This will continue

[j.sabourn]

The obvious cause as stated before is the over population of the world in general. Maybe the gay Mardi Gras and same sex over stated and applauded is the secret way which has been formulated to cut back on the birth rate. ????!!!!? JS

[j.sabourn]

I worked out of Fenit SW Ireland 101 nm due west in the Atlantic, it was a Sedco Rig we were servicing and whilst not knowing the results of the survey wouldn’t mind betting there’s oil or gas or both there waiting for it to become cost worthy. There are numeruous sites all over just the same. JS

[Des Taff Jenkins]

HI John.
I remember on one of the Queens visits to Aus many years ago, it could have been her first visit, and they wrote her name in oil in West Aus, then it was said that we had enough oil to last hundreds of years, yet today Aus still has to import all it's oil.
Des

[j.sabourn]

It depends on what grade of oil Des . All your light oils even down to your paraffins are produced from your heavy oil as produced in the Middle East. Your North Sea oils are about middle of the grade as regard vivosity and by products not so conducive to the production of other world oils. Oil is not just oil , it is the by products from it. JS

[happy daze john in oz]

We still pull some oil out from the sea areas I understand.

EV here are not going so well.
Distance is the problem, with very few charging stations around they are really only suited to local runs.

There will soon be a per klm tax on them to make up for the loss of revenue at the pump.
Insurance is up to 3 times higher and resale value very low.

More large SUV are coming to oz, most popular of all is the Ford Ranger, very popular with tradies with space for tools etc and great to two the caravan at weekends.

[j.sabourn]

#25 Jumping from one source of oil to another . I remember sailing with someone yonks ago when whaling was fashionable. His father was high up in one of the worlds best known makers of ladies perfumes. I am doing this from memory of 60 years ago so may have errors re names spelling type of whale etc. the humpback the hunting and killing of such apart from the blubber ,meat etc., there was one part of the hump the size of a fist known as the Umbris ?? Which was an additive to a well known ladies perfume and was worth and covered all the expenses of a whaling expedition, he carried a small bottle of it in his pocket for luck I suppose ,he said it was worth a lot of money, he didn’t try to sell it to me ,or I would immediately have seen a hoax. However I have heard from others this was true. Cheers JS. PS that Umbris could be Ambris have a feeling it began with an A , or even Ambrigasse or similar . JS

[Tony Taylor]

#25

Spot on John.
Various crude oils have to be blended tgether so that a perfect blend is reached in order to maximise the refining of the six major components.
As an example - North Sea oil is generally lowish viscosity and sulphur, which makes a perfect blend with either heavy Saudi or Iraqi oil -

The stuff off the Irish coast is very low sulphur and around 50 cst viscosity - almost pure light fuel oil -so will need a very heavy crude to blend.

Russian Urals crude is an almot perfect blend for N Sea- as is Venezuelan - but the latter is too far to ship to make sense.

As I said in my previous post on the subject - it is far far too early to write off hydrocarbons yet.
Its offtakes service just about every known commodity - from plastics to dresses, laptops to TVs from power generation to driven vehicles.
Oil plays a major part in every humans life - like it or not.


Now, here's a thought - how does a farmer collect his harvest of wheat from a 300 acre field - without a diesel tractor?
He buys an electric tractor and returns to his farmhouse to recharge it 30 times to complete the job!!
A work-study of the latter operation would destroy every element - from the time it would take to harvest to the cost involved.
Now multiply tha by a trillion to cover farming world wide!!!

"Solar panels" I hear the cry .... sure, good idea, but can the sun be guaranteed to shine ad infinitum?!

NOW THAT is how ludicrous the JSO activists and panic stricken governments are when they chase their a***s to "go green"!

I have carried many cargoes of Venezuelan crude to Europe / UK. Pain the rear due to being heated cargo with resulting repairs to heating coils on ballast trip.

[James Curry]

I have carried several cargos of Venezuela crudes. As said it was a heated cargo and a right work up. the smell of it would choke a horse.
It has a very high content of Sulphur, Vanadium and nickel.
We had to bunker once there when up at Lake Maracaibo. Think it was Puerto Mirandia. Nothing but engine trouble was now on impossible to get it heated to high enough temperature so as to maintain the ideal viscosity.
We ended up doing a ship to ship transfer to get ride of the stuff onto an old BP steam ship. Diffo not best suited for an aging B&W motorship. We had to pull every unit and jet chisel the piston crowns and same with the nozzle rings on the Turbo chargers.
Bloody nightmare.

[happy daze john in oz]

A report today shows how the march of EV is going.

A global survey of some 50,000EV owners showed that about 49% will go back to ICE.
The number was higher here in Oz, distanced being the main reason.

[j.sabourn]

Well I’m sticking by my old gopher come hell or high water. Although would be good to see
that they could compete speed wise with some of these electric scooters. JS.