Oil supplies and prices – Mar 5
Oil hits $104 as OPEC rebuffs Bush
Non-OPEC oil production likely to disappoint over 2008
Saudi Arabia’s crude oil reserves propaganda
Merrill Lynch: Oil scarcity will dampen world economy
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil – Mar 5
Warren Buffett on net energy and peak oil
WSJ’s Neil King explains PO and oil prices on PBS NewsHour
Peak oil is a cost issue
Oil’s wakeup call
Peak oil – Mar 4
IEA’s Fatih Birol: We can’t cling to crude
Ken Livingstone – Peak oil “opportunity” for London Mayor
Nansen G. Saleri: The world has plenty of oil
Fears of a commodity crash grow (oil too?)
Bread and oil: rising food prices and the Middle East
How lessons from the last oil shocks may help to inform this one
Something historic happened the other day, and it went pretty much unreported. The price of oil reached $102.59. The previous record (adjusted for inflation) had been $102.53 which was set in 1980. We have broken through the ceiling; the Age of Cheap Oil can well and truly said to be a thing of the past.
Russia – Mar 4
Russia reduces NG to Ukraine by a quarter
Russia emerging as a global economic giant
Russian Feb oil exports slump, output stagnates
UK climate policy and activism – Mar 4
Climate camp to target coal power station
PM’s green credentials are not in the bag
Monbiot: Did the Standard tell the truth about the Heathrow climate camp?
Energy policy – Mar 4
Thirsting for energy in India’s boomtowns
OPEC rethinking production cut plans
Will Saudis export their NG?
Inflation and petroleum depletion in Trinidad
Revisiting “The End of Cheap Oil”
Prior to writing the article “The End of Cheap Oil” for the March 1998 issue of Scientific American magazine, Colin Campbell and I wrote four important oil and gas studies totaling about 1350 pages. After publication, our article was chosen as one out of 25 stories in the book Censored 1998, published by Sonoma State University.
Peak Oil Review — March 3rd, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Canada
– $4 Gasoline
– Energy Briefs
Uninvited observations
I understand that the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO) will not always be invited to speak at CERA Week (Cambridge Energy Research Associates annual conference in Houston), but if I had been invited I could have discussed the CERA 2006 forecast of future oil production.
Review: World Made by Hand by James Kunstler
The novel presents a fictional world that is at once idyllic and post-apocalyptic, reassuring and frightening.
Oil prices – Mar 2
Hydrocarbons expert Nicolas Sarkis: ‘world has to get used to high oil prices’
Oil prices to stay above 60-70 dollars: Saudi Arabia
Under the pump (good Australian analysis)
Independent truckers see end of the road
