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Some commentary is so well organized and on point it deserves a wide hearing.  At this blog we tend to look down the road at what might be coming, but.  We have to get down the road in the meantime.  John C. Felmy of the API has thought this through and managed to compress the main concepts with language that anyone can use to good effect.  More surprising is the text that follows... more

Darrell Kosakewich was investigating new ways to settle the tailings ponds created by oilsands mining operations.  As he was investigating it occurred to him that discharging an electrically charged emulsion would settle out and release the entrained water and oil. Then the first time he froze a coal sample and it shattered into a piece, that’s the ‘Eureka!’ moment,  “Well,... more

Somewhere in Kern County, California there is the state’s biggest oil find in 35 years.  Experts say that might stimulate new exploration in California and the U.S A few years ago, Occidental Petroleum Corp. executives told investors that an oil bonanza awaited any outfit that could “crack the code” of California’s seismically fractured underground.  It seems... more

Presidential advisor James Jones met this month with Brazilian officials to talk about lending billions of dollars to Brazil’s state-owned oil company, Petrobras, to finance exploration of the huge offshore discovery in Brazil’s Tupi oil field in the Santos Basin near Rio de Janeiro.  No joke, the loan been confirmed by the Wall Street Journal. Angry yet? It’s further... more