ConocoPhillips Greater Esofisk area, Norway.
By Jo Nova
Look how fast Norway is moving
While Australia and the UK pat themselves on the back, telling themselves that no one is interested in fossil fuels, the market price tells another story. Norway, meanwhile, is going gangbusters on project development.
The EcoWorriers are not happy. These gas and oil fields were closed down in 1998 but there is still twenty years of gas and oil left to dig out. Production is due to start in 2028.
The end of fossil fuels was always a myth The Blob wanted us to believe.
Norwegian government attacked over decision to reopen North Sea gasfields
— By Miranda Bryant and Jillian Ambrose, The Guardian
Approval for exploration in 70 new areas prompts fierce backlash from fossil fuel opponents
Amid sharp price rises in oil and gas since the US and Israel’s attack on Iran in February, Oslo has also given its approval for oil and gas companies to explore in 70 new locations in the North Sea, Barents Sea and Norwegian Sea.
The decision by the Labour-run government goes against the advice of the country’s environment agency and has infuriated left-leaning parties.
“We live in troubled times,” the prime minister, Jonas Gahr Støre, said as he announced the decision, which would “create great value for the community, lay the foundation for good jobs throughout the country, ensure our common welfare and contribute to Europe’s energy security and safety”.
There are at least five different projects and areas that are suddenly in action:
Norway’s state oil company, Equinor, hopes to develop the Rosebank oilfield, while Shell is waiting for a government decision on its Jackdaw gas project.
This will of course, help rescue Europe from it’s green fantasy:
Norway Just Switched on Another Gas Lifeline for Europe
Equinor has fast-tracked the long-idled Eirin gas field into production, boosting European supply via existing infrastructure at a time when energy security still dominates policy.
That backdrop explains why Eirin, holding expected recoverable resources of about 27.6 million barrels of oil equivalent, mainly gas, suddenly carries strategic weight.
Thanks to Ben Beattie who retweeted @yestiseye — “oh no, the Australia Institute is going to be so upset“
Much of the rest of the world is abandoning Net Zero (or Net Negative) ideology and associated zero or negative economic productivity but the Australian Government is fanatically committed and is prepared to destroy the economy to prove it, and indeed already has.
Even Their ABC (Australia) admits to the decline in the standard of living compared to other OECD countries. https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-05-07/can-albanese-government-fix-the-economy-four-corners/105260320
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but we can save the world dontcha know, just ask blown in the wind
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Enhanced Oil Recovery is firstly a process about pumping methane and water downhole to get more oil out of a reserve by adding and maintaining reserve pressure.
Next its about pumping CO2 downhole. Supercritical CO2 is miscible with oil. It makes heavier oil move. Without it you have to use expensive light hydrocarbons.
Watch our ALP change to being pro-CO2 when oil gets too expensive. Vast volumes of CO2 are required. The oil companies are happy to talk green government into the idea that CO2 is a horrific gas and MUST be hidden downhole at taxpayer expense. All they have to do is finance young idiots to protest and create a crisis.
Socialist governments exist for a crisis. It wins them elections. More certain than vote buying.
Everything in the Earth’s modern economy is provided by oil.
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As fossil fuels run out, the price will rocket and exploration and expansion and exploitation will boom. OPEC have spent 40 years trying to throttle oil and gas to force the price up. The Greens and Iran are doing their job for them. Who needs OPEC?
The same with rare earths which were $8 a kg until Greens stopped dirty strip mining with slave labour world wide and now China gets $250 a kg and runs the mines. To save the planet of course. China can do whatever it likes without criticism. Are there any Greens who are not communists? Tasmanian Dr Bob Brown was even ejected from the party he founded. He is not welcome because it is not about the environment.
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Years ago when former Howard Treasurer Costello was returning to Australia from a visit overseas, and one country being Germany, he was asked by journalists about his trip and he mentioned meeting a former German Green and former Cabinet Minister, he would not repeat all of their discussions but mentioned the Green had described the Australian Green Party as being to the left of international Green parties.
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Fossil fuels are not going to “run out” any time soon
I suspect you ment to say..
“As fossil fuels become more restricted,….”.
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It’s interesting how the mechanics of pricing works and my point is about pricing.
Consider America currently generates more oil than Russia and Saudi combined. And now they are pumping more.
So there is no shortage in America. Even so the US price of gasoline has jumped 50%! Why?
The modern world is entirely dependent on fossil fuels, not least for transport. Especially in Australia. And governments always love to tax any spending, so prices climb even faster. There is a limit before voters in Australia throw out an overtaxing goverment with excise on petrol, so the Australian government is still taxing all fuel, but hidden from the public in the Safeguard Mechanism, a 35% tax on CO2. So when your airfares double, that will be airline greed, not a massive hidden tax on the biggest cost in flying, fuel.
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There you are — the US producing enormous quantities of oil and gas. But compared we here in Oz produce insignificant amounts on a world scale.
I can’t believe that we are so bereft of these resources being very similar in area to the continental lower states of US and with more accessible off shore area.
Time to oust this government and “Drill, baby; Drill”!
