA) released this year’s edition of…
The fact that they have now begun to produce oil from Kashagan and that we know the project costs are $48 billion gives me a reason to look at a report that Goldman Sachs presented in March 2012, ”360 projects…
Network Oil & Gas (NOG) was formed in Sweden 12 years ago. It is a forum for training, exchange of experience and debate on issues that affect the use and significance of fossil fuels. During a year, NOG aims to…