Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
In their recent 400+ page report, the National Petroleum Council (NPC) projects that enhanced oil recovery (EOR) will contribute an enormous increment of total global supply of petroleum liquids. By any reasonable analysis, NPC’s projection of EOR production rates is unachievable.
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The Falling Dollar
– Venezuela
– Energy Briefs
Economic impact of peak oil
Kunstler: Two clues for the clueless
How economy could survive oil at $100/barrel
Costly fuel is never far from a match (price rises = turmoil)
ASPO’S Steve Andrews: online PO lecture Tuesday
Buckee of Talisman “believes in peak oil theory”
College sophomore discovers peak oil
PO 10-20 years away, claims WEC
ODAC News
Private industry conference finds much less oil
The end of Las Vegas: why alternative energy sources won’t save us
Kunstler:
America’s new religion
Inspector finds broad failures in Interior Department’s oil program
Canada’s oil nationalism
Mountain-top removal coal mining
To Grandmother’s house we go: peak oil is here
ASPO 6: Ireland’s Eamon Ryan
Shell Oil’s Hofmeister dismisses peak oil
ODAC News
Burma protesters defy crackdown
Economic factors behind the Myanmar protests
Myanmar’s painful oil and gas price rise
Q&A: Life in Burma
Report on the ASPO 06 Conference in Cork, Ireland. Speakers at the September conference indicate that we may have reached the psychological tipping point – when Peak Oil enters the general consciousness.
Beneath booming cities, China’s future is drying up
China’s crude oil imports climb 18.7% in August on year
Bund blackout sends powerful signal: save energy or face blackout
China warns of catastrophe from Three Gorges dam
Background on ASPO-USA and its conference in October.
A range of speakers stated that current trends in bringing new projects onstream indicate that global oil production would peak on or before 2012, a forecast that coincides with the latest announcement from International Energy Agency.
Ray Leonard (Kuwait Energy) at ASPO 6
“We Are All Peakists Now”
The ASPO Conference – a comment
