Peak Oil Review –April 28th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Nigeria
– Grangemouth
– Natural Gas Prices
– Energy Briefs
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil – Apr 28
Opec warns oil could reach $200
NY Times: Even amid high oil prices, troubling signs in production
Heinberg: It’s happening (+ coal + when technology fails)
Ben Bova: What has changed since last gas crisis?
Prices & supplies – Apr 28
Oil may hit $200 as refiners buy costlier crude, Verleger says
Brazil oil trapped in 500-degree heat, metal-crushing pressure
Middle East – Apr 27
Gulf’s problem: how to spend it
Saudi output growth can help forestall peak oil, Bernstein says
Energy crisis forces India to join Iran gas pipeline project
Producers – Apr 27
Forties pipeline shutdown begins (TOD covers Grangemouth)
Protest in Mexico’s Congress over Pemex oil bill ends
Gas goes global
Climate – Apr 27
Is 450 ppm politically possible? Impact of peak oil and peak coal
North Pole could be ice free in 2008
Plan to reverse global warming could backfire
Extinction threatened people 70,000 years ago – climate
More coins in the fuse box
Even as the signs of a growing oil crisis gather around us, there are those who prefer to put coins in the fuse box. I am referring, of course, to the very dangerous practice of putting a coin in a fuse box where the fuse ought to go.
Peak oil – Apr 27
Christopher Harvie, New Scotsman
Mark Hertsgaard, The Nation
J. Robinson West, Public Interest
Lyssa Beyer, student editor
Right-wing pundits
Raymond J. Learsy, Huffington Post
Michael C. Ruppert, From The Wilderness
Coal in Europe – Apr 25
Europe turns back to coal, raising climate fears
Falling Polish coal output raises energy security fears
Peak oil – Apr 25
Simmons: Has Twilight In The Desert begun?
Peak oil interview with Prof Peter Newman
James Kunstler in Business Week
Le Québec pourrait manquer de pétrole dès 2030
PO is real, it’s time economists faced up
Oil prices & supplies – Apr 25
Grangemouth strike to close pipeline at cost of £50m a day
Russia’s oil production is about to peak
There’s more to $120 oil than speculation: Jeffrey Brown’s Export Land Model
‘Age of scarcity’ will drive oil to $225 US a barrel: CIBC
Peak oil – Apr 24
Where the oil rally goes
Russian oil has `peaked,’ billionaire Vekselberg says
The Bakken Formation: How much will it help?
