Peak Oil Review – September 17th, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Recession
– Mexico
– In the Congress
– Energy Briefs
Fossil Fuels
Peak oil – Sept 17
Interview at ASPO with James Schlesinger: “We are all peakists now”
An unlikely Paul Revere (Lee Raymond of Exxon)
Feb. Hirsch report on recent PO forecasts
Peak energy discussion panel
Peak oil on Hong Kong radio
Stanford prof:
The truth about reservoirs, drilling and cheap oil
Tar sands, oil shale – Sept 17
Experts debate oil shale’s future
Water for oil shale could complicate things
How Canada went from 21st to 2nd in world’s oil reserves
Tar sands: the oil junkie’s last fix
Alberta: The Saudi-Arabia of the North?
“The 11th Hour” and Generation Z
Leonardo DiCaprio’s documentary The 11th Hour is a valuable film and everyone who can get to a theater should go and see it. A more personal treatment of the same ground can be found in What a Way to Go: Life at the End of Empire.
Geopolitics – Sept 17
Petroleos de Venezuela to convert accounts away from dollars
Greenspan clarifies Iraq war, oil link
Iraq oil reality vs the NY Times
Wesley Clark: The next war
Shortfalls in Russian oil deliveries to Germany
Engdahl and peak oil
Author and economist F. William Engdahl has just made a surprising turnabout on peak oil. He now supports the idea of the abiotic origin of petroleum. (Excerpts from interviews and past articles.)
Coal – Sept 16
China’s coal prices may increase on environmental, safety costs
Rep. Bartlett questions Coal-to-Liquid at hearing
Flash: New technology for carbon sequestration discovered!
King Coal resumes its crown
King coal constrained
Peak oil – Sept 16
Former Shell chairman: Oil industry ‘sleepwalking into crisis’
Interview with Lord Oxburgh (full version)
Malthus and Mein Kampf come to Cork
ASPO’s Stuart McCarthy on peak oil hitting the Australian mainstream
United States – Sept 15
Greenspan claims Iraq war was really for oil
U.S. court backs states’ measures to cut emissions
Hopes dim for measures to conserve energy
Energy independence is a myth
Bartlett: We need political pioneers, not the glacier flag-planting types
Iraq and oil – Sept 14
NY Times: Compromise on oil law in Iraq seems to be collapsing
Naomi Klein: Why failure is the new face of success
Michael Klare on the internal war for control of Iraq’s oil
Iraq: New U.S. Base – Wasit
The peak oil crisis: A meeting to remember
On Tuesday, Oil Ministers from the OPEC countries gathered in Vienna to decide on production levels. It turned out one of the more remarkable meetings that OPEC has held in recent years.
OPEC and $80 oil
Chris Skrebowski on record high oil price
Oil closes above $80 a barrel for first time
Traders doubt OPEC’s ability to boost output
Bodman: $80/barrel prices are `troublesome’
Forget about fundamentals, this is the oil market after all
Shell CEO: “psychology” behind high oil prices
OPEC realignment reflects oil supply reality
OPEC says $80 oil won’t last due to `fundamentals’
Oil: A slippery (upward) slope
