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Mar 19, 2013
by Roger Blanchard, ASPO-USA
A lot has been made in the media about how rapidly oil production is increasing in North Dakota due to development of tight oil in the Bakken Shale region of the state. Less has been made of the rapidly increasing oil production in Texas. According to United States Department of Energy/Energy …
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Feb 27, 2013
by John Michael Greer, The Archdruid Report
It’s been a little more than a year since I launched the present series of posts on the end of America’s global empire and the future of democracy in the wake of this nation’s imperial age. Over the next few posts I plan on wrapping that theme up and moving on. However …
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Feb 25, 2013
by Randy Udall, ASPO-USA
The combination of horizontal drilling, hydraulic fracturing, 3D seismic surveys, and other gee-wizardry has produced a near-miracle, which has left experts confounded, politicians exuberant, and journalists suffering from hyperbole.
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Feb 19, 2013
by Kjell Aleklett, Aleklett's Energy Mix
“Many small creeks make a large stream” is a Swedish saying that describes well the production of shale oil and shale gas. Equivalent English sayings are, “Many a little makes a mickle”, (that originated in Scotland and then President George Washington used in a text of …
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Feb 1, 2013
by Kjell Aleklett, Aleklett's Energy Mix
Since the IEA presented its World Energy Outlook report of 2012 the world’s press has spread the news that the USA can become a larger oil producer than Saudi Arabia. They have also reported on increased production of shale gas. During recent years production of shale gas has increased so …
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Jan 17, 2013
by Chris Martenson, Peak Prosperity
[Many longtime followers of the Crash Course have asked Chris to update his forecasts for Peak Oil in light of the production increases in shale oil and gas over recent years. What started out as a modest effort at clarification morphed into a much more massive 3-report treatise as Chris sifted …
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Dec 11, 2012
by Post Carbon Institute Staff, Post Carbon Institute
Check out this campaign by Loudsauce.com. They've selected PCI's latest video as a candidate for broad media exposure.
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Nov 23, 2012
by ODAC staff, Oil Depletion Analysis Centre
A week of brutal bombing and rocket fire between Israel and Hamas pushed oil prices back to around $110/barrel this week. A fragile ceasefire is now in place, but there is much concern that it will be short-lived. Oil market news may all be about US production, but it is primarily the politics …
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Nov 21, 2012
by Roger Blanchard, ASPO-USA
Recent US news reports have highlighted the fact that US oil production has been rising and is now higher than it has been in years. Reports that highlight the recent US oil production increase don't mention that oil production outside of Texas and North Dakota has actually declined in the last …
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Nov 19, 2012
by Resilience.org Staff, Resilience.org
•US shale oil abundance: Bernstein vs the IEA •US limits oil-shale development in Rocky Mountains •Fracking: A new dawn for misplaced optimism •Nigeria Exxon spill spreads for miles along coast •Thousands Protest Keystone XL Oil Pipeline Outside White …
