Climate Change

[MNW67]

save yourself not the planet

You should trademark that and start selling T-shirts.

 

[Highway Man]

You should trademark that and start selling T-shirts.

I could do TV adverts showing me seductively moving arounnd my house turning lights and and walking away. Leaning against my wall and turning my stat up whilst looking sexy into the camera.

 

[MNW67]

I could do TV adverts showing me seductively moving arounnd my house turning lights and and walking away. Leaning against my wall and turning my stat up whilst looking sexy into the camera.

Do it! Do it!

 

[Munroast]

I was talking about the energy security of Europe as a whole.

But I am happy to discuss your UK specific points.

As regards gas, do you accept the industry view that if we relied on our own production for all our gas needs then we would run out in three years time.

Oil is trickier. Part of the issue is like the USA in reverse. They can't refine their own sweet, light crude. We can't currently refine the sour, heavy crude which now makes up most of the North Sea production. I agree that we could spend billions adapting our refineries with cokers. But even then, we can only produce 60% of our oil needs and that is declining all the time.

like many of these things, as gas prices rise, more of ours becomes viable (we have way more than 3 years)
60% is a lot better than 0%
lets keep our foot in the game whilst moving as rapidly as we can to renewables

 

[MNW67]

like many of these things, as gas prices rise, more of ours becomes viable (we have way more than 3 years)
60% is a lot better than 0%
lets keep our foot in the game whilst moving as rapidly as we can to renewables

This would be a starting point. From the Oil and Gas Authority:

This is the previous one:

 

[fillyboy]

This would be a starting point. From the Oil and Gas Authority:

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This is the previous one:

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So, how come Norway are continuing to make new discoveries, drill new wells and increase reserves?

It's the same North Sea we're talking about isn't it?

 

[aveatry]

So, how come Norway are continuing to make new discoveries, drill new wells and increase reserves?

It's the same North Sea we're talking about isn't it?

They are sticking their pipe in our crude.

 

[King Billy]

So, how come Norway are continuing to make new discoveries, drill new wells and increase reserves?

Several things to bear in mind:
1. Norway's recent discoveries of new fields are mainly for natural gas, which is the greenest form of fossil fuel
2. No-one is suggesting that fossil fuels will not be needed by someone for the next x number of years.
3. The new Norway discoveries are relatively easily accessible.
4. Norway currently have the highest achievement for producing Green energy for home use.

If some continue to need fossil fuels, why not make natural gas, the greenest form of fossil fuel, more readily available than less green forms of energy.

 

[Dec27]

Leaning against my wall and turning my stat up whilst looking sexy into the camera

Don’t you have an app enabled stat ?

 

[Highway Man]

Don’t you have an app enabled stat ?

yes I have a nest, I just turn it to full and leave it, I find that if the house gets too hot then I just open windows.

 

[MNW67]

So, how come Norway are continuing to make new discoveries, drill new wells and increase reserves?

It's the same North Sea we're talking about isn't it?

I don't know enough about the oil and gas industry. I have found out that, in total, we have both extracted roughly the same amount so far over the past six decades. But Norway has a lot more left than we do. From what I have read, they were probably just lucky to have bigger reserves in their sector. But there is some hinting that the way they have gone about it is more strategic and has meant that they have been able to extract it more efficiently. Finding a very good answer has been hard, though.

 

[fillyboy]

Several things to bear in mind:
1. Norway's recent discoveries of new fields are mainly for natural gas, which is the greenest form of fossil fuel
2. No-one is suggesting that fossil fuels will not be needed by someone for the next x number of years.
3. The new Norway discoveries are relatively easily accessible.
4. Norway currently have the highest achievement for producing Green energy for home use.

If some continue to need fossil fuels, why not make natural gas, the greenest form of fossil fuel, more readily available than less green forms of energy.

I don't know enough about the oil and gas industry. I have found out that, in total, we have both extracted roughly the same amount so far over the past six decades. But Norway has a lot more left than we do. From what I have read, they were probably just lucky to have bigger reserves in their sector. But there is some hinting that the way they have gone about it is more strategic and has meant that they have been able to extract it more efficiently. Finding a very good answer has been hard, though.

Most of the things I've read point to the high taxes on oil companies in UK.
Not relevant, but the main player in Norway is a state owned company and a long time ago, maybe the early 70's they set up a sovereign wealth fund fund using excess funds from oil revenues, worth a bout 2 trillion dollars today.