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And America can do that because 66% of the oil and 90% of the gas comes from fracking. Without fracking, they would be devastated, like us, the land of plenty where fracking and everything else is not only illegal, in Victoria its unconstitutional. Perhaps uniquely in the entire 199 countries of the UN. Idiots are us. Or at least to let a Government embed Green Science in the Constitution and in the laws. Without any of it being correct. But then they wanted to embed racism in our Constitution too, which is likely happening in Victoria. Legalized racism. Worse than Apartheid.
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Oil will not run out any time soon (except in Australia where there are severe Government restrictions on exploration and extraction).
While there is obviously a finite amount current estimates are that the world has 1.77 trillion barrels of proven reserves which is enough for 47 years at present rates of consumption. https://www.worldometers.info/oil/
Unproven reserves would make that figure higher.
(Some also claim an abiogenic origin of oil where it is continuously formed from cracking of lighter hydrocarbons from deeper in the mantle or asthenosphere and through high-pressure, high-temperature reactions between carbon, hydrogen and minerals.)
We won’t be running out soon but when we do get to that point we can start doing coal and gas to liquid fuel conversion using cheap fusion energy which will hopefully be online by then.
Batteries will never replace liquid fuels in all applications because they don’t have the energy density of hydrocarbon fuels, even in theory.
Gasoline provides roughly 12,000 Wh/kg, while top-tier lithium-ion batteries are around 250-300 Wh/kg and are pushing close to theoretical limits. Possible advances will not close the gap.
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That’s a bit literal. Oil and gas has already run out in many places. Bass Strait. Dubai. And even the Norwegian example is that there might be another 20 years to go, so they are going back.
At the same time Iran and Dubai now have working nuclear power stations. Many countries have.
It’s only Australia which has banned nuclear and refuses to exploit what we have in fossil fuels or bans mining and fracking and even exploration.
So the question is not whether they will run out especially with exponentially increasing demand and prices explode as they do, but when and where. And then every last coal seam and bit of sludge and gas pocket will be located and exploited. It’s what has driven the boom in production after the first scare in the 1970s. Even uranium is very limited. Thorium is the first alternative. And then fusion.
But Victoria has banned Thorium, fossil fuel development and I would guess they will ban fusion soon too. Idiots are a small percentage of the population, but the greatest concentration is on Spring Street.
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And yesterday in Victoria explaining how they will handle the greatest financial crisis in the history of the state with a debt of $199Billion and doubling interest payments, the Victorian State Government has affirmed that they will, as always, spend their way out of debt. And of course the same thing at the Federal level. We just have to sell more coal and gas so we can pay for more oil. That’s what it means to be Green.
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Then, for the purpose of a photo shoot and social media hits, Premier barbie (Jacinta Allan) made an announcement that Victoria had allocated 10 million litres of diesel for emergency type situations. Wow, what a bunch of nincompoops. Victoria is 23% of Australia’s population. The country uses 90m L diesel per day. Vic alone uses about 20m L of diesel per day. So 10m litres is about 12 hours worth., on average. It’s approaching midway in the broadacre autumn winter sowing program in Australia. Tractors use about 100L of diesel per hour during sowing. So, in reality that 10m L wouldn’t even go 10 hours in peak usage periods.
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Ross,
I won’t dispute that, but I would think they’re reserving that 10 Ml for critical services. For example, each coal power station has bulldozers (to mine the coal or to move coal from the stack to the furnace intake). If you don’t have (say) 1000l per day of fuel for each dozer, not only are you out of diesel, you’re out of electricity.
No doubt another “critical service” would be the ministerial vehicle fleet, since the nincompoops wouldn’t want to be rubbing shoulders with the hoi polloi on public transport (that’s only for high-vis vest photo-ops).
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Most coal fired stations don’t require Dozers to move coal from stock pile to intake, Coal is usually distributed via electric driven stackers and reclaimers. The mines feeding the power stations certainly need Diesel for dozers, excavators, haul trucks and other auxiliary equipment and 10 million litres wouldn’t last long at all.
I’d like to know what they deem as “critical services”? It’s usually ambulance, fire ,police, maybe Defence? The Political elites transport would use unleaded fuelled cars although surely Jacinta and Co use EV’s being green ideology fanatics.
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TdeF,
And *that’s* at bit figurative.
Oil and gas don’t “run out” like petrol in a lawn mower. Whether or not an oil well has “run out” depends on the oil price. The well stops operating when the cost of extraction is more than the expected revenue.
There’s meant to be something like 3 tons of gold in each cubic mile of seawater. The price of gold is not high enough for this to be worth “mining”, but the gold is still there.
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Same as Helium-3 to run Fusion power, its in the ocean but inefficient and costly to extract. Getting it from the moon might be cheaper.
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You have drawn a ridiculous conclusion from a silly suggestion. Fusion does not require He3 at all.
The notional idea is that the reaction produces no neutrons so no ’emissions’, which doesn’t matter as you surround the reactor with hydrogen in the form of water. Neutrons stop very quickly with water. Neutrons will go through concrete and stop in water. Which is why neutron bombs are deadly as humans are made from CO2 and water, little else. Water is abundant and cheap. It’s just a hangover from the marketing idea that nuclear power has no emissions, which is also a ridiculous statement.
