I did some English-language copywriting a few years back for Mubadala Energy, here in Indonesia. This might be of interest (lifted and summarized from Copilot):
Mubadala Energy have been active in Indonesia, operating offshore Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) in the Makassar Strait and northern Sumatra1 since 2004:
Ruby Gas Field, in the Makassar Strait, starting in 2013, with over 280 billion cubic feet of cumulative gas production.
West Sebuku Exploration Block: Mubadala Energy is the operator of the West Sebuku exploration block, which surrounds the Ruby gas field. They hold a 75.5% interest in this block.
Andaman Exploration Block: Mubadala Energy operates the Andaman I and South Andaman Gross Split PSCs with an 80% interest. In 2023, they announced a major gas discovery at the Layaran-1 exploration well in the South Andaman block, with the potential for over 6 trillion cubic feet of gas-in-place.
At the time I was associated wth Mubadala (owned by Abu Dhabi) 100% of the gas was being fed to a Government of Indonesia-owned fertilizer plant. Thus, were the gas to run out, and fertilizer production to taper off, poor harvests would eventually result in famine. This is a country rich in resources but as Fast Eddy pointed out, they are burning through them as fast as they can.
A nuclear engineer gives us his take on Thorium reactors which is all the rage now. As I suspected as he concludes, it's mostly hype and not the end all, be all.
Steve St Angelo at www.srsroccoreport.com (behind a paywall but occaisionally posts on You Tube) thinks the definitive decline begins 2026. We are facing the dreaded "Red Queen Syndrome" where to keep up NG production, we have to keep discovering and drilling new fields with longer (now at 3 miles) lateral lines, etc. The problem is, the depletion rate of newly completed wells is outpacing discovery, I think 40% depletion after just two years. We can't outrun the lighted fuse of depletion.
Kind of like the 2 year depreciation of the bitcoin mining machines (chips). They burn out a lot faster than the 5-10 year depreciation tables had stated, hoping to lure new sucker investors in.
So just relax and listen to some soothing music. "Everybody has been burned."
It's funny how people worry about the dangers of Covid and Bird Flu vaxxes. They worry about the dangers of government surveillance. They worry about CBDC's. They worry about a One World Gov't.
They are all missing the real problem and that is cheap and easy to extract Oil. Oil makes vaccines, CBDC's and everything else in between possible. The ironic thing is that it is getting harder and harder and more expensive to keep up with demand to keep Industrial Civilization running.
It's time once again for Tommy Norris to enlighten us on our fossil fuel predicament. In less than 3 minutes he destroys a Greenie, progressive who wants to save the world with Clean Energy.
Try to get your head around the idea that by 2027, US tight oil production might be 12 MM BOPD, not the 9 MM it is now, which is what cheerleaders say it will be, and that means we'll actually have to find and extract 12 MM BOPD... before we can ever grow the new 3 MM. Man, that is a slew of new wells! Thats gonna take like...four times the HZ wells we've already drilled in the US.
Gaza has gas, Syria's Mediterranean coast may have gas as well and one of the reasons of the NATO funded ISIS 2.0 takeover of Damascus is for constructing a gas pipeline from Qatar to Europe trough Turkey.
Connect the dots .
They are massacring alawites , shias non stop , and the day after the takeover they murdered scientists associated with the defence ministry , scholars etc . They had a hit list prepared.
The US might like to do that, Europe would definitely like to do that, but why would *Qatar* do that? They get higher prices for LNG, which offsets some of the inefficiencies of LNG vs pipeline, they have already heavily invested in and completed LNG infrastructure, and it gives them optionality in who they deliver to. If they built the pipeline, they would be locked into the European market and not be able to sell to the highest bidder, still have to build an expensive pipeline (years) that passes through multiple countries that are both unstable and will want their skim (transit fees), and destroy their investment in LNG infrastructure. Not Gonna Happen.
You're not even mentioning the fact of the complete dismantling of the coal power infrastructure. They have been dismantling almost every coal power plant in a 200 miles radius. When they do, they immediately..destroy the transformers, critical boiler power piping and turbines..
I live above the Utica shale formations which is rich in NGL's, on the very west edge of the marcellus. Combined cycle gas turbine, heat recovery steam generators are coming onto the grid all over the area. Connecting straight from wells. Most of what is and was drilled around here has been drilled and capped. The only wells actually tapped and producing are the honey hole NGL wells.
I find it very curious myself,why kill the coal which is also still fairly abundant and switch to gas? You say and others I've read for years about Peak oil we're doomed. Believe it is highly plausible. So are "they" killing coal, purposely invalidating the power station's to help deplete faster? Curious for your thoughts about my observations in what was once a coal power, now a gas power generation area. Believe it ties into your thesis. Thank you!
