It’s not quite a Carl Sagan commentary, but one of the giant stars of the oil and gas firmament has burnt just a little too brightly in recent years, and is looking to conserve some of …
Articles By Stuart Hampton
Billions and billions of… dollars in asset sales. ConocoPhillips
by Stuart Hampton, March 16, 2010, 8:32 amOil is not calming the waters in the Falkands
by Stuart Hampton, March 2, 2010, 12:07 pmPrompted by a renewed search for oil, an old geopolitical conflict is beginning to heat up again.
The place: the windblown Falkland Islands in the South Atlantic. The protagonists: the far away UK (which …
Safety Glasses. I’ll drink to that.
by Stuart Hampton, February 22, 2010, 8:42 amI am taking a time out from my energy coverage on this blog to draw your attention to a crisis in my homeland … and a proposed solution.
Little did I realize, during all those years of quaffing pints …
The Tower of Power
by Stuart Hampton, February 9, 2010, 9:17 amDon Quixote tilted at windmills.
Today, some green energy advocates have another quixotic dream involving wind turbines and solar power — the large scale generation of electric power through solar energy regenerators.
Imagine the scene: a …
Houston, we have a problem. Oil spill in nearby Port Arthur.
by Stuart Hampton, January 26, 2010, 2:06 pmEver since the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 dealt a punishing public relations blow to Exxon Mobil, the company has been working hard to improve safety and prevent other oil …
Global warming and the methane nightmare
by Stuart Hampton, January 14, 2010, 9:13 amIn a horror movie I saw as a young man, there was a scene in which a large cargo ship sailed across a patch of ocean water that suddenly became pockmarked with bubbles. The bubbles …
All’s well that ends in oil wells. The Saudis are bullish on the future of oil.
by Stuart Hampton, December 31, 2009, 2:38 pmCap and trade talk, green energy expansion, new, unconventional oil and gas reserve exploration, and economic recession notwithstanding, Saudi Aramco is confident that the future will entail a growing …
The Oyster and the Anaconda — A Story of Waves and Tides
by Stuart Hampton, December 15, 2009, 9:11 am
The Oyster and the Anaconda is not one of Grimm’s fairy tales, or an Edward Lear nonsense story. Neither grim or nonsense, the Oyster and the Anaconda herald the good news …
Worse things happen at sea — another oil tanker hijacked
by Stuart Hampton, November 30, 2009, 3:28 pmA few days ago Somali pirates hijacked the 300,000-ton, Greek-owned oil supertanker Maran Centaurus about 800 miles off the coast of Somalia. The ship was fully laden with 2 million barrels of oil on …
Not just a Shell game — an alternative energy strategy
by Stuart Hampton, November 18, 2009, 2:21 pmIt’s easy to stereotype Big Oil companies (BP, Royal Dutch Shell, Exxon Mobil, and others) as old-school oil and gas producers, with a long history of pushing dirty, …
