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The Imperishable Permian Basin: Growing at 90 (Resourceship in action: I)
“The Permian Basin is a story about combining the various talents of independents, majors, and service companies in using advancing technologies to sustain the lifespan of existing fields, to tap into...
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The Mighty Bakken (Resourceship in action: II)
[Ed. note: North Dakota registered $25.3 billion in taxable economic activity 2012, a 29 percent increase from 2011. The major reason for this economic boom is described below.] Any discussion of the...
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Eagle Ford: Texas Shale Star (Resourceship in action: III)
“The Eagle Ford, still in an early stage of development, may end up being more complex than some of the earlier big resource plays such as the Barnett or Haynesville … Companies from around the world...
View ArticleRefrack Resourceship: Why the Carbon-based Energy Era Is Still Young
“[T]hough the oil-market crash has put the nation’s energy boom on hold, some oil-technology companies are pursuing what they say will be a second American shale revolution … That belief lies partially...
View ArticleResourceship Unbound (US oil output record in light of mineral-resource theory)
“As new US (and world) oil and gas records are set, the wisdom of Julian Simon, Morris Adelman, and Michael Lynch, as well as other luminaries such as Erich Zimmermann and Thomas DeGregori, will become...
View ArticleMinerals as Manufacturing: The Case of Oil and Gas
“If resources are not fixed but created, then the nature of the scarcity problem changes dramatically. For the technological means involved in the use of resources determines their creation and...
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New Oil & Gas Drilling: A Schematic (‘Time for Tiramisu’)
“Current technology liberates, at best, 5 percent of the available oil in shale so continued technology advances would significantly improve future resource recovery.” Oil and gas drillers...
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