Oil Industry – Sept 15
Secret to cheap petrol is coal
BP was warned over North Slope intimidation
Oil supplies ‘could last 140 years’
Canadian crude oil production drops
US DOE trumpets CO2 injection
Fossil Fuels
Politics and Economics – Sept 15
IMF: risk of global crash is increasing
Java-Bali electricity supply reduced
America’s unreal estate problem
Ford offers early retirement to US workforce
Gulf oil find won’t alter prices now
Climate Policy – Sept 15
Buildings as clean energy producers
Global carbon neutral calculation
Geosequestration to boost oil recovery
An Inconvenient Truth About Climate Change
White House might unveil GW policy
Peak Oil – Sep 14
Financial columnist Scott Burns on peak oil
Geophysicist Klaus Lackner on Fueling the Future
Roscoe Bartlett interview
A simpler way to calculate global oil reserves?
Some insiders reject ‘peak-oil theory’
Oil supply conjecture grips industry
Prominent CERA official – “Peak Oil theory is garbage”
Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) completely discounts the considered opinions of dozens of sober individuals and firms looking into the peak oil issue. Who are these concerned individuals and firms? Steve Andrews lists many of the most prominent.
Peak Oil – Sept 12
ASPO Newsletter #69
Jack 2 will be a long time coming
ExxonMobil exec claims Peak oil theories wrong
Predicting the peak
Stormy world of energy has a clear forecaster
Chevron conquers the rock
Jack #2 demonstrates a key element of the Peak Oil thesis. That is, that the “easy” oil is gone… The oil that mankind will lift from the earth in the future, on the far side of Peak Oil, will be in faraway places, in harsh climates, under excruciatingly difficult conditions, deep down, heavy, sour, and overall expensive.
Geopolitics – Sept 11
US and UK mercenaries in covert operations in Somalia
‘Resource nationalism’ is squeezing oil users
Gas Pressure destabilising Yushchenko
Japan nervous over Russia’s Sakhalin lawsuit
Oil and gas – Sept 10
Gulf oil find won’t alter prices now
Total chief says world will find oil target tough
Shell: cost, lack of gas are slowing Saudi plans
Oil projects idle as supply of gear, staff runs dry
Tribune reporter set free
Tribune correspondent Paul Salopek was set free Saturday by Sudanese authorities who had charged him with espionage, ending more than a month in custody and starting him on a journey home to the United States.
(EB: Salopek is the author of the recent blockbuster report on oil in the Chicago Tribune: A tank of gas, a world of trouble)
Peak oil – Sept 9
(Updated)
Rift widens between producers, consumers
Armageddon on the couch – PeakOilBlues
Australians guzzle oil while supplies dwindle
Byron King on the Gulf of Mexico discovery
Oil supply and demand recent trends
Cornucopians – a guide for the perplexed
Peak oil and the Gulf oil discovery
Peak oil theorists don’t know Jack
Extra! Oil discovery saves civilization!
Oil find brings gloom to ‘peak oil’ pranksters
Plenty of oil – just drill deeper
Discovery paves way to an oil peak
Byron King cheers Gulf oil discovery, but says ‘no impact whatsoever’ on peak oil
