The end of oil is closer than you think
Oil production could peak next year, reports John Vidal. Just kiss your lifestyle goodbye. [Long serious piece in a major UK newspaper, featuring Collin Campbell, Chris Skrebowski, etc.]
John Vidal
Chomsky on Peak Oil
…there’s a sense in which it’s advantageous if the oil peak is earlier. The reason why is it will compel the world, primarily the U.S. here, to move toward something like sustainable energy.
If there’s unbounded amounts of hydrocarbons, we’re just going to destroy the environment for human life or most biological life, so the earlier the peak is, in some respects – yes, it could be catastrophic, it could also be beneficial.
Energy Headlines – Apr 21, 2005
PO means we need to get out of our cars / IMF urges oil data transparency / Energy bill full of pork / Underwater crystals may yield energy / India loves its trains / Eat local / Cross between car and bike
Energy Headlines – Apr 22, 2005
NG industry insider talks / CS Monitor: Good-bye cheap gas / America’s peak experience / PO a myth, says OPEC / Farmers hear about PO / ODAC report / Greenspan wants an energy policy / Republican says hydrogen is B.S. / more
Former Minister Says Energy Policy Should Be Major Election Issue
Britain’s former Energy Minister Brian Wilson will address Peak Oil, and argue that Britain’s current energy policy is “ripe for review”, at a conference in Edinburgh on Monday, 25 April.
Oil and the Water Pressure Problem
Say you shake a bottle of champagne before opening it, and champagne sprays around and everyone is cheerfully soaked. But if you then put the bottle down, you would see that the gas pressure in the wine, has only pushed out about a third, or less, of the wine out of the bottle. That is, sort of, what happens with an oil well.
Friedman Fighter
Interview with New York Times columnist and “geo-green” advocate Thomas Friedman
Exploration will not provide the oil to match demand
It is more than a year since oil prices doubled, but what are the oil companies doing? Some exploration continues but little net increase in refining capacity is planned and most of their effort seems to be going into mergers and takeovers. What do they know that they haven’t told us?
Are Oil Prices Headed for a ‘Super Spike’?
So just who is this super-spike man, and what in the world was he thinking? Well, his name is Arjun Murti, and he’s a veteran oil analyst and a managing director at Goldman. Press-shy by nature anyway, the poor guy was so unsettled by the reaction to his report that he refused all interview requests—until, that is, I was able to persuade him to take my call.
East: Ukraine, Russia Spar Over Turkmen Gas
A number of unpublished agreements purportedly signed between the governments of Ukraine and Turkmenistan for the purchase of natural gas have inflamed the conflict between Kyiv and Moscow over natural-gas deliveries from Turkmenistan.
Matt Simmons – Twilight In The Desert presentation
For those wanting to know about the situation in Saudi Arabia or wanting an advance look at Simmons’s book “Twilight In The Desert” or what will likely be his presentation in Edinburgh, this PDF presentation will be of key interest.
Bush to raise question of oil production with Saudi Arabia
“I think they’re [the Saudis] near capacity, and so we’ve just got to get a straight answer from the government as to what they think their excess capacity is,” Bush said, adding that he would not characterize the Saudi production as “flat-out” yet. (updated 21 April)
