Geopolitics – Apr 8
New book from Michael Klare: Rising Powers, Shrinking Planet
China’s shopping spree for resources
Battle for Basra timeline: footsteps to US war in Iran?
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil – Apr 8
Matt Simmons sounds the alarm at EIA conference
Kazakhstan may impose oil duty from 2008
Minister: Australia’s own ‘peak oil’
Trinidad: Sweet in we mouth
IEA’s Birol says oil prices to stay high
ODAC Newsletter – Apr 4
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Peak Oil Review — April 7th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Prices, Production and Exports
– Electricity Shortages and Diesel
– Rice, Inflation and Oil
– Massachusetts Hosts a Meeting
– Energy Briefs
Mideast oil exporters – Apr 6
Energy demand in Gulf States to curtail oil exports
Dubai power shortage continues to deepen
Qatar says it will continue to peg its currency to the falling dollar
Iranian Pres. calls for joint OPEC bank, currency
Peak oil – Apr 6
How realistic is EIA’s US domestic oil supply and demand forecast?
Byron King: The U.S. oil supply – a look at our future oil needs
Peak oil and “Transport Revolutions” (new book)
How long can oil fuel our leisure?
ODAC Guest Commentary – Colombia oil reserves
…large reserves numbers relayed by ANH, Colombia’s national hydrocarbons agency, whose aim is to set out details of a Colombian licensing round, must be taken in context. Especially when the numbers are conflated with a target output hoped for over a period of just a decade. It takes many years to develop heavy oil reserves even in accessible areas.
Peak oil – Apr 3
Peak oil may worsen the climate crisis
Former OPEC official: Seeking a more stable oil market
Peak Oil 101
Shell CEO: Easy-to-produce oil, gas to peak in next decade
Russian March oil output falls again
Coal – Apr 3
Seeking clean coal science ‘only option’
UK
coal power policy under attack from top scientists
Iraq war – Apr 3
Iran torpedoes US plans for Iraqi oil (Basra)
Military feels the gouge of fuel costs as Iraq, allies watch oil profits soar
Farrakhan: Is oil the motive for war?
Transport – Apr 3
Truckers protest high fuel prices
Life without transport by oil is closer than we think
Former Exxon insider: People driving their cars to the end of the oil age
Aloha Airlines halting passenger service
Oil execs asked to justify huge profits at Congressional hearing
The executives of the five biggest oil companies were called to testify at a congressional hearing on Tuesday. Lawmakers took them to task for making enormous profits but investing next to nothing in renewable sources of energy. (Excerpts from testimony) Followed by commentary from analyst Steve Kretzmann of Oil Change International.