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As for abundance, approximately 1 in 6,420 hydrogen atoms is deuterium (heavy hydrogen). There are 46 trillion tons of deuterium in the world’s oceans. As I wrote before, Hitler’s scientists who were way ahead of the West were refining deuterium as heavy water in 1943 in turn to moderate nuclear fission instead of graphite. Fusion is indicated by the same energy/mass graph as fission and much more energetic. The first hydrogen bomb was perhaps 100x as powerful as was expected.
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Thanks, its well above my pay grade, so I’ll concede that I know zip.
Just discovered that one out of every 5000 hydrogen atoms appears as deuterium, so that would be roughly 200 parts per million in the oceans, literally thousands of tons of fusion material here on Earth.
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Not thousands of tons, 46 trillion tons. And a hydrogen bomb is about 1000x as powerful as an atom bomb. So the human race would have power forever.
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At a cost of tens of Trillions, the world has installed 500,000 gigantic windmills and billions of solar panels? Life expectancy 20 years. And then we have nothing. That’s political science, not real science.
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As for the nuclear ban Will Shackel is doing his best:
https://www.nuclearforaustralia.com/nuclear_for_australia_welcomes_step_forward_for_nuclear_energy_in_nsw
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I worked on Norway’s first oil field at Ekofisk in the very southern sector of their claim on the North Sea.
At that time the technology wasn’t there to run a pipeline to the Norwegian shore because of the deep trench around Norway (caused by scour of the glaciers in a previous cooling period).
Even though other nations bordering the North Sea offered to run pipelines to their shores, Norway was determined to bring the oil to their ports in the first instance so they set up facilities to load the oil directly to tankers right there at Ekofisk.
Initially this was through Single Point Mooring Buoys. It was a very memorable year for me rolling around in the storms waiting for a break in the weather to proceed with the installation of these buoys!
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MinB. Yes, I think a similar plan is thought would be best for the Dorado oil field off NW shelf. Just load oil into moored tankers.
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FPSOs (Floating Production, Storage, and Offloading) are relatively common off WA already.
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I’m on my iPad now instead of my phone, and looking a bit more clearly at the photo which I now see is one of the more fully developed Ekofisk field.
That was a nice fine, calm day!
Note that circular thing off to the left. That would be the structure the Norwegians built in Stavanger and floated out and sunk on site for oil storage.
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It would be interesting to see an honest assessment of how much oil Australia potentially has.
Companies have been discouraged from exploring by Government restrictions plus all the usual problems of trying to do business in Australia.
Even with the current oil crisis I can’t see the Government encouraging exploration. And not the Liberals either. Remember how Morrison banned offshore oil exploration in the Sydhey basin and the Sicktorian Libs collaborates with Labor to ban frackibg in the constitution.
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And as for exploring for oil in offshore Queensland waters! Forget it! The greenies would be on top of you, not with “a ton of bricks”, but a ton of watermelons.
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Does anyone have hard data on current state of ExxonValdez 1989 site ?
I recall that at the turn of the century there was some remarkable natural recovery…
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Crude oil is biodegradable. There was no need to spend billions to clean up the site, nature would have done it anyway, although it was useful to scoop up gross quantities of oil to hasten the process. It was necessary to clean and save the birds however.
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The insane progressive Victorian government ‘litters’ the constitution by entrenching green energy policy in the document. Disgusting what they did, with the help of the pathetic Liberal Party led by Michael O’Brien.
And of course the left also placed an amendment requiring a special majority to enable the repeal of the fracking ban..
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Man, so this how it goes then?
Slow trickle fade and on to the new thing and never mind.
And don’t complain about the $16 trillion.
Maybe the Data Centers can erase our memory chips* keeping us from noticing.
Future kids may never find the photo of mommy gluing her hand to a highway.
*I realize chips are probably dated and it’s in a cloud or something. Good place for it.
Or for the Rolling Stones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDHrLsgiiFE&list=RDfDHrLsgiiFE&start_radio=1
What kind of world are we leaving to Keith Richards?
Wonder how many boosters he’s had?
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I can’t help thinking that Government Ministers, the public serpents that tell them what to think, the Greens, and the Left in general (who mostly are employed on the taxpayer purse, not in productive jobs) are quietly smiling at the de-energisation of Australia and associated economic destruction that they have successfully achieved
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It’s interesting to see how differently countries are approaching energy now. The potential reserves in those older fields could really change the outlook.
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Thanks for that latest information Jo and why can’t Aussies have the same sort of intelligent pollies that exist in Norway?
Why do we prefer to rely on clueless, unreliable, toxic W & S and destroy our environment and kill thousands of Koalas over eastern Australia?
Just unbelievable but true.
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Remember the Morrison Coalition Government announcements in 2020, Prime Minister Scott Morrison and Minister for Energy Angus Taylor on energy and including fuel supplies, links I have posted here? And that after May 2022 when the Albanese Labor Government was elected most of the Morrison planning was abandoned.
Here is part of Prime Minister Albanese’ announcement yesterday;
The Albanese Labor Government has announced today that the Federal Budget next week will include an Australian Fuel Security and Resilience package to ensure energy sovereignty and protect our nation’s energy interests.
