Oil producers – Nov 21
Nigeria seeks control of energy industry
The 10 oil producers most likely to shock the world (10/tie: Angola/Equatorial Guinea)
Bad news from Canada
New oil crisis: an engineer shortage
Fossil Fuels
Grim visions – Nov 21
Endings aren’t always happy
The freezing point of industrial society
Black Friday: Why this one is especially dark
Peak oil in the media – Nov 21
Houston Chronicle: Crude crunch coming
This week in petroleum
Motley Fool’s new energy blog
Mid-month oil reality check (contango rising)
TOD’s Energy and Environment Round-Up
Thinking peak – Nov 21
Clarke’s wager and the fate of civilization
A new exhibition considers the lessons of the 1973 oil crisis
Give thanks for oil – and OPEC
Industry insider blogging peak oil
A petroleum engineer, former chair of API-Houston, has started a peak oil blog and summarized the recent ASPO-USA conference.
Peak oil – Nov 20
Long-term oil gloom spreads in Houston
Heinberg: preparing for a world without oil
Is the decline of base production accelerating? (“hardcore PO wonkery”)
Decline rates from the megaproject forecasts
Wired on WSJ peak oil article
WSJ takes peak oil seriously – need another fringe topic
Peak oil- How will you ride the slide?
Energy Bulletin on the Reality Report
Climate – Nov 20
Emissions by industrialised countries at new high
U.N. says it’s time to adapt to warming
The U.N.’s blunt and alarming final report
Californians’ serious (and sunny) climate outlook
Coal addiction hinders climate cleanup
Energy policies – Nov 20
Castro: Oil costs and development
Southeast Asian leaders back nuclear energy
Nuclear revival in Europe likely
U.S. response – Nov 20
Rep. Bartlett: Why is oil/gas SO expensive?
U.S. Energy Secretary Bodman: not worried by OPEC dollar debate
Peak oil production and the implications to the state of Connecticut (report)
Science fiction, thrillers and fairy tales – Nov 19
Bruce Sterling post-peak short story
Brian Aldiss: Our science fiction fate
Rumpeltstiltskin updated
The Shell Game preview
WSJ front page: Oil officials see limit
A growing number of oil-industry chieftains are endorsing an idea long deemed fringe: The world is approaching a practical limit to the number of barrels of crude oil that can be pumped every day. (Excerpt and comments from Dave Cohen of ASPO-USA, Jeffrey Brown, Rep. Bartlett’s staff and Energy Bulletin)
Preparing transportation for oil depletion
Some 95% of motorized travel and freight movement by land, sea, and air is fuelled by oil products, accounting worldwide for consumption of some 60% of crude oil. …Our assessment of numerous alternatives to oil as a transport fuel concludes that, as oil depletion progresses, only electricity could reasonably power acceptable levels of land transportation.
