We don't have any oil rigs twiddling their thumbs. Indeed rig rates have gone through the roof. This is what people don't seem to understand. The oil industry is practially dead in the UK b… (View Post)

Sorry but this is rubbish. The reason we have not been drilling in the North Sea has been entirely governmental. A combination of very high taxes which are continually changing and a ban on explorati… (View Post)

Something a lot of geologists in the business have been saying for the last 40 years or more. In spite of my well known scorn about the AGW stuff I still don't think we should be burning hydroca… (View Post)

Its brilliant and we should be doing far more like this. There have been geothermal projects running in the Hampshre Basin for decades but they have never been commercialised/adopted because the Gove… (View Post)

As I said earlier, remember Norway already proposed cutting the supply of gas to the UK last year. And a few other points: Current hydro capacity is about 1 percent of demand. Pumped Storage is not g… (View Post)