The package will provide more than $10 billion to secure Australia’s near-term fuel and fertiliser security, establish a permanent Government-owned Australian Fuel Security Reserve of around a billion litres, and lift the Minimum Stockholding Obligation by around 10 days for every type of fuel.
This will support an overall expansion of Australia’s onshore fuel reserves to ensure at least 50 days of fuel supply and storage of diesel and aviation fuel.
As part of our plan to deliver energy sovereignty, our Australian Fuel Security and Resilience package will deliver:
$7.5 billion for the establishment of a Fuel and Fertiliser Security Facility to increase supply and storage of fuel and fertiliser by providing financial support including loans, equity, guarantees, insurance and price support.
$3.2 billion to establish a Government-owned Australian Fuel Security Reserve of around a billion litres to increase long term diesel and aviation fuel supply and storage in combination with an increase to the Minimum Stockholding Obligation (MSO), to increase Australia’s critical fuel reserves to 50 days. Our Australia Fuel Security Reserve will focus on regional stockouts and supply constraints for essential users in the event of another supply crisis.
$10 million to support feasibility studies into new or expanded fuel refining capabilities, to be co-funded with state and territory jurisdictions.
The Government will consult on implementation of the fuel reserve to enable the ability to underwrite or purchase fuel, support storage, and trade stocks as needed to ensure our fuel security during severe or prolonged fuel supply disruption.
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All that taxpayer money to be spent for the benefit of those who will harvest that subsidy.
Just allow the free market do it’s job and no need for more wasted billions of taxpayer money.
And do you really think it will stick to budget? The blow-outs will be extreme, just like SH2.
Also, what’s missing in the announcement? There is nothing (at least in what you posted) on freeing up restrictions on exploration or local production. It’s all about storage only. What could possibly go wrong?
In any case, just about everything Albanese says is a lie. His Government is strongly committed to simpleton Blackout Bowen’s anti-energy policies. I doubt if any of it comes to fruition.
This Government hates energy even more than John Howard when he joined Australia to Kyoto Protocol and initiated Australia on the path to renewable energy economic destruction, or banned nuclear power or gave away our gas supply to the Chicomms https://www.smh.com.au/opinion/how-australia-blew-its-future-gas-supplies-20170928-gyqg0f.html .
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So, obviously, Prime Minister Albanese is again displaying each way politics and trying to capture voter attention to defuse the anger over the fuel crisis and preparing for the 2028 election to try and combat the campaigning on natural resources and energy by Angus Taylor and Matt Canavan for the Coalition Opposition underway.
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Howard Coalition Government elected 1996, Kyoto COP 1997 –
Initially, John Howard supported the Kyoto Protocol, viewing it as a diplomatic success. However, he later opposed ratification, citing concerns that it would:
Cost Jobs: Howard argued that adhering to the protocol would harm Australia’s economy, particularly its coal industry, which is a major export sector.
Damage Industry: He believed that the protocol would place Australian industries at a competitive disadvantage compared to countries with fewer restrictions on emissions.
Economic Disadvantage: Howard expressed that ratifying the protocol could lead to a “flight of jobs” as companies might relocate to countries with less stringent environmental regulations.
In summary, while Howard initially endorsed the Kyoto Protocol, his later opposition was rooted in economic concerns regarding its impact on Australia’s industries and employment.
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It was as much Howard ‘s fault that most of the world (meaning – nearly all …) nations decided to cheat and to lie, as of a good citizen who paying taxes honestly, hoping that everyone does the same.
Like – every non-American may hate counterproductive tariff barriers but that thimbles and a pea war started a generation before Trump.
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Kevin Rudd’s Labor Government ratified the Kyoto Protocol on December 3, 2007, shortly after taking office, marking a significant shift in Australia’s climate policy. This ratification committed Australia to limit its greenhouse gas emissions to no more than 8% above 1990 levels during the 2008-2012 period.
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All of this in order to (try to) do the job they should have done in the first place.
Why is it that an emergency results in plans to prepare for an emergency?
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Albo you Plonker. The International Recommendation is for the oil Reserve to be a minimum of 90 days supply. Are you and your Mob thick or something?
That’s a rhetorical question BTW.
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He knows that but has to stick to the party propaganda after trying to blame Minister for Energy Morrison Government Taylor for storing fuel/oil in America so far away Labor have been saying to try and excuse the Morrison Government planning and actions 2019-2022 that Labor abandoned from May 2022.
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Uni-Party not so uni when all the facts are on the table to compare
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Norway seem to be doing the exact opposite of us here in Australia, they developed their own oilfields, put the profits in a $2T sovereign wealth fund, then run their country on clean power sources which power EVs.
Obviously there are major differences in both countries, but it is obvious there is an intelligence present there which is lacking here in OZ.
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What are you referring to? Coal, gas, nuclear? All clean.
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Hydro? Was there in October, and the amount of water still pouring down from the mountains into the fjords was staggering.
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Yes, Hydro is their dominant power source — ~90% with 8% wind and 2% “fossil” fuels. (Source AI so might be wrong.)
Enough electricity to be able to export their excess.
They have no onshore oil fields.
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Ronin, there is nothing clean or green about toxic, unreliable, Koala killing W & S and this only lasts for about 15 to 20 years and then the entire toxic mess has to be cleaned up and replaced again and again by 2100.
