Fossil Fuels

ODAC Guest Commentary – Richard Pike rebuttal

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Richard Pike is an old BP hand, whose maths is sound. The proved reserve is often defined as that low amount which is 90% likely to be recovered, i.e. almost certain, and is called P90. Proved and probable reserve, or P50, is the amount which is 50% likely to be recovered. P10 also includes the possible, and is only 10% likely to be recovered.

Five nations agree to think about ending oil subsidies

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The day after markets registered the highest single-day rise in crude oil prices ever, the United States and Asia’s four largest economies (Japan, China, India and South Korea), meeting in Aomori, Japan in advance of the G8 Energy Ministers summit, have formed a sort of Petro-holics non-Anonymous club, calling for an end to oil subsidies in their countries.

Consumer subsidies (subsidized fuel prices), that is, not producer subsidies.

OK, what they actually agreed upon was “the need” to remove fuel-price subsidies. Eventually.

ANWR is not the answer

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Americans are easily misled about domestic “supply-side” solutions to rising oil prices and dwindling global exports. Their confusion is understandable. Oil company executives like Shell’s John Hofmeister have called for opening up now restricted areas in Alaska or on the outer continental shelves, implying that salvation is only a few oil wells away.