Urban vs. Rural Sustainability
Cities may survive peak oil better than rural areas. A personal account.
Castro announces crude oil discovery
President Fidel Castro said a crude oil deposit has been discovered off Cuba containing up to 100 million barrels, good news for a country that imports about half the petroleum it needs.
Canada: Natural gas, base metals drive prices to record high
Commodity prices reached a record high during November, and the three-year “bull run” looks as if it will continue at least into the first half of 2005, said Patricia Mohr, vice-president of economics for Bank of Nova Scotia.
State steps in for Yukos oil unit
Russia’s state owned oil firm Rosneft has bought the mystery winner of Yukos’ prize production unit in a move that nationalises 11% of the country’s oil output even as a legal battle rages in America over the sale.
World’s largest methanol plant in Iran
The first phase of a methanol production plant that could become the world’s biggest after completion was inaugurated here Friday by interior ministry and other provincial officials.
Market edges closer to breaking points
When I went to work for Mobil Oil in 1966, M. King Hubbert’s prediction that Lower 48 crude oil production would peak in 1970 was controversial. Debate over the timing of the peak in global oil production can be taken as an indicator that it is getting close.
A Midwinter’s Nightmare
A Peak Oil Nightmare
Russia: Experts Say ’05 Oil Growth to Slow
Russia’s oil output and export growth is likely to slow by almost 40 percent in 2005 as the ruin of top major Yukos, higher taxes and a pipeline bottleneck put the brakes on a five-year boom.
A Christmas Wishlist from Bagdad…
A Christmas wishlist from from one of the most energy rich nations on Earth but where the electricity rarely functions…
China invests heavily in Sudan’s oil industry
LEAL, Sudan — On this flat and dusty African plain, China’s largest energy company is pumping crude oil, sending it 1,000 miles upcountry through a Chinese-made pipeline to the Red Sea, where tankers wait to ferry it to China’s industrial cities.
Enbridge May Offer China Oil-Sands Pipeline Stake
Enbridge Inc. may offer an equity stake in a Canadian oil sands pipeline to a Chinese investor, but is concentrating efforts on attracting shippers for the C$2.5 billion ($2 billion) proposal, a spokesman said on Thursday.
Renewable Energy Markets (US)
Analysis of how US customers buy into biomass energy technologies, examples of renewable power suppliers, how Renewable Energy Certificates work, and where providers are now operating.
