Energy producers – May 14
Political storm over Canadian energy security
Tories storm out of meeting on sharing energy with U.S
Iraqis resist U.S. pressure to enact oil law
Fossil Fuels
Saudi Aramco to Reduce Arab Light Oil Exports to Asia in June
Saudi Aramco, the world’s largest state oil company, will cut Arab Light crude oil exports to Asia for the first time in at least three months as part of an overall supply reduction to the region.
Oil producers – May 13
Billions in oil missing in Iraq :U.S. study
Prospects for an oil insurgency in the Angolan exclave
Q&A with Venezuela’s energy minister
IEA calls for OPEC to raise output
IEA: Iran gasoline rationing is a clever move
Peak oil and coal – May 13
Daily Mail: Oil-mageddon
Pickens: A future with less oil and more hard choices
Jerome a Paris:
China’s coal production to peak in a few years
Energy news portal – Global Oil Watch
Tar sands – May 11
85-year-old grandmother takes on Syncrude
The censored website
Choke point for oil sands may be water shortage
Web and media – May 11
“World Without Oil” – alternative reality game
Project Budburst: Springtime citizen science
Craigslist founder: People who run printing presses ‘screwed’
Videojug may just help save The world
Peak oil – May 11
‘Era of cheap energy is over,’ says Buckee
Rep. Bartlett commemorates Admiral Rickover’s 1957 speech on energy
DOE says computer tools to extract more oil
Peak oil – May 10
Oil minister: Saudis may not need to raise oil capacity after 2009
Nigeria escalation
Wildcats & tigers: China’s oil acquisition strategy
Peak Oil as a behavioral problem (scholarly publication)
Energy sources – May 10
Greenhouse crackdown scuppers Kipper gas field (Australia)
U.S.’s thirst for liquid natural gas growing
The cost Of coal on the environment
Iraq – land of opportunity and adventure?
Iraq will not contribute much new oil to the world’s supply for many years, or perhaps decades, to come — Iraq is a failed state… Geopolitical conflicts such as those in Iraq or Nigeria are one kind of aboveground risk threatening the future oil supply. Such factors, along with geologically determined production declines, conspire to accelerate the timing of peak oil.
Peak oil – May 9
Big Oil running out of oil
Review of Pfeiffer’s Eating Fossil Fuels
Gas gouging legislation – finding scapegoats
Maersk: oil production in North Sea at peak
ODAC News May 9 (JUST ADDED)
Coal’s future in doubt
A new study prepared for the European Commission Joint Research Centre reports: “the world could run out of economically recoverable (at current economic and operating conditions) reserves of coal much earlier than widely anticipated.”
