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BBC Feb 11: “The world debate: fuelling the future”
BBC
Broadcast date: 11 February 2006
A debate from the Middle East that examines major policy issues facing energy consumption and the challenges confronting the world in developing sustainable alternatives.
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In his State of the Union address, President George W. Bush acknowledged that the US is addicted to oil and needs to wean itself off. There’s been a sea change in the structure of the energy market; a shortage of refining capacity; demand greater than supply; political instability in the Middle East and in other oil producing regions; and new players on the scene. Russia has held Europe to ransom over its gas supplies; Iranian oil is at risk because of the political confrontation with the West over its nuclear programme, and there’s a race to exploit new sources of hydrocarbons between Western and Chinese companies.
The World Debate asks what the implications of these changes are for the Middle East and for the rest of the globe. Have companies and governments done enough to prepare for this changing world? At what point do oil and the Middle East become the past and another source of energy? And will another region emerge as the future?
Guests:
Wim Thomas – Head of Energy Team, Shell International …
Maqbool bin ali Sultan – Minister of Commerce and Industry, Oman …
Walid Khadduri – Energy expert …
Kevin Rosner – Senior Fellow, Institute for the Analysis of Global Security, Washington…
Yang Fuqiang – Head of the Energy Foundation, Beijing …
(February 2006)
Recommended by “smiffy” at www.peakoil.com/fortopic17094.html .
BBC Feb 11: “What price oil?”
BBC
Broadcast date: 11 February 2006
What’s driving the price of oil – is it supply or demand? – is it China and India or Katrina? And what does this mean for the suppliers like the Gulf States who are looking at what to do when the oil wells dry up. And what about economies like India and China demanding more and buying up oil fields around the World to ensure supply. Who will hold the power of tomorrow’s oil and what does this mean for the developed economies?
(February 2006)
Recommended by “smiffy” at www.peakoil.com/fortopic17094.html .
Addiction to oil – see what it looks like
Jerome a Paris
I have been sent an extremely interesting presentation by Dr Steven Koonin, the chief scientist at BP (it can be downloaded from this page) which includes a few graphs and tables that shed a harsh light on our addiction on oil.
…BP kindly rates the various solutions we have to improve things by their impact on oil supplies (the lower on the graph, the least impact on fuel consumption) and on carbon emissions (the more to the right, the less emissions):
…None of the solutions proposed by Bush/Cheney do anything about emissions, and most of their solutions show scant regard for future availability issues.
(3 February 2006)
Interview with UK comedian Robert Newman (AUDIO)
David Room, Global Public Media
UK Comedian Robert Newman talks to GPM’s David Room about America, peak oil and comedy.
Also see It’s capitalism or a habitable planet – you can’t have both: an article by Rob Newman.
(26 January 2006)
5º International ASPO Conference – July 18-19 Italy
Ugo Bardi, ASPO-Italia
The Fifth International Conference of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO-5) will be held in San Rossore (near Pisa) in Italy, on July 18-19 2006.
The conference will collect international experts in the field of oil, gas, and mineral resources, in order to analyze the consistence of the reserves, evaluate the prospects for minerals extraction, raise the awareness of the impending peak in oil extraction, assess the effects of depletion on society, and propose ways to reduce its impact.
Among the speakers who have already agreed to participate in the conference:
* Kjell Aleklett, University of Uppsala, President of ASPO international
* Jean Marie Bourdaire, formerly at WEC, World Energy Council
* Colin Campbell, Honorary president of ASPO and proposer of the “depletion protocol”
* Peter Gerling, member of ASPO and BGR – Bundesanstalt für Geowissenschaften und Rohstoffe
* Richard Heimberg, author of “The Party is Over” and “Powerdown”
* Robert L. Hirsch, SAIC, Science Applications International Corporation
* Jean Laherrere – member of ASPO and one of its founders
* Dennis Meadows, leader of the MIT team that produced the “Limits to Growth” report to the Club of Rome in 1971
The conference will be held in the open air, in the park of San Rossore, near Pisa, an area conveniently located near the international “G. Galilei” airport and a few km from the leaning tower. It is organized by the Italian section of ASPO (ASPO-Italia, www.aspoitalia.net) with the support of the University of Firenze and of the Tuscan Regional Government. The conference language will be English. Attendance fee will be Eur 120 (Eur 25 for students, negotiable for non profit associations).
The submission of scientific contributions for oral presentation or posters is welcome. More details and a pre-registration form can be found at the conference web site at: tinyurl.com/c9b38
For any questions, please contact the organizers at [email protected].
Contact person: Professor Ugo Bardi (Dipartimento di Chimica, Università di Firenze)
(3 February 2006)
ASPO newsletter for February
Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO) – Ireland
Includes:
- Kuwait admits to Exaggerating its Reserves.
- Country Re-Assessment – Colombia
- Europe faces first phase of its Energy Crisis
- Aviation Fuel
- USGS Update
- The New Dinosaurs
- Norway Re-visited
- . ASPO-5
- New Depletion Study by German Government Agency
- Australian Senate Inquiry into Peak Oil
- What they don’t want us to know about the coming oil crisis
- . Motor Industry
- Shell follows Chevron’s lead in admitting to Peak Oil in as many words
- Recent Middle East History
(February 2006)
The PDF version is now available. A web version should be available soon.
