Sunday, March 3, 2013
The Iditarod is running
For those who follow these things, this year's Iditarod race has started. Alaskan papers are best for following the race.
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Waterjetting Index
After writing about Waterjet Technology for a couple of years at this site I have created an index, hopefully this will be updated monthly and can be found at: Waterjet Index .
The Archive of Oil and Gas and Coal Posts
About ten years ago I began to write a blog, and after a time that transformed into co-founding The Oil Drum. Move on a few years, and at the end of 2008 I turned from being an editor there to this blog, although the OGPSS series continued to be posted, on Sundays, at TOD as their weekly Tech Talk. Some of the industrial technical descriptions of oilwell formation and coal mining are relatively timeless and useful, and so are listed below.
Along the way I became similarly cynical about some of the facts being bruited about Climate Change, and did a little study, which is documented here as the State Temperature Analysis Series. It showed that the UHI is real and that there is a log:normal relationship between population and temperature (which is also related to altitude and latitude). You can read the individual state studies, which are listed below. There will still be the occasional post on this topic.
Oil and Gas Production Sunday Series
- OGPSS 13-upper third tier oil producers
- OGPSS 12- lower second tier oil producers
- OGPSS 11-upper second tier oil producers
- OGPSS 10-world top oil producers
- OGPSS 9-Oil Tankers and the Egyptian crisis
- OGPSS 8-Venezuela's reserves and the Chinese
- OGPSS 7- Venezuelan natural gas production
- OGPSS 6 - Venezuelan heavy oil production
- OGPSS 5 - API gravity, refinery gains & Venezuela
- OGPSS 4 - Pipelines
- OGPSS 3 - NGLs and Condensate
- OGPSS 2 - Oil Fungibility
- OGPSS 1 - Introduction
Posts
Units and Conversions
One of the problems in following stories in different countries is that they use different units and symbols. This can be a bit confusing, and so, where I can, I will try and standardize on the unit of barrel/day, or bd for oil. I will also use a thousand cubic ft kcf for natural gas. Prices will also be standardized, when I can, in $/kcf for natural gas, $/barrel for oil, and $/gallon for gasoline.
In larger units volumes a thousand barrels a day becomes 1 kbd and a million barrels a day becomes 1 mbd. For natural gas a million cu ft per day will be 1 mcf. (In many quotes this has appeared as 1 MMcf).
A billion cu. ft. is 1,000 mcf. Note that a cubic foot of gas produces 1,030 Btus - so to simplify 1 million Btu's is approximately 1 kcf, or 28.3 cu.m. of natural gas equivalent.
A ton of oil is 7.33 barrels. (Mainly used in Eastern Europe).
Since not all posts before this show these units - note that this change happened on March 3, 2009.
Useful and Informative links
- TOD's Euan Mearns
- The Oil Drum
- The FT Energy Source
- The Energy Bulletin
- Ron Patterson
- Robert Rapier
- Our Finite World (Gail Tverberg)
- Oil Price
- Map of Renewable Energy
- Luis de Sousa
- Jerome a Paris
- Icelandic Volcanoes and Earthquakes
- Energy Tomorrow
- Energy Statistics (IEA)
- Energy Statistics (EIA)
- Energy shortage
- Energy Export Information
- Early Warning - Stuart Staniford
- CC-Chiefio (E.M. Smith)
- CC- Icecap
- CC - Watts Up With That?
- CC - Real Climate
- CC - No Frakking Consensus (Donna Laframboise)
- CC - Climate Etc (Judith Curry)
- CC - Climate Debate Daily
- CC - Climate Audit (Steve McIntyre)
- CC - Bishop Hill (Andrew Montford)
- CC - BBC Environmental
- Bleakonomy
- Arthur Berman
- Aleklett of ASPO
- 3000 Quads (Tom Fuller)
Blog Archive
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- OGPSS - future natural gas supplies and Cyprus
- Waterjetting 7c - higher pressure washing with power
- OGPSS - The EXXonMobil future - a review
- Waterjetting 7b - more insight into jet structure
- OGPSS - The Pope, Poverty and Power
- Waterjetting 7a - An intro to jet structure
- The California Urban Heat Island Effect
- OGPSS - Venezuela after Hugo Chavez
- Waterjetting 6d - Plywood and Pork, and jet effect...
