Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
‘Oil production has peaked’ according to al-Huseini (former head of exploration and production at Saudi Aramco)
China to reach peak oil production as early as 2015 says leading scholar in Beijing
“Requiem for Fossil Fuels” performed in NYC
Kunstler: Assumptions
Downloadable peak oil presentation
Kenneth Deffeyes on feedback loops
ODAC news
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Tanker Trackers
– Alberta
– The Energy Watch Group
– Energy Briefs
There is a huge discrepancy between the National Petroleum Council’s (NPC) projection for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), and the history of actual EOR results. Where does EOR succeed and where does it not?
High oil prices hit Chinese petrol stations
Oil price ‘grounds’ N Korea air fleet
Airlines struggle to keep pace with soaring fuel costs
Zimbabwe faces energy crisis
Ill-conceived energy strategies for developing countries
Opec to study basket of currencies for oil pricing
Why Kuwait wants to shift to heavy oil
Gulf countries eye alternative energy
China’s role in the oil price rise
Russia turning Big Oil into employees
China coal boom attracts US investors, business
Arctic oil, gas offer challenge, potential
Endgame for Iraqi oil?
How secure are Middle East oil supplies?
Stan Goff’s Energy War now online
Re-visiting “Petrodollar Warfare”
Strike on Iran would roil oil markets
Iran – tension and pressure up again
Oil rises to record over $92 after U.S. says Iran backs terror
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Brave B.C. talks true carbon tax
Second inconvenient truth: greenhouse gases must be taxed
Alberta royalty grab stuns oil industry
Is Alberta out of step with the world? (no)
Rabaska: une étude démolit l’argument écologique (problems of energy substitution in a free market)
Can it really be true that the Canadian petroleum industry is almost in crisis with oil at $90 per barrel? Americans in particular should understand the critical economic issues now facing Canada’s petroleum industry.
Texas senator protects oil company tax breaks by blocking House-Senate energy conference
Saudi Arabia holds key to oil and dollar link
Pace of coal-power boom slackens
Getting more power out of using less
Why Illinois should host DOE’s FutureGen project
This past May, in an unheralded and almost unnoticed move, the Energy Department signaled a fundamental, near epochal shift in US and indeed world history: we are nearing the end of the Petroleum Age and have entered the Age of Insufficiency.
