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NSW coal power maxed out in hot summer (part 2)
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Howard’s Energy Policy Failure 2004
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Sydney would peak at 4.9 million with zero net overseas migration
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Exxon plans to produce gas close to China’s 9 dash line claim
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Sydney mismanages transition to driver-less single deck trains (part 2)
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Sydney plans to dismantle rail infrastructure built just 6 years ago (part 1)
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Australian Jet fuel imports are 50 per cent dependent on Middle East oil
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Australian diesel import dependency on Middle East oil Update April 2025
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Australian diesel imports update January 2025 data. Preparing for surprises in the Strait of Taiwan (part 2)
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Australian diesel imports update January 2025 data. Preparing for surprises in the Strait of Taiwan?
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Post-Covid crude production in world outside the US still lower than end 2018
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US shale oil seems to cover up peaking crude oil production in the rest of the world since 2018
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Another hot windless day in NSW and coal power plants were running at 90 per cent available capacity after sunset
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Queensland heat wave on 22 Jan 2025 caused lack of reserves LOR2 and high spot prices for 2 hrs
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Load shedding in New South Wales 27 November 2024 (part 4)
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Load shedding in New South Wales 27 November 2024 (part 3)
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U.S. Storage Filling Up with Unaccounted-For Oil
Posted on October 7, 2016 | No CommentsThis is a joint post with Art Berman, a geological consultant based in Houston, Texas, and may be seen also on his website http://www.artberman.com/ U.S. crude oil storage is filling up […] -
Australian public broadcaster a true believer in US shale oil supremacy
Posted on September 27, 2016 | No CommentsIn yesterday’s 7 pm news ABC TV business presenter Alan Kohler got carried away with the news that the US drilling rig count increased by 2 rigs in the last […] -
Incremental crude production update August 2016
Posted on September 11, 2016 | No CommentsOPEC Fig 1: OPEC’s incremental crude oil production Incremental production for each country is the production above the minimum production for the period Jan 2000 – May 2016 (the latest […] -
China’s oil peak 45 years after the US peak
Posted on September 5, 2016 | No CommentsFig 1: Oil crisis in China like in 2005? No. By order: Free roads for G20 in Hangzhou https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/31/china-hangzhou-propaganda-facelift-g20-summit Strategically published only days before the G20 summit the Wall Street […] -
Oil reserves and resources as function of oil price
Posted on August 19, 2016 | No CommentsBP Statistical Review: proved reserves not so proven We start with what most people will do, the BP Statistical Review (latest version June 2016). The review’s Excel file contains a […] -
Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s exciting energy security in Australia
Posted on July 7, 2016 | No CommentsA miracle happened 1 minute to 12. Two journos asked energy security questions at last week’s National Press Club in which Australia’s Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull was given a last […] -
80 % of Australian budget deficit comes from lower company tax revenue after GFC (part 3)
Posted on June 28, 2016 | No CommentsIn this part on the budget 2016 series we have a look at the federal revenue: Fig 32: Time series of federal tax revenue Income tax was growing strongly at […] -
Peak Oil in Asia and oil import trends (part 2)
Posted on June 25, 2016 | No CommentsWe pick up the question from part 1: Fig 11: Homework for governments Let’s have a look where all the net imports into Asia have come from in the past: […] -
Peak Oil in Asia (part 1)
Posted on June 20, 2016 | No CommentsAccording to data recently published in BP’s 2016 Statistical Review Asian oil production remained at around 8.3 mb/d for 4 years now. Fig 1: Asian oil production We see the […] -
Australian budget 2016 underestimates role of oil (part 2)
Posted on June 7, 2016 | No CommentsIn part 1 we found that Treasury did not really explain why global growth is slower than expected given the oil price drop. We looked at some parameters like employment, […]