For better or worse, China is stuck on coal
The fate of the sleepy mining town of Sandaoling — and of the entire country and its booming economy — is tied to coal.
Methane Burps: Ticking Time Bomb
If we trigger this runaway release of methane, there’s no turning back. No do-overs. Once it starts, it’s likely to play out all the way.
China and India’s new thirst for oil brings new dynamics to the market
The huge economic growth in the world’s two most populous nations has already started to put extra strains on the oil market. Could the newly voracious Chinese and Indian thirst for oil also have dangerous strategic implications?
ExxonMobil president sees long-term energy changes
For at least the 3 decades and probably beyond”we will need to find and produce even more oil than we do today, a very challenging responsibility for all of us in the petroleum industry,” said Rex W. Tillerson, president of ExxonMobil Corp.
The Marginal Price of Oil
Many individuals could save themselves a great deal of aggravation by recognizing the fundamental and permanent (or soon-to-be permanent) changes in the crude and products markets instead of berating OPEC and others about some obsolete notion of a fair price for oil.
Scientists debate decline of oil stores: Sooner or later?
Scientists meeting at the American Geophysical Union conference in San Francisco debated Tuesday whether the world has plenty of oil for centuries to come — or if it faces impending shortages that might trigger economic chaos, even war, in coming decades.
End of Oil Could Fuel ‘End of Civilization as We Know It’
Opponents in a long-running debate over when the world will run out of oil squared off Tuesday in a crowded room of scientists, reaching only one conclusion: The supply of fossil fuels is fixed and the world economy will eventually have to wean itself from oil.
For A Change, OPEC Is Worried
Supply is ahead of demand — but falling prices probably won’t last long.
Let’s stop sleepwalking through history
For the last two centuries the burning of fossil fuel – coal, natural gas and crude oil – has been propelling human civilization. But fossil resources are finite – they really will run out – and their use has altered Earth’s atmosphere. On both fronts, Americans are in denial.
Secret and unreliable world of oil statistics
In few industries do statisticians have to behave like spies, but those charged with collecting data on oil supplies have to rely on secret networks of informers in terminals around the world, who monitor tanker timetables and scrutinise shipping movements to report on changes in import and export volumes.
Sustainability planning underway
Some residents of Willits, California are using community planning to prepare local sustainable responses to the coming global energy peak.
The Outlook for the World Oil Market
Lord Browne claims that there are no pressing physical supply constraints on oil.
