New Oil and Old Hopes – The Bakken Formation

I didn’t know about this one: The Bakken Formation in central USA. A recent U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) report from April 10, 2008 documents the oil reserve in these rocks. Somewhere around 200 billion barrels that lie conveniently in the middle of the USA....
How to Become Insanely Rich

How to Become Insanely Rich

It has been more than 12 years since I built one of my first major capital projects. I was 24 at the time. I hunkered down to do everything that needed to be done to build a major piece of critical infrastructure in a multi-billion dollar refining operation. And I did...

A Note to Arnold Schwarzenegger

I sent this email to Arnold a few days ago. Hi Arnold, I don’t know whether to call you Mr Schwarzenegger, Arnold, or Sir, but as I’ve grown up in Australia and formalities, well just aren’t the thing we focus on, so I figure Arnold will do for now....