Archive for the 'Offshore' Category



No one would like to consider their job to be an oxymoron, essentially a contradiction in terms.
But that is what you could describe the job title for the editor of a new online magazine called “Greening of oil magazine”.
The new mag says it will be dedicated to “tracking energy’s environmental footprint”, but you could argue [...]

We are used to calling Big Oil hypocrites, saying one thing and doing something completely different.
But yesterday, it was their turn to stick the label on the politicians during an influential Senate hearing into the emotive subject of off-shore drilling.
Executives from two major oil companies told Congress they were hypocrites for locking up offshore resources, [...]

And so it goes on. We may be able to send people to the moon but we are not able to stop a simple leak on an oil rig.
Over two months after Thailand’s PTTEP’s well sprung a leak in the Timor Sea, the oil continues to pour into the sea at a rate of some [...]

The joke going round Europe is that the only reason that President Obama won the Nobel Peace prize is that he is not President Bush. It’s not who he is but who he is not, that matters.
He might not be President Bush but Obama is continuing the mistakes of the Bush era. In fact he [...]

Anyone who regularly reads this blog  – or any other oil-related one – will know that the oil majors are running out of places to find oil.
That’s why countries with huge reserves such as Iraq and Libya are seen as so important.
The vast majority of known reserves are locked up in the Middle East, or [...]