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You mean focused on prosperity rather than de-industrialisation.
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Norway is a small nation,
Small population
Small electricity demand
….But with large oil reserves which they sell, ..
…. whilst generating electricity using their abundant hydro power.
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I think also the Norwegian govt caps the retail price of electricity for consumers.
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Don’t they have lots of hydro.
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Equinor, the national (major stakeholder is the government, but not the only owner) energy company was formerly known as StatoilHydro.
In 2007, Statoil (the actual state owned entity) merged with the oil and gas division of Norsk Hydro -> hence, StatoilHydro.
One reason (of many) they renamed themselves to Equinor, was to remove “oil” from their name.
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Again here’s the CSIRO quote that proves that the entire SH is already a co2 NET SINK. See the last sentence of the CSIRO quote:
“Seasonal Variation”.
“Carbon dioxide concentrations show seasonal variations (annual cycles) that vary according to global location and altitude. Several processes contribute to carbon dioxide annual cycles: for example, uptake and release of carbon dioxide by terrestrial plants and the oceans, and the transport of carbon dioxide around the globe from source regions (the Northern Hemisphere is a net source of carbon dioxide, the Southern Hemisphere a net sink)”.
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Here’s that CSIRO Cape Grim link and see their co2 NH NET SOURCE and SH co2 NET SINK quote under Seasonal Variation.
https://capegrim.csiro.au/
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The same is said for methane on that web site
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Remember the claim that the global [CO2] was approximately balanced before the IE? True enough as it only went up and down slowly over time, so over short periods (a year/ a decade) the CO2 produced/released was matched by the CO2 sequestered/absorbed.
now imaging that the globe is not a monotonous mono environment but has continents and oceans and soil types and currents that make it a patchwork where some places absorb and some emit on the whole, while globally the change from year to year is negligible.
So you can divide the world up however you like and you’ll find that, unless you are very lucky, one part will be a net sink and the other a net producer of CO2.
It is a banal observation that has no geopolitical meaning whereas this is what is being addressed by the IPCC and others; if you are a net sink but less-so because of your production of CO2 then you are as bad as a place that is a greater net producer than it would have been without industrial CO2 adding to the production.
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Gee Aye can you tell us what is the problem with our co2 emissions and also provide the data to support your argument.
Is it dangerous extreme weather death rates since the 1960s or Sea Level Rise or polar bears or the hot spot or death rates from fires & burns or death rates from aviation accidents or….. ?
Don’t forget that they’ve also told us that their extreme RCP 8.5 is now a load of BS.
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Given that the Polar Bear population was estimated at 12,000 in the 1960s and presently estimated to be about 30,000; I’d say yes. The risk of death by Polar Bear will have increased in that timeframe. 😉
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Thanks Neville by providing no argument but asking me lots of questions. You can find the answers here.
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He basically asked you two things in his first line. Then pondered some possibilities as to what your concern might be in the second line. Not a lot of questions.
You would have seen a number of Neville’s frequent posts about why he doesn’t think increased CO2 is a problem and he provides the data that supports his thought. (usually ‘our world in data’ statistics). No offence to Neville, but the benefits his posted stats show could be attributed to a number of factors unrelated to the CO2 debate. But at least he has provided some data related to his thought, and not without some merit.
You have just tried to divert to a faux “don’t ask me so many questions” and then provide a google search link (an amusing one I dare say) that mocks the person for not googling the answer themself.
But he’s interested in what your concern is and the support for it. Not what google’s popular result is, or whatever the result is based on.
None of the results brought up by that mocking search actually answer the typed question anyway. Which kind of makes it funnier. But also reflects your typical approach here. Which is to throw up the briefest possible response, often obscure or cryptic, and leave it to others to figure out the direct meaning.
Maybe stick to the biology which you do occasionally attempt to properly engage in and educate.
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Nope. It’s disingenuous concern trolling. Good try.
Southern hemisphere net CO2 is an irrelevance to a debate about emissions reductions. Follow the links I sent to find my concerns.
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I did follow the singular link you provided, which does a google search. As I said above, “None of the results brought up by that mocking search actually answer the typed question anyway.” This time the results are slightly different but similar enough that my first assessment still stands.
First link heading in the result. “Can you explain why Australia is considered nett zero?”
This has links to evidence of localised sinks, which was kind of Nev’s point earlier. Not yours.
Second link heading. “What do you say to people who believe that the climate is changing, but don’t see it as human-caused, but rather that it is a natural cycle that the planet is going through, just like it has for millions of years?”
Various facebook comments of both points of view. Are we supposed to weed out which view is yours?
Third link heading. “The argument for a carbon price”.
The initial info seems to be a lot of broad alarmist claims, of which some not even the IPCC agrees. How do we interpret which of these are your concerns? No real evidence either. Surely that wasn’t a link you intended to answer for you.
Fourth one. “My friend doesn’t believe that carbon emissions are causing global warming… ”
A reddit discussion of various views/opinions. Again, which of these is yours? No supporting evidence either.
Fifth one. Ah, maybe we’re getting somewhere. “Evidence – NASA Science”
Their opening line is: “There is unequivocal evidence that Earth is warming at an unprecedented rate. Human activity is the principal cause.”