They told me the reason they were closing was not because there was no more coal in the ground... it was because what was left was too deep ... too complicated... too expensive... to extract.... too unaffordable for people to pay for it....
That's generally the real back story when we read that governments have banned exploration or they are going green....
The last thing they want to tell you is that there is no more viable resources remaining... cuz that causes despair
Mines don't close because there's literally nothing left, as the moreons believe. As you say, they just become uneconomic. It's practically impossible to make average retards understand depletion.
The coal is not abundant. Anthracite coal production peaked in the US in 1919. There is poor quality coal remaining thousands of miles from anywhere in Wyoming. Without plenty of diesel it's useless.
In NZ I bought some coal that was not Ohai... and it would barely burn... that's what happens when you run out of the high quality stuff.... It's like cutting high grade Bolivian Blow with baby powder... nowhere near the kick of the pure stuff
I had no choice but to blow over 20k to install a diesel boiler....
Sold the house and stepped off the Titanic... the new owner will have embraced the diesel heating system given the price of electricity in NZ these days.
We cannot live without fossil fuels and the planet cannot live with them, that’s why nature buried them under the ocean floor. And that’s why we dig it up. Makes perfect sense to the new man in the White House!
I cynically posted on Simplicius @two weeks ago that all we needed is a new 60 million year Carboniferous period ( 360 to 300 million years ago) to regenetrate our fossil fuel natural battery charged by the sun and photosynthesis. After all, forever is no time at all. But then a poster rebutted me and said the conditions for a repeat of the Carboniferous period can not be repeated - I guess due to O2 and Ocean depth factors. So much for that idea.
I think coal could still form but not oil. Only if there are far less humans though. Right now we dig up and burn the peat that eventually becomes coal. I think oil was something that could only form in the conditions on earth many millions of years ago.
I did some English-language copywriting a few years back for Mubadala Energy, here in Indonesia. This might be of interest (lifted and summarized from Copilot):
Mubadala Energy have been active in Indonesia, operating offshore Production Sharing Contracts (PSCs) in the Makassar Strait and northern Sumatra1 since 2004:
Ruby Gas Field, in the Makassar Strait, starting in 2013, with over 280 billion cubic feet of cumulative gas production.
West Sebuku Exploration Block: Mubadala Energy is the operator of the West Sebuku exploration block, which surrounds the Ruby gas field. They hold a 75.5% interest in this block.
Andaman Exploration Block: Mubadala Energy operates the Andaman I and South Andaman Gross Split PSCs with an 80% interest. In 2023, they announced a major gas discovery at the Layaran-1 exploration well in the South Andaman block, with the potential for over 6 trillion cubic feet of gas-in-place.
At the time I was associated wth Mubadala (owned by Abu Dhabi) 100% of the gas was being fed to a Government of Indonesia-owned fertilizer plant. Thus, were the gas to run out, and fertilizer production to taper off, poor harvests would eventually result in famine. This is a country rich in resources but as Fast Eddy pointed out, they are burning through them as fast as they can.
NZ had to do exactly that shutting down industries that were heavily reliant on gas... and rationing what remains... https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/necrosis-in-new-zealand
A nuclear engineer gives us his take on Thorium reactors which is all the rage now. As I suspected as he concludes, it's mostly hype and not the end all, be all.
https://whatisnuclear.com/thorium-myths.html
Steve St Angelo at www.srsroccoreport.com (behind a paywall but occaisionally posts on You Tube) thinks the definitive decline begins 2026. We are facing the dreaded "Red Queen Syndrome" where to keep up NG production, we have to keep discovering and drilling new fields with longer (now at 3 miles) lateral lines, etc. The problem is, the depletion rate of newly completed wells is outpacing discovery, I think 40% depletion after just two years. We can't outrun the lighted fuse of depletion.
Kind of like the 2 year depreciation of the bitcoin mining machines (chips). They burn out a lot faster than the 5-10 year depreciation tables had stated, hoping to lure new sucker investors in.
So just relax and listen to some soothing music. "Everybody has been burned."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-_JstwKU48
It's funny how people worry about the dangers of Covid and Bird Flu vaxxes. They worry about the dangers of government surveillance. They worry about CBDC's. They worry about a One World Gov't.
They are all missing the real problem and that is cheap and easy to extract Oil. Oil makes vaccines, CBDC's and everything else in between possible. The ironic thing is that it is getting harder and harder and more expensive to keep up with demand to keep Industrial Civilization running.
But...but...Jonathan from Canada told us that Oil is infinite and it's the governments that are too lazy to pump it out. 🤪
No natural gas, no fertiliser. No fertiliser, no food. No food - well, we know what happens then.
