Harry Silver 🇸🇦

Energy systems modeler

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

Oil use by Saudi utilities and industry will be primarily displaced by natural gas and renewable energy.

The easiest oil to displace will happen first. Then, as the marginal effort to displace oil rises, the pace of displacement will slow.

Source: https://t.co/JRW8CgGqF3

#oott

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

Oops.

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

TRUMP ON IRAN: CLOSE TO A DEAL

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

The fact that Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, and the UAE are reducing oil production means that the closure of the Hormuz Strait is removing some of the world's low-methane-emitting oil from the market.

#oott #climatechange

[KAPSARC | كابسارك @KAPSARC]

Methane intensity varies significantly across major oil and gas producers, by up to eight times between comparable countries.

This chart ranks 29 producers by methane intensity (kg per barrel of oil equivalent). Norway leads at 0.01 kg/boe, followed by Saudi Arabia at 0.39, Australia, and the United Kingdom.

As the EU's Methane Emissions Reduction Regulation (MERR) and Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) take effect, these differences will have growing implications for market access and competitiveness.

#KAPSARC examines what these EU regulations mean for major crude oil exporters.

Read the full paper: https://t.co/ks4dsVuGzR

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

Seems like the LSU Energy Institute will be a Louisiana state government entity, akin to the EIA for the federal government.

[LSU Energy Institute @LSUEnergy]

During this legislative session the LSU Energy Institute was formally incorporated into Louisiana statute. The Energy Institute is now LSU’s long-term home for energy-focused research, public engagement, & applied analysis.

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[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

Building something that is difficult to replicate takes time. While each additional feature may involve a manageable marginal effort/cost, the cumulative effect of many incremental improvements can create a barrier to replication.

Then, you’d have built something truly valuable.

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

Aramco's data show that its energy intensity in 2025 was 164.3 thousand Btu per boe of oil and natural gas produced.

This means Aramco used approximately 0.028 boe of energy to produce 1 boe of oil and gas, up from 0.020 boe in 2021.

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

Despite all the bombastic rhetoric, Biden outperformed Trump in attracting actual dollars to expand U.S. manufacturing.

[Financial Times @FT]

Trump’s pledge to unleash a ‘golden age’ of US manufacturing sputters https://t.co/SMb7Scerp3

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

This 2017 paper finds that U.S. shale oil output may have permanently made oil markets more competitive: https://t.co/hezshyY1py.

Since, U.S. shale oil production has expanded, Qatar and the UAE have left OPEC, and OPEC+ has been formed. Has the market become more competitive?

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

@majed966 If you keep the energy contents unchanged, the calculation results in their number. This suggests they made a mistake.

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

Pledges of CO2 emissions reductions must be verified by independent parties.

#climatechange

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

Switching 48 million liters of diesel to LPG requires ≈72 million liters of LPG. It appears @TanmiahFood may not have accounted for that. Actual CO₂ reductions would be closer to 20,000 t/yr.

The 60,000 tCO₂ figure would only hold if 48 million L are assumed for LPG, as well.

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

@ZiadMDaoud @TheTerminal Let’s be reminded why we are in this mess:
https://t.co/TCoZdIpnbe

[Joe Kent @joekent16jan19]

After much reflection, I have decided to resign from my position as Director of the National Counterterrorism Center, effective today.

I cannot in good conscience support the ongoing war in Iran. Iran posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel and its powerful American lobby.

It has been an honor serving under @POTUS and @DNIGabbard and leading the professionals at NCTC.

May God bless America.

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

@majed966 True. US oil and gas production is more CO2 emissions intensive than that of Saudi Arabia.

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

Aramco’s upstream carbon intensity was 10 kgCO2/boe in 2025. It was 9.1 in 2018. The rise is attributed to the expansion of natural gas.

The company is sticking by its 2035 target of 7.7 kgCO2/boe, which will be achieved by less flaring, carbon capture, and better monitoring.

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

Further, Aramco managed to reduce natural gas flaring by *up to* 1.3 billion scf (standard cubic feet) in 2025. This was mostly at the Hawiyah Gas Plant in Alahsaa area of Saudi Arabia.

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

Aramco’s upstream carbon intensity was 10 kgCO2/boe in 2025. It was 9.1 in 2018. The rise is attributed to the expansion of natural gas.

The company is sticking by its 2035 target of 7.7 kgCO2/boe, which will be achieved by less flaring, carbon capture, and better monitoring.

[Arab News @arabnews]

#BREAKING: Senior Iranian officer says renewed war with US 'inevitable': state TV https://t.co/Il7QsmLt9i

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

Construction of Jeddah Tower has reached the 102nd floor.

[Abdullah AL-Khmais @AZK_SA]

برج جدة 🗼 .. الوصول للدور 102

الهدف 200 طابق.

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

M_j are all actions that households can take to conserve electricity in the event that electricity prices are raised.

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

Physical laws and economics interact with one another all the time. In these papers, the author tries to embed an economic agent (that allocates funds given its preferences) inside a physical building energy model.

https://t.co/TA9V5uhgZI

https://t.co/K87OxQxswe

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

@JavierBlas Like Trump University, Trump Steaks, the Trump tariffs,…

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

@GerberKawasaki Not meaningless. Some of lowest-cost oil, gas, petrochemicals, and fertilizers exit from the Strait of Hormuz. It’s not just about the quantity that is lost. It’s also about the cost to produce that quantity relative to other producers.

[Harry Silver 🇸🇦 @HarrySilver17]

As cash usage gradually declines, so does the number of ATMs/cash machines in Saudi Arabia. In April 2026, there were 14,500 ATMs nationwide; the fewest since April 2014.