Britain is heading for a homegrown energy crisis, according to a sobering article in the Economist magazine (How long till the lights go out, 7 August).
The piece describes how the country’s existing ‘hotch-potch’ of energy sources will not be able to cope when economic growth resumes.
It paints a bleak picture: North Sea gas is running [...]

Tags: Energy, Energy security

What a difference a day (or two) makes. Having seen the devastation that Gustav wreaked on Cuba (and Haiti), I watched the forecastors’ projections on Sunday morning with a sense of foreboding and déjà vu. Almost three years to the day after the devastation of Katrina, Gustav was set to traverse the Gulf of Mexico, Cat [...]

Tags: Energy, Gulf of Mexico, Gustav, Henry Hub, Hurricanes, LOOP, New Orleans

 
Tropical Storm Dolly is heading for the Mexico \ Texas border this morning and has prompted a rash of evacuations of non-essential staff from offshore platforms (see here, here), although currently production is not expected to be affected. The National Hurricane Centre’s (NHC) central forecast is for landfall around Brownesville, TX although some models put [...]

Tags: Dolly, Energy, Hurricanes