Here we go again. Another US President asks Saudi Arabia to pump more oil, despite the so-called US shale oil revolution. Fig 1: Is a tweet enough to make Saudi Arabia open…
Author: matt
Matt Mushalik (MEAust, CPEng)
Sydney
Peak oil in Asia Pacific (part 1)
This post uses data released by the BP Statistical Review in June 2018 https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/statistical-review-of-world-energy.html Oil production seems to have left its bumpy 6 year long (2010-2015) plateau of 8.4 mb/d and is…
Peak oil in Venezuela: El Furrial oil field
We see the impact of the conventional oil peak in Venezuela. As an example let’s look at the El-Furrial field. Fig 1: Not La-Hora-Zero (yet) but low voter turn-out for the May…
Update on Australian oil import vulnerability May 2018
As the US has withdrawn from the Iran nuclear deal and tensions increase between Israel and Iran there can be no doubt that this will impact on oil supplies. Fig 1: Iran’s…
NSW fuel consumption and high immigration not compatible with CO2 reduction pathways
On 12/4/2018 a briefing session of the Greater Sydney Commission (GSC) on recently released planning documents https://www.greater.sydney/greater-sydney-region-plan took place in the Parramatta Novotel. According to the GSC establishment Act 2015 No 56…
NSW coal power maxed out in hot summer (part 2)
Part 2 Eraring, Mt Piper, Vales Pt Introduction: The NSW government is selling Snowy Hydro to the Federal Government, thereby demonstrating beyond doubt that it is abrogating its duty of care to…
NSW coal power maxed out in hot summer (part 1)
14/3/2018 Part 1 Bayswater and Liddell power plants Introduction The Australian public has no idea how tight Australia’s power generation is in hot summers. A recent 4 corners program on population growth driven…
Australia’s east coast solar generation is replacing coal by only 2% in late summer
This is an analysis of late summer. Data are taken from Open NEM: http://opennem.org.au/# The graphs in this post are a bit different from those on the above website Fig 1: Generation…
Will Australia have a strategic oil reserve before it is too late? (part 2)
In part 1 we talked about what action the government is taking to bring Australia back to the IEA 90 days oil stock requirement. What was done so far This website contains…
Australian fuel imports from Asia are going sky high while non-compliance with IEA stock requirements continues (part 1)
From time to time the media takes some interest: Low emergency oil reserves ‘now pose a danger to security’ 16/2/2018 Australia’s failure to meet emergency oil reserves now posed a national security…