Hmmmm. Nope. Just evidence of warming but no evidence of CO2 being the cause.
Surely this isn’t your intended link or opinion.
I think when you ironically label Neville the troll you should reflect on your own style of posting.
Some time ago you lamented that this blog had lost the ability to have a proper discussion. Maybe it has whipped you into the sort of responses you give. Maybe you now think, “No point in attempting proper discussion so I’ll just throw some rocks from time to time”. Perhaps that provides yourself with sufficient entertainment. But I hope you can expand your answers. A blog like this needs some thoughtful differing views. All blogs do.
Actually your initial response #12.3 was reasonable in that sense. It’s a good philosophical discussion to have regarding a global approach, or country based including natural sinks or otherwise, or whether it should be per capita vs per country. But then none of that is relevant if CO2 is largely irrelevant.
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Yep… your last paragraph nails it and explains why I responded as I did. The rest though-
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The rest though …. was a good indication of how poor your link was. If it was a genuine attempt to show your concerns then fail. If it was just for an amusing mock then somewhat success. But it was symbolic of your more common posts which, as I said, are often obscure or cryptic and just throwing a rock.
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“It is a banal observation that has no geopolitical meaning whereas this is what is being addressed by the IPCC and others” in spite of the fact that the IPCC has admitted that their apocalyptic climate scenarios are ‘Implausible’. Add to this their open and totally [inexcusable] manipulation of the Ceres satellite data in AR6. Add to this co-opting the PEMOD Labs to [deceitfully] manipulate the Acrim satellite data. The IPCC has consistently undermined their own credibility. Just how many times does an organisation have to prove themselves to be untrustworthy before the flunkies wake up to the scam. If you want to engage in a meaningful discussion, at least quote a credible source rather than a discredited bunch of grifters.
[Email coming. – Jo]
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Nothing you wrote addresses what I wrote. Dividing the globe into CO2 active bits is irrelevant
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And Sleezy is planning to spend $10bn on oil storage because the prospect of having viable oil production and refining when wholesale electricity price is $100/MWh is zero.
Australia can have the lowest price electricity in the world and regain its lost industries but not with the current fanatics in power.
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More Oil and Gas money for that Norwegian Sovereign Wealth Fund as well.
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Gotta love those vikings.
I’m no geologist, just a humble ag scientist. But my basic memory of Australian geology is that due to the continent’s location and geological history we are good at mineral deposits plus gas and coal. But not so good on potential “large” oil deposits. I think Bass Strait may have been the exception to that rule or just a complete fluke. Whatever.
Hence, we should be like the good Norwegians and be exploiting our coal and gas in a priority over oil. I’m sure there are plenty of more learned geologists and energy company personnel who know this. Problem was I think they got shouted down in management meetings by the climate alarmists, or were forced by dopey government to adhere to climate change policies.
Australia needs to turn the climate change ship around double quick. It was always alarmism, then it became a hoax and morphed into a scam. The polar bears are fine, the ice caps are not melting, there will be no acidic boiling seas, leave the poor bloody cows alone and don’t force me to drive an EV.
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It appears that the New South Wales Legislative Council has passed legislation to remove the NSW prohibitions on uranium mining and nuclear energy. https://minerals.org.au/resources/nsw-uranium-bill-marks-a-welcome-first-step-in-consistent-nationwide-approach/
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Today the total global primary energy by source still shows fossil fuels are supplying at least 80%.
Unreliable, toxic Wind =3.3% and Solar = 2.8% of the total primary energy used globally.
So why are we wasting our money and precious time on this toxic, unreliable rubbish?
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/global-energy-substitution?stackMode=relative
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What is the wind and solar percentage of global electricity consumed?
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Graeme4, the electrical energy generated for the world from W & S is about 17%+ and Australia is about 33%. Again that’s just 17% and 33% of electrical power generation.
But according to Wikipedia average capacity factors for W=24% and S= 15% for Australia and that’s for every day, month and year.
And electricity generation is only about 25% of total global primary energy to run the world.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-electricity-production-from-solar-and-wind?
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Sorry, here’s the World and Australia’s electricity generation percentage graphs.
https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/share-of-electricity-production-from-solar-and-wind?tab=line&country=AUS~OWID_WRL
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Thanks Neville. I always look for the data on exactly what was used to supply the power. China has a lot of solar, but they seem to have a policy of restricting its use, so the actual amount of electricity from solar is quite low.
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Why don’t we do this? — Coal liquefaction or coal-to-liquids (CTL) technology. Been proven… You can get diesel, petrol, jet fuel all of it from coal.
These liquid fuels from coal are also high quality, low emissions and high octane.
See if we had this in place, when oil prices go nuts, just turn more to coal for liquid fuels..
Suggest this to Bowen and watch him scratch his head, look bemused and start blubbering about green steel or some other fantasy…
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Australian Politicians…are below,the,….STUPID LINE…
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The Australian and Victorian governments have approved a new Petroleum Production Licence to develop the Annie gas field off the Victorian coast
https://www.minister.industry.gov.au/ministers/king/media-releases/new-gas-production-and-acreage-supply-east-coast
So what are the “objectives of the Future Gas Strategy?
https://www.industry.gov.au/publications/future-gas-strategy
Well, the first two objectives are in direct conflict.
