World Bank agrees to continue oil, gas lending
The World Bank this week agreed to continue making investments in oil, gas and mining, setting aside an independent review’s recommendations that it phase out lending for such projects.
Yamani: Speculators driving oil surge
Saudi Arabia’s Sheikh Ahmed Zaki Yamani — the face of the OPEC oil cartel during the 1970s oil price shocks — says this time it is big-money speculators to blame for surging prices and confidently predicts the scare will not last.
Fuel stocks adequate, PERTAMINA assures Indonesians
State-owned oil company Pertamina has assured Indonesians that the local fuel supply will remain safe despite the soaring price of oil on global markets.
Japan and Iran: Partners in Oil
The United States is attempting to convince Japan to ditch Iran as an oil supplier in favor of Libya. Though such an arrangement would greatly assist U.S. strategic aims in the Middle East, it would make sense to Japan only if Iran were plunged into war.
US: Higher oil prices barely dent demand growth
Record oil prices above $40 a barrel are barely curbing surging demand growth in major consuming nations, despite concern over the economic fallout of higher energy costs.
Running on Empty: A field guide to the coming fuel crunch
Five minutes before he was supposed to take the stage, Marion King Hubbert’s bosses at Shell Oil called him on the phone and begged him not to go through with it.
The death of cheap crude
Oil prices are in a state of flux or so we are told. But the truth of the matter may be far simpler than that; maybe production cannot meet soaring global demand.
No easy fix for our Saudi oil habit
If production in the desert kingdom has in fact peaked, as some experts say, the alternatives aren’t easy, if they exist at all.
California’s SUV Ban
Cities throughout California—the nation’s largest car market—prohibit the heaviest SUVs on many of their residential roads. The problem is, they don’t seem to know they’ve done it.
Another View on Oil
Cal Tech professor David Goodstein says the worldwide peak for production could be reached in 10 years or less resulting in severe inflation and economic ruin.
Morgan Stanley cuts European oil sector
Morgan Stanley on Wednesday cut its weighting on the European oil sector to “neutral”, saying sky-high prices could fall by $15-$20 a barrel in a short time.
Iraq surveys its oil fields as prices keep bubbling
The Iraq Oil Ministry is undertaking the most comprehensive evaluation ever of the giant oil fields that are the country’s biggest natural resource, an important first step toward understanding the potential output of the fields and estimating the amount of investment needed.
