Geopolitics – Nov 4
The perils of petrocracy
Iran shuns greenback deals
William Clark updates Petrodollar Warfare (video)
Venezuela won’t seek partners for former Exxon, Conoco fields
Fossil Fuels
Big melt meets big empty: Rethinking the implications of climate change and peak oil
The central question facing us is not whether the world will move away from fossil fuels, but how. The primary dispute will be between those who look for short-term solutions to energy supply shocks … and policy advocates with a long-range plan for dealing effectively and peacefully with climate change, adaptation to scarcity, and global inequity.
DOE publishes poster: “Peak Oil – the Turning Point”
The United States Department of Energy (DOE) recently made available on its website a large poster explaining peak oil. Most of the text is reproduced here.
Climate – Nov 3
Nordic nations sound alarm over melting Arctic
Australian researchers report on health effects of climate change
Tar sands growth makes meeting Kyoto targets less likely
Oil industry – Nov 3
Gov’t cannot halt oil incentives, judge rules
A break in Texas’s oil decline
Exxon’s crude nightmare
Is drilling method making people ill?
Oil prices – Nov 3
Citing oil prices, Asia starts reducing fuel subsidies
IEA’s Birol sees hazard in costly oil
Oil prices spur homes to mull gas switch
NATO and energy security
Concerns about energy security have made their way to the agenda of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). But to ensure energy security we are now risking global security.
Peak oil – Nov 2
Total chief warns on oil output
Houston’s Mad Max moment (ASPO-USA conference)
Originator of eco-footprint concept says politicians blinkered on peak oil
Conn. legislature begins planning for PO
We’ll never see 100mbd
ODAC News
Total boss on why oil production will never top 100 mb/d
Christophe de Margerie has a reputation for forthright views and blunt speaking, but this week the chief executive of Total excelled himself by dismissing the IEA’s oil production forecasts as unrealistic, while coining an aphorism worthy of Donald Rumsfeld.
The perfect storm
The former head of Saudi Arabian exploration & production, Sadad Al-Husseini, has told the world that he now believes that the current level of world oil production will likely never be exceeded.
IEA reviews reliance on USGS resource estimates
The chief economist of the International Energy Association (IEA), Fatih Birol, has told lastoilshock.com that the agency will review its use of resource estimates from the United States Geological Survey, in a move that seems certain to prompt a major downward revision of its long term oil production forecast.
Peak oil – Oct 31
IEA’s Birol says oil prices will stay ‘very high,’ threatening global growth
Homer-Dixon on peak oil
London oil & money conference
Peak oil: More than cars
Bart Anderson of EB on the Reality Report
TOD:Canada new round-up
