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The Oil Drum staff wishes a merry Christmas to all in our readership community. We are on a brief hiatus in this period, and will be back with our regular publications early in the new year. In the meantime we present the...

The Tech Talks of the last few months have followed a path of looking in a relatively realistic manner at crude oil production with emphasis on that coming from the United States and Russia, as well as Saudi Arabia, the current...

The OGPSS posts of the last few months have been following a path of looking in a relatively realistic manner at crude oil production with emphasis on that coming from the United States, Russia and Saudi Arabia – the...

This series of posts has just completed a review of the different regions of Russian oil production, with the conclusion that while Russia may maintain current production levels of around 10.4 mbd for a short while, it faces...

In the past few weeks I have been looking at the potential for sustainability in oil and gas production in Russia, now at a predicted recent peak of 10.36 mbd, when condensate is included. But the question increasingly becomes...

In the last post on Russian oil production, I discussed the amounts of oil produced from Western Siberia, the region with the highest current production, which in its prime contained the second largest producing oilfield...

In the last post on Russian oil production I discussed the amounts of oil that have been produced from Western Siberia, the region that currently produces the most, and which in its prime contained the second largest producing...

In the last post on the oil and gas fields of the Northern Caucasus, I commented that one of the reasons that these older oil and gas fields were being further developed was due to the introduction of advanced Western techniques...

When the topic of Peak Oil is raised, one of the first responses that is often heard from those trying to explain why a peak isn’t going to happen, at least in the short term, is that technology will come up with new...

“The Prize”, itself a prize-winning history of oil written by Daniel Yergin covers the growth of the oil industry around the world, and begins with the start of the industry in the United States...

Over the weekend I went to a talk on the promise of shale oil and gas, given by Sid Green, a friend and one of those members of the National Academy with Washington influence in regard to the future of the fossil fuel business...

Art Berman commented, in regard to my last post on the oil and gas reserves offshore Alaska, that at one time companies looked for an estimated 1 billion barrels in reserves, before they would consider starting down the...