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
Fossil Fuels
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.
Response to WSJ article on peak oil
The oil production forecasts that have been truly erroneous are not those of peak oil researchers, but those of the EIA, the IEA and CERA. These estimates are consistently biased high. One wonders whether the forecasts of these organizations are based primarily on forecasts of future demand, together with a large measure of wishful thinking.
Peak oil – Nov 18
Who’s talking about peak oil (quotes)
How should I prepare for life without oil?
Simmons and others in the media
OPEC onstage – Nov 18
Oil price could hit $150 a barrel
Bush to veto anti-OPEC legislation
Oil leaders’ private debate televised by mistake
Chavez blasts U.S. at OPEC summit
Saudi, Venezuela leaders differ on politicizing OPEC
Can Saudi square the oil circle?
Peak fun (and the inevitable hangover)
When you are at the peak of the biggest party ever thrown in history, the fossil-fuel party, who worries about the hangover?
Energy industries – Nov 17
Quest for dialogue drove Shell Oil tour
Oil sands forecast cut as costs increase 50%
Coal demand expected to rise through 2030
Oil producers – Nov 17
Riyadh is boom town as Saudis enjoy oil bonanza
Black gold finances the dreams for Abu Dhabi
How would you manage Saudi’s reserves?
Big day looms for Venezuela: oil socialism
Qatar: dollar slide erodes purchasing power
Geopolitical price meters
More than that of any other commodity, the price of oil is influenced by political and economic geography – complex events better known as geopolitics.
Media’s advice for increasing global oil production
Flat global liquid hydrocarbons production and the concept of depletion appear to be taboo subjects for the U.S. media.
Who has the oil?
The size of each country on this map reflects the relative size of its oil reserves.
