Oil-producing countries – Apr 12
Doha: talking about an OPEC for gas
Russia’s oil and gas reserves shrinking
Chavez guarantees Latin American energy supply for 100 years
Chávez plays the oil card
Fossil Fuels
Decline Rates and Non-OPEC Supply
Every year, baseball starts up in the Spring and there are rosy forecasts for supply growth in the non-OPEC oil supply. 2007 is no exception. Wood Mackenzie’s Non-OPEC Increases to Continue in 2007 announces the good news.
Peak Oil – Apr 11
Kunstler – Spring Break
Now You See It… Now You Don’t
Radio Free America this weekend
ASPO-USA’s “Peak Oil Review” now posted online
George Monbiot on Peak Oil and Transition Towns
“Over the past two or three years or so, I’ve become pretty sure that peak oil isn’t as imminent as I first thought. There are a couple of reasons for this.”
Oil Industry – Apr 11
What Iraq’s new oil law says about the invasion?
Getting tough with the petro-elites
Disposable Workers of the Oil and Gas Fields
Canada’s oil services struggle
A peak by any other name is still a peak
The debate over the exact timing of peak oil really comes down to this: How much running room do we have before we go off a cliff?
U.S. energy policy – Apr 9
Pelosi, Clinton, Obama favor nuclear plants
Forces dig in for California LNG battle
Conservatives warm to climate: nuclear, dams, thinning forests
Peak oil – Apr 8
Simmons interview on the GAO report
Gas crunch likely as Mideast races to meet local needs
Life after oil – A children’s book review
Oil producers – Apr 5
“Untapped: The Scramble for Africa’s Oil”
Mexico tries to save a big, fading oil field
Indonesia’s oil output below target
Vietnam’s crude oil export down in Q1
Peak coal by 2025 say researchers
“Global coal reserve data are of poor quality, but seem to be biased towards the high side. Production profile projections suggest the global peak of coal production to occur around 2025 at 30 percent above current production in the best case. There should be a wide discussion on this subject leading to better data in order to provide a reliable and transparent basis for long term decisions regarding the future structure of our energy system.” (Excerpts)
Peak oil – Apr 5
Hirsch responds to Swedish PhD thesis on PO
Pickens on peak oil
When the oil runs out … in Sacramento
Cato Institute: Energy alarmism
Anarkismo: Politics & reality of the PO scare
Peak oil – Apr 4
Peak oil at conference of American Assn of Petroleum Geologists
Heinberg interviewed on Iran and on peak coal
ASPO-USA site to be reinvigorated
