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)
Fossil Fuels
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
The peak oil crisis: The summer ahead
From unusually low gasoline stocks in the spring to frenzied Chinese economic growth later in the year — all seem destined to play a role in how much money you will be leaving at your favorite gas pump later this year.
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.”
Oil producers – May 8
The struggle over Iraqi oil
Chavez-style oil nationalism is endangering world economic growth
The (not so) eagerly modern Saudi
Peak oil – May 8
Investigative journalist reports PO by 2020
Bush may have answers to peak oil
Peak oil in Turkey
User’s guide to T. Boone Pickens
Peak Oil Review — May 7
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective.
ODAC News – May 7
Excerpts and comments.
Oil producers – May 6
Kuwait oil reserves secret for national security
Have the Kurds abandoned hope of a stable Iraq?
How much Iraqi crude is being stolen?
The other oil-rich gulf
Gas and oil – May 6
Is U.S. natural gas headed toward excess supply?
Where gasoline is cheap
Interview with Lisa Margonelli, author of Oil On the Brain
