Geopolitics – Sept 28
Confronting the world’s new petro-powers
Russia may re-direct new gas supplies from US to Europe
Saudi Arabia begins looking east
Russia calls IAEA’s low-enriched uranium reserves plan “interesting but dangerous”
Fossil Fuels
Oil Industry – Sept 27
OPEC supply down in September
Oil man is awarded disputed Mexican election
Chavez drives a hard bargain, but Big Oil’s options are limited
ExxonMobil hits at ‘unfair’ attack by scientists
Hyundai wins billion dollar UAE facility contract
Gas is down – go back to sleep
We are used to gas prices going up and down in the short term, but in the last six weeks, we’ve seen a dip of fifty cents or more in the price of a gallon. We haven’t seen anything this precipitous in a long time and it has excited a lot of comment.
Biofuels – Sept 27
Jatropha fuelled car tours Indonesia
France prepares for post-oil fuels
Uganda to make fuel blending compulsory
Close the CAFE loophole
Get ready for oil supplies to dwindle, experts warn
Kjell Aleklett, a Swedish professor of physics, sees inescapable similarities between the steady depletion of the world’s most coveted energy source and the foraging habits of berry afficionados.
(First in an excellent series on energy by the Vancouver Sun.)
Shale and oil sands – Sept 26
Nuclear power required for oil sands production?
Aboriginal support of oil sands fracturing over water
Environmentalists want oil sands slowed
Chevron, Los Alamos to Study U.S. Oil Shale Deposits
Peak Oil – Sept 25
Energy Dept. concludes crude will peak
Recent hype can’t disprove peak oil
Oil peaks, valleys, plateaus and plains
Get ready for oil supplies to dwindle: experts
Put crudely, petrol panic runs out of puff
Kunstler on relocalization and peak oil
Energy policy – Sept 25
Nuclear power pushed for oil sands production
Collapse of oil prices makes gas restraint key to controlling CO2
Untransformed
(Bush and energy technology)
Hearings on Defense energy use
Environmentalists back Putin over Shell’s energy permit
Renewables – Sept 24
Silicon Valley explores solar technology
Philippines urged to use its abundant wind
Slow uptake of gasoline alternatives in US
Clinton debuts $1B renewable-energy fund
2006 a tipping point, says Flavin
Taking oil out of the equation
No matter how hard we try, we cannot prevail in the “war on terror” so long as we continue to ignore the oil dimensions of the conflict
Peak oil – Sept 22
Lundberg: End of the age of oil
Fortune: new oil discovery may be bad for us
Byron King: peak oil theory of value
Peak salt?
Interview about ASPO-USA conference
Conference Oct 25-27
Oil industry – Sept 22
High costs threaten oil sands projects
Oil companies split on demands by exporting countries
Hofmeister of Shell Oil podcast
Suits say US impeded audits for oil leases
Dems want hearings on Interior Dept “corruption”
Factors that pushed oil price up now push it down
How periodic are oil price fluctuations?
