Oil industry – Aug 30
BP: Big problems for oil giant
Forward-looking thoughts from Shell
China to invest $5-billion in Venezuelan oil
Fossil Fuels
Thoughts from Shell
Last week, Shell’s US President John Hofmeister came to Cleveland as part of a US tour to offer Shell’s perspectives on national energy security.
Australian TV covers peak oil: “Running on empty”
One of the most doomerish pieces about peak oil to run on mainstream television. Interviews with Andrew MacNamara (MP-Queensland) and environmentalist Jeremy Leggett, as well as two oilmen.
Video and transcript available.
Peak oil – Aug 29
Heinberg on the Oil Depletion Protocol
Kurt Vonnegut’s apocalypse
Oil-driven energy era coming to end?
Skrebowski: oil crisis by 2010
Saudi oilfield of the future – Khurais.
Hydrogen to the rescue? Questions about Iceland’s sustainability
Iceland plans to be the first country to implement a hydrogen economy, taking advantage of its vast electric resources. However, sustainability is still wanting in this tiny, isolated island nation, despite its massive advantages over most countries. It cannot, at this time, free itself from the world oil economy.
ASPO 5. Skrebowski tells us there’s 1,500 days until the Peak, & closing thoughts on ASPO 5
Skrebowski: “Decoding the figures in the new IEA report is akin to decoding the Da Vinci Code. In my work I am not a pessimist, and I observe what oil companies do, not what they say.”
ASPO 5. Jeremy Leggett Intertwines Peak Oil and Climate Change.
This talk will look at peak oil in the context of climate change, the conflagration of two huge problems, what we might think of as the Two Great Oversights of our times.
Peak oil and Bakhtiari’s 4 phases of transition
“The four Transition periods (T1, T2, T3, and T4) will roughly span the 2006-2020 era. …The major palpable difference between the four Ts is their respective gradient of oil output decline — very small for T1, perceptible for T2, remarkable in T3, and rather steep for T4. In fact, this gradation in decline is a genuine blessing for those having to cope and adapt.”
– Dr. A.M.S. Bakhtiari, Iranian oil expert
Simmons-Kunstler interview
A joint interview with Matt Simmons and Jim Kunstler, conducted just after they had met for the first time in November last year. Remarkably – even though both men came from vastly different backgrounds – they had basically reached the same conclusions regarding Peak Oil.
Oil and coal – Aug 25
– Shell president Hofmeister speaks live Aug 25 (podcast)
– Consultant: oil firms ‘hushing up’ crisis of corroding pipelines
– How “merchant coal” is changing the face of America
– European coal mining revival?
Peak oil – Aug 25
– Sydney newspaper profiles Heinberg
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Depletion estimates and the CGES
– DOE predicts gas shortages
(new Hirsch report)
– Peak pipelines
– Peak oil prophecies
Oil industry – Aug 24
– One crude dude: Chuck Hamel, oil industry whistleblower
– Shell Oil president advocates conservation
– BP revs up for carbon neutral motoring
– Russia overtakes Saudi Arabia as world’s leading oil producer – OPEC
