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When Richard Heinberg wrote The Party’s Over he expected that global oil production peak would most likely to fall within the window of 2006 to 2015. These days (18 months after the book was finished) he’s “more likely to say 2006 to 2010.” Here’s nine events which explain that.
North America will experience the highest sustained natural gas prices in
history if no measures are taken to boost supply or damp demand, according to a
study released on Friday by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA).
The booklet addresses the topic of Peak Oil in a novel and refreshing way, as a commentary on an imaginary Public Inquiry.
When John Kerry is president, decades-old ties with Saudi Arabia could be in for an overhaul as he combats terrorism and reduces U.S. dependence on Mideast oil.
When geologists speak of Hubbert’s Peak, they’re not talking mountaintops or hairdos. They’re referring to a time – maybe not so far off – when the world will run out of fertile new oilfields and new ways to recover oil, and petroleum supplies will begin an inevitable and maybe very fast slide.
Iraq’s oil production is expected to remain constrained for the next one to two years by ongoing attacks against oil infrastructure, despite the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority’s (CPA) transfer of power to an interim Iraqi government, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said June 28.
Two of Canada’s major oilsands producers are facing lower production targets this year due to unplanned maintenance at their huge open-pit mining operations in northern Alberta.
Behind the debate among Opec members on a reasonable price for their oil lies the urgent need among many of these oil-dependent nations to finance growing government expenditure in the face of rising unemployment and population growth.
Every conflict since World War One has been influenced by oil in some way.
American lobbying adds to pressure as PM battles to keep controversial energy option on climate change agenda.
New Zealand has an abundant wind resource capable of producing up to 20 percent of our electricity needs.
The installation of the Ayad Allawi government in Baghdad may only increase the chaos in the country, which faces the prospect of internal conflicts and balkanisation.
