Fossil Fuels

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.

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.

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

At a Peak Oil workshop held October 26 at the China University of Petroleum Beijing (CUPB), it was unanimously agreed that ASPO-China should be formed and that Peak Oil research and modeling is essential to China.

The world’s proved reserves have been have been falsely puffed up by the inclusion of 300 billion barrels of speculative resources, according to the former head of exploration and production at Saudi Aramco, and this explains the industry’s inability to raise output despite soaring prices.

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Interview with Shell UK chairman
Liberal bloggers puzzle over peak oil

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Please don’t blame us for $93 oil: OPEC

Daniel Yergin: Oil prices becoming decoupled