Energy industry – Oct 5
Rising costs, shortages curb rush to cash in on oil boom
Engineer shortage hampers oil, gas production
Big Oil not kidding about pulling out of Alberta
Doomsday: Alberta stands accused
Fossil Fuels
United States – Oct 5
Forget your silver bullet (unconventional fuels)
Lawmakers to Pentagon: Plan for climate change
Big Coal tries to recruit military to kindle a market
Air Force pursuing CTL fuel plant
The peak oil crisis: On contemplating $100 oil
The Wall Street Journal’s bold conclusion that we can handle $100 “quite well” may be perfectly true, until you ask “then what?” and the only possible answer is higher and higher prices.
Limits to growth and the Hedberg conference
The Hedberg meeting brought together the world’s experts on the future oil supply. Unfortunately, no one from the peak oil research community was invited to attend. Representatives of government organizations, the world’s oil companies, consultancies and independent geologists shared their proprietary data to assess what our oil future is, and thereby examine the peak oil question. …The good news about the Hedberg conference results is the recognition of limits to growth in future oil production, a recognition that is absent in EIA forecasts.
Peak oil – Oct 3
David Strahan: Oil execs warming to peak oil
Oil crunch: the other monster under our bed
Randy Udall stepping down as CORE director
Peak oil 2005? 2007? 2010? 2012? Who the heck cares?
Film reviews:
Crude awakening
ODAC news
Burma – Oct 3
Burma: It’s the oil and gas, stupid
Amy Goodman: Chevron’s pipeline is the Burmese regime’s lifeline
The hardship that sparked Burma’s unrest
Costly fuel is never far from a match
Oil versus monks
Global hypocrisy on Burma
United States – Oct 3
Change in oil dollar denomination unlikely – oil companies
Air Force energy initiatives focus on fuel
DOW chairman: Strength needs energy
3-vol report on strategic unconventional fuels
Whatever happened to sharing the pie of prosperity?
Impact of population-wide weight loss observed
Cardiovascular disease and diabetes mortality reductions found after population-wide weight loss during 1989-2000 Cuban economic crisis. [Since Cuba is an example of what peak oil might look like, this study provides hints at the effects of peak oil on public health.]
Oil on the slide
We have had plenty of warnings about the consequences of an early peak in global oil production, but no one in Westminster seems to be listening.
Russia – Oct 2
Russia’s geology in dire straits
Begins to feel the heat on inefficiency
To raise oil exports by 50,000 bpd in Q4
Forging energy dialog with China
Says it will invest more oil wealth in its economy
Energy industry – Oct 2
Recasting Big Oil’s battered image
Tough new rule may stop wells flaring in BC
Review: Stupid to the Last Drop (Alberta tar sands)
Export Land Model (ELM) goes mainstream
For years, Jeffrey J. Brown has been arguing that oil-exporting countries will be consuming more oil, leaving less oil to export. Now a mainstream economist has picked up the idea:
Jeff Rubin and the Export Land Model
Declining net oil exports- temporary decline or long term trend?
America’s top oil suppliers tightening taps on exports
OPEC’s growing call on itself
