A fire is raging at the Poly-America manufacturing plant in Grand Prairie, Texas. As usual, no real details. All I can make out so far is that is was started by a downed powerline. It appears that the facility makes polyethylene and makes things like plastic bags, but I am not sure. What does seem…
Itasca, IL, 8/18/2020 – The National Safety Council is highly alarmed to see that the mortality numbers for COVID-19 already have surpassed the total annual number of preventable, accidental deaths in 2018, the most recent year of final data – and it is only August. At this pace, COVID-19 likely will be the third leading…
Dr. Atlas is a Hoover Institution Fellow and Professor of Medicine at Stanford University. He is an outspoken critic of COVID-19 lock downs. President Trump added Atlas to his COViD-19 task force this month. He is a good addition and I am glad to see him there. But, who is he? What I mean is,…
WASHINGTON, 8/17/2020 - The Trump administration on Monday finalized its plan to open up the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge to oil and gas development, setting the stage for what is expected to be a fierce legal battle over the fate of a vast, remote Alaska habitat. The Interior Department said it had completed its required…
Living in this age of COVID-19, the book by Alexis de Tocqueville, "Democracy In America", keeps recurring in my mind. The book comes in two volumes, published in 1835 and 1840. de Tocqueville was the French Minister of Foreign Affairs in the early 1800s. He was taking a survey of the United States, but, personally,…
August 12, 2020 - Brazilian oil company Petrobras is looking to sell at least half of its stake in a 698 square-kilometer pre-salt block in the Santos Basin offshore Brazil. Petrobras launched a teaser on Monday for the sale of 50% to 100% of its stake in the concession name BM-S-51 . Read more: http://www.oedigital.com/news/480872-petrobras-selling-stake-in-santos-basin-block?utm_source=AOGDigital-ENews-2020-08-13&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=OEGDigital-ENews
The EIA published its Weekly Petroleum Status Report. Here are some highlights. All items are in millions of barrels per day except inventories, which is billions total. Dates are defined as week ending averages, except utilization rate which is a four week ending average. The full report can be found here. Item 8/7/20 7/31/20 Refinery…
