The mask of altruism disguising a colonial war
Oil will be the driving factor for military intervention in Sudan.
Trinidad: Beyond petroleum, what?
The hope that new technology will increase these production stocks is largely an illusion as its main effect is to deplete the field faster.
Sudan – The mask of altruism disguising a colonial war
Oil will be the driving factor for military intervention in Sudan. Oddly enough, the oil concession in southern Darfur is currently in the hands of the China National Petroleum Company. China is Sudan’s biggest foreign investor.
Energy crisis ahead
We know oil prices are at a record high. Production has peaked. No major new fields are being discovered. We are running out of oil, except in the Middle East and parts of Africa.
Greatest threat to U.S. is economic
Taken together, the US’s economic challenges represent a series of bombs placed at the foundations of our society, and they are capable of exploding in ways that would touch more Americans than anything even the most sophisticated terrorists could devise.
US destabilization in Latin American geopolitics has makings of real problems (excerpt)
The Venezuelan government say they reserve the right to suspend oil shipments to the USA in case of an eventual conflict or aggression.
Crisis, crunch or crumble: after Yukos, it’s time we started fearing for the future of Saudi oil
Sixty per cent of Saudi production comes from the ‘King of Kings’ field. If this starts to decline, production has peaked.
Simmons hopes he’s wrong
Leading energy analyst believes Saudi Arabia’s crude oil supply near peak; calls for greater global reserve transparency to anticipate ‘cataclysm’
Global oil production now flat out
By the time this is being read, currently available oil production capacity all around the world will be producing flat out. How sustainable this proves to be remains to be seen.
‘Can’t Blair see that this country is about to explode? Can’t Bush?
The Prime Minister has accused some journalists of almost wanting a disaster to happen in Iraq. Robert Fisk, who has spent the past five weeks reporting from the deteriorating and devastated country, says the disaster has already happened, over and over again
Indonesia and Oman
While much of the world is concerned about whether Saudi Arabia can deliver on its promise to produce an extra 1 million barrels of oil a day, far more attention should be given to OPEC and non-OPEC member countries whose production continues to fall.
Indonesia and Oman – their declines will outweigh Saudi increase
The declining oil production of Indonesia and Oman are greater than Saudi Arabias promised increases. Patterns of accelerated decline do not bode well for other old, aggressively worked, fields.