The second one is in direct conflict with the Victoria government’s proposed phase out of gas with all new homes now prevented from installing gas appliances, developments that were issued a permit after Jan 2024 prevented from installing gas reticulation, and all homes prevented from replacing gas appliances that have broken down with another gas appliance from 2027. All to achieve the state’s target of 70-80% co2 emissions reduction by 2035 and net zero by 2045.
So who is going to invest in the Annie gas field project while government is giving them such a short timeframe to recoup investment? Or is it the international market it is being opened up for?
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Aa they continue to destroy the power stations, where’s the electricity going to come from for this electrification?
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Union Inc business opportunity with shareholding?
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Odd place Norway. Although superficially wealthy, its citizens are taxed heavily, including an exit tax if you dont like it and decide to leave. The country’s wealth seems to be managed with an army quartermaster mentality ” you can’t have that, someone may need it” if you are the common Norge that is.
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Look what happened when they didn’t have an EXIT Tax?
Lots of Norwegians wandering around Scotland, Ireland, Iceland, Greenland and North America.
Some even got into England, France and Sicily, and Russia.
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My Norwegian (viking) ancestors entered via the Hebrides. No immigration checks then, if you don’t count hostile locals, that is.
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I think Scottish people test as 10% Norwegian genetically.
And Donald Trump’s mother was from the island of Lewis, the largest island in the Outer Hebrides. She did not speak English until she left school.
It’s a strange juxtaposition that the most famous modern Englishman, Winston Churchill had an American mother.
While Trump is reviled in the UK, he is more British than many.
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The Germanic Tribes of Scandinavia had interesting ways of dealing with people and lands etc., example Gotland/Gothland Island part of Sweden today in the Baltic Sea and had been at one time a major trading place, capital city Visby where many business people from Germania/Germany had warehouses and business premises.
Earlier the population had increased to the point of overcrowding causing hardship for supplying food and generally so they agreed to hold a lottery, a straw poll if you prefer and yje short straw holders agreed to leave and the people remaining agreed to pay them for the land and other assets that could not be taken onboard ships to settle elsewhere.
The Goths of various tribes established Germany where they defeated a Roman Army and the Romans named the country Germania.
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Our good planet, a Goldilocks planet, has never been so healthy, even ice-age extinct wolves have been resurrected while other under threat of extinction are being cared for. The planet refuses to obey the hockey stock while Net Zero is pushing humanity back into the cave.
The war against the Bearded Beasts of Tehran has made many realise that windmills and sunrays wheelbarrows don’t cut it. They have failed. These technologies, forced upon us by the elitist billionaire-led globalist cabal have failed us when we needed them most and are now on their way out. When wind turbines reach their pension age, they will remain skeletons of a technology that failed us and will not be replaced.
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Fracking has Made America Great Again, becoming the world’s biggest oil producer. During Trump-1, LNG was being shipped to Europe, until Biden banned it, most probably to appease Putin who was selling his gas to the traitor of the EU, Germany. Trump had imposed sanctions on Putin’s gas pipeline to Germany, Nord Stream-2, only for these sanctions to be lifted as soon as Biden got into the Oval Office. Nord Strean 2 was completed earlier on during Biden’s presidency when Putin invaded Ukraine to take it.
Germany was buying gas from Putin, money that Putin used to finance his military to then invade Ukraine to take it all. He had already taken parts of Ukraine twice with Europe and Obama looking the other way. During Trump-1, Putin played the saint, only to invade Ukraine to take it as soon as Nord Stream-2 was ready after Biden’s lifting of Trump-imposed sanctions.
The evil empire that is the EU needs to be cleaned out of existence.
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The Common Market was a wonderful, successful idea. Recreated the marketing advanages of the 350 cities in the Hanseatic league.
The European Commission was equally succssful, introducing the Schengen zone for easy travel and trade and a single currency for many smaller countries.
The European Union is an unnecessary relatively recent creation which tries to emulate the great federations like the UK or USA or India, far stronger together.
In fact recent EU is totally an economic and cultural and undemocratic disaster for the smaller states and seemingly just a sneaky way for France and Germany to dominate as they did under Hitler and Napoleon and the Holy Roman Empire.
Worse, the Eurocrats in Brussels, Stuttgart and Luxembourg are always to crate a European Army. To fight Russia and America, not the Muslim Ottoman Empire. This created an unrepresentative and destructive and expensive duplication of services and taxes without being any real form of representative democracy with a real enemy. The EU needs Russia as a perpetual enemy to justify the EU even while desperately needing Russia oil and gas and minerals. Which was the basis of WWII, unresolved. You have to think that Germany, France and Britian are still fighting the Napoleonic wars, Crimean war, WW1 and WW2.
The EU and UN are both huge bureaucratic disasters which have done far more damage than good. The European states need to abanadoned the EU and go back to the EC which worked. And stop the perpetual and self justifying wars with Russia which have run for over 200 years.
