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
Fossil Fuels
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
Energy impacts – Oct 31
Emirates get a whiff of a Western bugbear – energy shortage
UK: fear of electricity/NG crisis this winter
Azerbaijan’s pessimistic growth forecast
Geopolitical – Oct 31
Venezuela’s gas prices remain low, but political costs may be rising
Why did we invade Iraq anyway?
Iraq’s oil: the plot thickens
Energy industries – Oct 31
College graduates heading to careers in … the coal mines
Coal leaving a trail of environmental devastation
Oil shale may finally have its moment
Oil prices – Oct 31
Oil jumps $4 on Fed, supplies (now over $94)
The new math of oil
OPEC says pumping more won’t bring oil price down
Get used to $100 oil, OPEC warns
Higher oil prices blamed on peaking production
A Voice of America correspondent went to the ASPO-USA peak oil conference in Houston recently and filed this report. (text and video)
After the peak?
The world has never been to peak oil before and there are so many factors that will affect a world in oil depletion, it is difficult, or better yet nigh impossible, to paint a picture of what life will be like 10 or 20 years from now.
