Other Energy – Jan 22
Development of Irans Azadegan field delayed / Gas woes hobbling Aussie ammonium plant / Update from US Minerals Management Service on GOM /
Norways Statoil closes production on five fields
Strange ideas about the Iranian oil bourse
The proposed Iranian oil bourse is of very little economic consequence.
Politics and economics – Jan 22
Moscow eats up energy as temperatures drop / Iran cuts natural gas flow to Turkey / China struggling with energy price controls; Renewable Energy Law Takes Effect / Bolivia’s poor have new hope of energy dividend
Kuwait oil reserves only half official estimate-PIW
OPEC producer Kuwait’s oil reserves are only half those officially stated, according to internal Kuwaiti records seen by industry newsletter Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (PIW).
Iraqi oil production choked for years
…”One major challenge in maintaining, let alone increasing, oil production capacity was Iraq’s battle with water cut, especially in the south,” said the EIA report referring to the excess effluent water produced with each barrel of crude.
Grasshoppers and oxen — grassroots responses to peak oil
Grasshoppers and Non-Violent Communication (NVC) are the top two responses to Peak Oil I recommend,” responded Ano. “Oxen would be my first choice,” piped up Mango Jon—a thin and vital 73 years old.
Politics and Economics – Jan 20
Russia Rations Electricity / Italy hit by Russian gas shortage / Castro Announces Major Overhaul & decentralisation of Cuba’s Electrical Grid / Oil-Stung Caribbean Looks at Energy Alternatives / Real wages continue to decline / Forget Cheaper Oil in 2006? / BHP swaps oil rights for shonky debt in Iraq oil for food scam
Other Energy – Jan 20
New study raises questions about sustainability of metal resources / A New Old Way to Make Diesel / U.S. Will Decode Soybean DNA to Ramp Up Biodiesel Production / Waste incineration ‘set to rise’ in UK / Community members speak out on oil shale
What they don’t want you to know about the coming oil crisis
Long (10,000 word) and frank article adapted from the book, “Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis”. Makes the problem case well, views will differ on his optimistic take on potential of renewables.
Peak Oil – Jan 20
Thomas Friedman: Green is the new red, white and blue / Carbon the currency in a world of energy shortage / WELL meets TheOilDrum / Peak Oil: aids, addiction and opportune infections / Peak America – Is Our Time Up? / On Keeping Warm / Review of “Children of the Sun”
Peak Oil – Jan 19
UK MEP demands EU statement on ‘peak oil’ /
Independent: bracing the world for the day when the oil runs out /
BBC on energy depletion, alternative fuels & food security /
Canada’s former Governor General on peak oil /
Kunstler’s backroad trip
Cloudy with a chance of chaos
Climate change may bring more violent weather swings — and sooner — than experts had thought.
(“the most apocalyptic thing I’ve ever seen in a U.S. business publication”)