It's time once again for Tommy Norris to enlighten us on our fossil fuel predicament. In less than 3 minutes he destroys a Greenie, progressive who wants to save the world with Clean Energy.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=fmbZwxEnAFc
We are certainly living in interesting times. Cool picture
The Precarious State of the Shale Oil Industry:
Try to get your head around the idea that by 2027, US tight oil production might be 12 MM BOPD, not the 9 MM it is now, which is what cheerleaders say it will be, and that means we'll actually have to find and extract 12 MM BOPD... before we can ever grow the new 3 MM. Man, that is a slew of new wells! Thats gonna take like...four times the HZ wells we've already drilled in the US.
Where?
https://www.oilystuff.com/single-post/the-hamster-wheel
Gaza has gas, Syria's Mediterranean coast may have gas as well and one of the reasons of the NATO funded ISIS 2.0 takeover of Damascus is for constructing a gas pipeline from Qatar to Europe trough Turkey.
Connect the dots .
They are massacring alawites , shias non stop , and the day after the takeover they murdered scientists associated with the defence ministry , scholars etc . They had a hit list prepared.
Total demolition of a country.
Forget all that. There will be no pipeline.
The US might like to do that, Europe would definitely like to do that, but why would *Qatar* do that? They get higher prices for LNG, which offsets some of the inefficiencies of LNG vs pipeline, they have already heavily invested in and completed LNG infrastructure, and it gives them optionality in who they deliver to. If they built the pipeline, they would be locked into the European market and not be able to sell to the highest bidder, still have to build an expensive pipeline (years) that passes through multiple countries that are both unstable and will want their skim (transit fees), and destroy their investment in LNG infrastructure. Not Gonna Happen.
You're not even mentioning the fact of the complete dismantling of the coal power infrastructure. They have been dismantling almost every coal power plant in a 200 miles radius. When they do, they immediately..destroy the transformers, critical boiler power piping and turbines..
I live above the Utica shale formations which is rich in NGL's, on the very west edge of the marcellus. Combined cycle gas turbine, heat recovery steam generators are coming onto the grid all over the area. Connecting straight from wells. Most of what is and was drilled around here has been drilled and capped. The only wells actually tapped and producing are the honey hole NGL wells.
I find it very curious myself,why kill the coal which is also still fairly abundant and switch to gas? You say and others I've read for years about Peak oil we're doomed. Believe it is highly plausible. So are "they" killing coal, purposely invalidating the power station's to help deplete faster? Curious for your thoughts about my observations in what was once a coal power, now a gas power generation area. Believe it ties into your thesis. Thank you!
I burned coal for heat when living in NZ... a lot of what was on the market was rubbish... the best stuff was from Ohai....
When they announced this https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/452663/end-of-an-era-ohai-locals-recall-life-friendships-in-a-once-bustling-mining-town I rang them up ... to see if I could get in one last big order...
They told me the reason they were closing was not because there was no more coal in the ground... it was because what was left was too deep ... too complicated... too expensive... to extract.... too unaffordable for people to pay for it....
That's generally the real back story when we read that governments have banned exploration or they are going green....
The last thing they want to tell you is that there is no more viable resources remaining... cuz that causes despair
Mines don't close because there's literally nothing left, as the moreons believe. As you say, they just become uneconomic. It's practically impossible to make average retards understand depletion.
The coal is not abundant. Anthracite coal production peaked in the US in 1919. There is poor quality coal remaining thousands of miles from anywhere in Wyoming. Without plenty of diesel it's useless.
In NZ I bought some coal that was not Ohai... and it would barely burn... that's what happens when you run out of the high quality stuff.... It's like cutting high grade Bolivian Blow with baby powder... nowhere near the kick of the pure stuff
I had no choice but to blow over 20k to install a diesel boiler....
Sold the house and stepped off the Titanic... the new owner will have embraced the diesel heating system given the price of electricity in NZ these days.
Sounds like the Wyoming coal, heat content barely above peat. Average retards don't even know there are many grades of coal.
Not possible...
Financial System Supply-Chain Cross-Contagion
A study in global systemic collapse
https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/financial-system-supply-chain-cross
We cannot live without fossil fuels and the planet cannot live with them, that’s why nature buried them under the ocean floor. And that’s why we dig it up. Makes perfect sense to the new man in the White House!
I cynically posted on Simplicius @two weeks ago that all we needed is a new 60 million year Carboniferous period ( 360 to 300 million years ago) to regenetrate our fossil fuel natural battery charged by the sun and photosynthesis. After all, forever is no time at all. But then a poster rebutted me and said the conditions for a repeat of the Carboniferous period can not be repeated - I guess due to O2 and Ocean depth factors. So much for that idea.
I think coal could still form but not oil. Only if there are far less humans though. Right now we dig up and burn the peat that eventually becomes coal. I think oil was something that could only form in the conditions on earth many millions of years ago.
We evolved to dig up these highly ordered molecules and turn them into chaos. It's our job.