In winter afternoons and evenings coal fired power plants are running >90% of capacity for 64% of the time. Fig 1: NSW generation by fuel type July 2025 https://explore.openelectricity.org.au/energy/nsw1/?range=30d&interval=1d&view=discrete-time&group=Detailed Coal dominates with…
Australian petrol import dependency April 2025 Update
Fig 1: Australian petrol imports We can see that petrol imports from Singapore almost tripled after 2020/21 when the Wuhan virus hit. However, Singapore’s refinery output has not increased. Fig 2: Singapore…
Australian Jet fuel imports are 50 per cent dependent on Middle East oil
This is a continuation of a series of articles on Australia’s fuel imports which have fundamentally increased due to the closure of local refineries and also growing demand from very high rates…
Australian diesel import dependency on Middle East oil Update April 2025
In this 3rd post on Australian diesel imports, the focus is on the dependency on Middle East oil as Israel and Iran have started to attack their oil refineries. Fig 26: Iran…
Australian diesel imports update January 2025 data. Preparing for surprises in the Strait of Taiwan (part 2)
In part 1 of this post we looked at various Taiwan scenarios of US think tanks. https://crudeoilpeak.info/australian-diesel-imports-update-january-2025-data-preparing-for-surprises-in-the-strait-of-taiwan So what does all this mean for Australia’s fuel imports from East Asia? Diesel from…
Australian diesel imports update January 2025 data. Preparing for surprises in the Strait of Taiwan?
Diesel is the most important fuel to sustain the economy. Fig 1: Australian Diesel consumption has been increasing on a long-term trend Fig 2: Australian refinery production of diesel in decline Only…
Post-Covid crude production in world outside the US still lower than end 2018
This is part 2 of the previous post of 4 Mar 2025 https://crudeoilpeak.info/us-shale-oil-seems-to-cover-up-peaking-crude-oil-production-in-the-rest-of-the-world-since-2018 In this post we focus on the period 2016 – Oct 2024 This is a graph showing the changes…
US shale oil seems to cover up peaking crude oil production in the rest of the world since 2018
Update on incremental world crude and condensate oil production Oct 2024 What happened to peak oil after conventional crude oil started to peak in 2005 at 74 mb/d? Here is a graph…
Another hot windless day in NSW and coal power plants were running at 90 per cent available capacity after sunset
Tuesday, 4th February 2025 Fig 1: Temperatures in the Sydney basin 4 Feb 2025 Fig 2: 2 price spikes up to $ 5,600 /Mh in the afternoon and evening The first spike…
Queensland heat wave on 22 Jan 2025 caused lack of reserves LOR2 and high spot prices for 2 hrs
A Queensland scorcher on 22 Jan 2025 caused lack of reserves LOR2 and high spot prices $14,000/MWh for 2 hrs Fig 1: Australia’s synoptic chart for 22 Jan 2025 Townsville 35ºC, Mackay…