And since the 1920s and WWII specifically, the massive conflict has always been about oil and gas for Europe. Which remains unresolved. Especially when member states like Britain and Norway shut down working gas and oil fields on a make believe science agenda of man made CO2 driven global warming. Where is this warming in Europe in the last 100 years? Except for a few hot days maybe in the middle of summer in a world which is now airconditioned? Global Warming still requires statistical analysis just to be claimed. Winters are still lethal, far more lethal in Europe than the summers.
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And perhaps the only good which has come from the total waste of money and resource in the Global Warming CO2 scam is the massive increase in fuel efficiency, for all the wrong reasons.
It reminds me of the development of sewage, starting in London on the wrong idea that the stench, the ‘miasma’ was responsible for killing 3,000 people a day at the peak with cholera. Removing the stench actually ended the cholera plague, which was a huge surprise. And more recently the political war on CO2 and the development of electronics and battery technology has likely doubled or tripled the effective world reserves of oil, gas and coal.
Unfortunately it also has created the idea that running out of fossil fuels is a temporary problem and has perversely led to countries closing off fossil fuel sources too early or entirely. And this has led to their accidental preservation.
However Australia is a basket case, entirely the fault of blatantly communist Australian politicians whose agenda is purely destructive, keeping it all in the ground for their Chinese masters. The hundreds of billions spent on Chinese windmills and solar panels and distribution is massively impacting Australian ecosystems. This is just coming home to roost. Especially with the recent realisation after the war in Iran that the economy is very fragile and utterly dependent on imported liquid fossil fuels for 2/3 of the energy needs, not coal based electricity. This seems to be a great shock to the idiots of Canberra, Albo Akbah and Ping Pong who are flying around Asia asking for help from far smarter people who also have no oil but better planners. It cements our image as the lucky country, managed by utter incompetents.
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TdeF,
The madness has been assisted by major political parties adopting, agreeing to or doing dirty deals with Greens. Why should Greens, who typically get about 10% of the vote in diverse elections, be listened to at all?
One Nation is basically an anti-Green party with about a similar 10% vote potential. It has a chance to offset future Green nonsense, less chance to reverse past Green stuff.
For example, the ban on nuclear reactors for electricity was done by Libs when Morrison was PM as part of a deal. It has no place in present and future Australia and must be reversed. We cannot continue to be governed by laws from tiny minority pressure groups.
It will take a few years from now for Australia to return to the familiar two major party structure that is also so prevalent elsewhere in history. In those years when our politics reorganises, beware of more communist/socialist minority green whiteanting. Geoff S
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This article is kind of much ado about nothing; the Noggie government sings the green tune, but they know which side their bread is buttered on and all of these developments were in the pipeline for some time now.
The 70 ‘new’ exploration sites are actually blocks being awarded in mostly mature areas, near aging platforms with the intent of keeping them in operation a decade or so longer in order to to defer the inevitable decommissioning of said platforms. That is the same rationale for finally developing Eirin, which lies close enough to the Gjøa semisubmersible platform to produce back to it at a time when it’s own field is nearing depletion.
The reopening of three ‘old’ fields is a function of oil price and have all been in the pipeline for some years (although I don’t see them identified in this article, they’re ConocoPhilips operated Albuskjell, Vest Ekofisk and Tommeliten Gamma which were all shut down in 1998 as a result of a 40% collapse in oil prices). There is ongoing planning to ressurect the Frigg field which straddles the Norway-UK border which was decommissioned in 2004 having recovered around 50% of its proven reserves.
A point of order, Rosebank and Jackdaw aren’t in Norway, those are both on the UK continental shelf and both have been long delayed by greenprick’s lawfare and the UK ineptocrats sitting on the fence trying to please everyone. To be pedantic, Rosebank and Jackdaw are no longer Equinor and Shell fields respectively, both are now part of the portfolio of Adura (joint venture entity created by merging the UK assets of both companies, one suspects ahead of offloading the lot and getting the hell out of the basket case that Blighty has become).
If the government of the people’s republic of Norgrey announces the opening of exploration in the Lofoten Islands, and formally annouce the end of the CCS pipedream once they’re done with Northern Lights phase-2 (which would be little more than an admission of the practical reality at this stage, given how all the promised new projects have ground to a halt) then I’ll be impressed that they have finally seen the light. It will also be worth seeing what 70% state-owned Equinor does when BP sells half it’s stake in the UK CCS project NEP, that would leave Equinor holding the baby as the majority owner, will they stay or will they go? I suspect the sunk cost fallacy might kick in, but then after two years stubbornly clinging to the government directed green pipedream while every other sensible operator wound back their green energy sex-change ambitions as fast as they could, Equinor has finally followed the crowd and backpedalled a lot of the green ‘ambition’, blaming ‘the market is not ready’ for the back pedalling.
Watch the Netherlands; if they desist the premature decommissioning of the Groeningen field and reopen it for production, you know the Eurotards have finally woken up to some energy realities. I don’t hold my breath though; as I see it, Europe is circling the bottom of the toilet bowl before they disappear around the S-bend.
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My apologies, Eirin is close to the big old man Ekofisk, not near Gjøa – I mistook Eirin for the entirely ‘new’ field development of satellite discoveries near Gjøa that were uneconomic when they were discovered plus a new discovery made last year.
It takes a big man to admit he was wrong, but I’m only 1.6m tall, so I’m not a big man 🙂
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