Kremlin prepares to seize Yukos’s oil
The battle for control of Yukos, the Russian oil giant, has taken a fresh twist after it emerged that the country’s authorities have drawn up secret plans to seize control of the group’s oil.
Oil driving US’ move on Sudan
Darfur, the international community unanimously agrees, is “the worst humanitarian crisis of our time”.
Canada to map Beaufort Sea
Low-level tensions between Canada and the United States over sovereignty of an offshore sliver in the Beaufort Sea are moving from simmer to boil.
The Russian Federal Energy Agency on the end of cheap oil
“I believe Humanity must grow accustomed to living with an expensive oil, to treat hydrocarbons as a non-renewable resource and to look for alternative energy sources. It seems that oil is not going to get cheaper.”
UK: Nobel prize-winner’s reactor offers safer, cleaner nuclear power
Claims that a “revolutionary nuclear reactor that can recycle its own waste is being studied by the Government as a future source of energy for Britain.”
Simmons: The Implications of Saudi Arabian Oil Declining (video)
Online video of two panel discussions exploring "How Stable Is the House of Saud?" and "An Impending Energy Crisis?"
World’s Proven Reserves Jump 100 Gb in 2003?
British Petroleums latest statistical review of energy reserves and consumption shows a glaring discrepancy compared to last year – the magical appearance of an additional 100 billion barrels of oil!
No pleasant surprises in the new oil order
The Saudi officials’ announcement that they were satisfied with the current level of world oil prices may constitute an implicit fait accompli, an acceptance of their inability to increase production substantially beyond current levels, bringing the days of peak oil production ominously closer.
Drip-dripping away
Review of Paul Robert’s book The End of Oil.
Philippines asks China to ‘desist’ from provocative acts in Spratlys
The Philippines called on China on Saturday to “desist” from provocative actions in the disputed Spratly islands region after reports a Chinese company was exploring for oil and gas near the area.
China: Power shortage: 6,400 factories to go off-line
Due to summer’s unquenchable power thirst, about 6,400 industrial enterprises in and around Beijing will be shut down for a week.
Brinkmanship In The South Pacific
I would venture to speculate that the coming together of the strongest armada in history has more to do with oil and natural gas and nothing to do with Taiwan.
