Peak Oil Review – October 15th, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– New Record Prices
– The International Energy Agency’s Monthly Report
– Canadian Natural Gas
– Energy Briefs
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil – Oct 15
Peak minerals
New presentations by Matt Simmons
Heinberg: Upside to rising price of the black stuff
New doomer cult classic What a Way to Go
Peak oil and global warming: most serious threats to Progressive ideals
Will ‘ASPO Effect’ send oil prices higher?
Energy and environment round-up
ODAC News
Energy industry – Oct 15
Why does Colorado subsidize the world’s most profitable industry?
Casualty of high oil prices: oil firms
Former Shell executive accuses oil firms of ‘hypocrisy’ over human rights
Trillions needed to meet global oil and gas demand
Energy policy – Oct 15
Fill ‘er up- but with what? (review of Zoom)
Jamais Cascio: Solving the climate crisis
Black to the future: cheap, plentiful and planet-friendly coal
Geopolitics – Oct 15
Energy crunch threatens South American nations
Aussie coal to fuel Vietnam expansion
Angola:
Amid an oil boom, poverty persists
One decade into a new era
the rise in oil prices over the last ten years reflects a third era in the petroleum industry’s 160-year history.
$100 oil by 2008? Maybe not
The price of oil may well rise in the next three years and it might even reach the $100 per barrel for a brief period. But this will most likely be caused by strong global demand or an unexpected geo-political crisis in the Middle East rather than by a decline in exports under the circumstances that Jeff Rubin has described.
Peak moment for peak oil in Queensland
The just-released report marks the Queensland Government as the first state/provincial government in the world to recognise that peak oil is real and decide to do something about it.
Russian Oil – a Depletion Rate Model estimate of the future Russian oil production and export
The fall of the Soviet Union in 1991 caused the Russian oil production to drop by 50%. The production is currently growing again – but how will it develop in the future? (Diploma thesis written under the supervision of Professor Kjell Aleklett and Dr Colin Campbell of ASPO.)
U.S. military – Oct 13
Pentagon backs plan to beam solar power from space
Hydrogen uses in the military
Air Force reducing energy impact
Peak oil – Oct 12
The shape of oil to come
Strong correlation between crude prices and those of commodities- especially ferilisers
From whale oil and beyond
Lloyd’s List reviews PO film
Heinberg in New Zealand
Peak Oil Passnotes: $100 Oil?
Houston PO conference one week away
Energy industries – Oct 12
Energy industry ‘in a limbo phase’
Vietnam’s coal-fueled boom
Oil sands as a saviour? Check the numbers
New book bashes the oilsands