- The Iditarod is running
- Transient publicity
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Followers
State Temperature Analysis
- Alabama combined temperatures
- Arizona combined temperatures
- Arkansas USHCN temperatures
- California
- California Time of Observation corrected (TOBS)
- Colorado
- Colorado TOBS
- Connecticut combined temperatures
- Delaware combined temperatures
- Florida combined temperatures
- Georgia combined temperatures
- Idaho combined temperatures
- Illinois
- Illinois TOBS
- Indiana
- Indiana TOBS
- Iowa combined temperatures
- Kansas combined temperatures
- Kentucky combined temperatures
- Louisiana USHCN temperatures
- Maine
- Maine TOBS
- Maryland combined temperatures
- Massachusetts Combined temperatures
- Michigan combined temperatures
- Minnesota combined temperatures
- Mississippi combined temperatures
- Missouri
- Missouri rain
- Missouri TOBS
- Montana combined temperatures
- Nebraska combined temperatures
- Nevada
- Nevada TOBS
- New Hampshire combined temperatures
- New Jersey combined temperatures
- New Mexico combined temperatures
- New York Combined temperatures
- North Carolina combined temperatures
- North Dakota combined temperatures
- Ohio Combined temperatures
- Oklahoma combined temperatures
- Oregon combined temperatures
- Pennsylvania Combined temperatures
- Rhode Island combined temperatures
- South Carolina combined temperatures
- South Dakota combined temperatures
- Tennessee combined temperatures
- Texas combined temperatures
- Utah combined temperatures
- Vermont combined temperatures
- Virginia combined temperatures
- Washington combined temperatures
- West Virginia combined temperatures
- Wisconsin combined temperatures
- Wyoming combined temperatures
Tech Talks mainly on Oil and Gas
- Oil and Gas 39 - Drilling Rigs and Drilling Ships
- Oil and Gas 38 - The Future of Oil Shale
- Oil and Gas 37 - Ecapsulating oil shale for refining
- Oil and Gas 36 - Heating oil shale in place
- Oil and Gas 35 - Retorting oil shale in place
- Oil and Gas 34 - nuclear stimulation of gas wells
- Oil and Gas 33 - Nuclear power and oil shale
- Oil and Gas 32 - Conventional oil shale mining
- Oil and Gas 31 - An intro to oil shale
- Oil and Gas 30 - the THAI process for oil sands
- Oil and Gas 29 - SAGD - well production from oil sands
- Oil and Gas 28 - an intro to oil sand mining
- Oil and Gas 27 - more on refining
- Oil and Gas 26 - Introduction to Refining
- Oil and Gas 25 - more on GOSPs
- Oil and Gas 24 - Produced water and GOSPs
- Oil and Gas 23 - Shales, gas and water
- Oil and Gas 22 - Offshore drilling rigs/ships
- Oil and Gas 21 - workover equipment
- Oil and Gas 20 - cracking and fracing wells
- Oil and Gas 19 - Horizontal gas wells
- Oil and Gas 18 - Gas shale development
- Oil and Gas 17 - down-hole motors
- Oil and Gas 16 - Deviating the well
- Oil and Gas 15 - Abqaiq an example calculation
- Oil and Gas 14 - Carbonates and chalk
- Oil and Gas 13 - Waterfloods to increase flow
- Oil and Gas 12 - Permeability and Initial Production
- Oil and Gas 11 - Completion and Perforation
- Oil and Gas 10 - The Drilling Rig
- Oil and Gas 09 - well pressures and blowouts
- Oil and Gas 08 - well casing
- Oil and Gas 07 - some exotic methods of drilling
- Oil and Gas 06 - energy costs in drilling
- Oil and Gas 05 - drilling mud basics
- Oil and Gas 04 - drilling with diamonds
- Oil and Gas 03 - Basic rock drilling for oil
- Oil and Gas 02 - hydrofracing a well
- Oil and Gas 01 - Why oilwell production falls
- Geothermal 1 - some basics
- Burning wood 1 - coppicing and pollarding
Tech Talks mainly on Coal
- Coal 27 - In situ Combustion of coal
- Coal 26 - Scrubbers and baghouses
- Coal 25 - Jevons Paradox
- Coal 24 - Coal Reserves Revisited
- Coal 23 - Highwall mining
- Coal 22 - Surface blasting of coal and rock
- Coal 21 - Surface mining shovels
- Coal 20 - Freezing rock to seal and strengthen it
- Coal 19 - Grouting rock to seal and strengthen it
- Coal 18 - Flexible roof supports and Shotcrete
- Coal 17 - Support with rock bolts
- Coal 16 - Mine tunnel support II
- Coal 15 - Longwall with plows and Hydrominer
- Coal 14 - Longwall using shearers
- Coal 13 - Longwall with hydraulic power
- Coal 12 - Longwall roof control
- Coal 11 - Pre-mechanized longwall
- Coal 10 - Earliest longwall
- Coal 9 - Robbing pillars
- Coal 8 - Mechanized room and pillar mining
- Coal 7 - Underground coal transport
- Coal 6 - tunnel support with concrete and steel
- Coal 5 - The transition to pit ponies
- Coal 4 - Coal reserve considerations
- Coal 3 - Manually mining underground
- Coal 2 - Early mining and transport
- Coal 1 - The formation of coal
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