Peak Oil – Aug 17
Life in a Post-Carbon World /
The more precious commodity in 2050: Water or oil? /
CorpWatch: Bye Bye Petroleum /
The Politics of Dancing (Peak Oil in music) /
Michael Ruppert in exile: A Permanent Goodbye to the United States
Fossil Fuels
Peak Oil – Aug 16
Making Santa Monica a sustainable city in the face of peak oil and global warming /
CERA study disputes peak-oil arguments /
The price of crude can only rise while supplies dwindle worldwide /
Oil, water, weather crises will hit cities /
Economist reports Saudi oil production can continue unabated
Col. Drake and the Age of Oil
What created the modern petroleum industry was a confluence of circumstances, and certainly of events. Col. Drake’s innovation in driving a hole into the earth was just one of many things along a long chain of events.
Chris Skrebowski on OPEC trends and CERA’s new report
POR caught up with Chris Skrebowski for a quick Q&A just as he was preparing to depart for the airport, bound for Australia. He had time to provide quick observations about OPEC’s production trends and CERA’s new report.
Opposition leader: free Finland of oil dependency
If the proposal is passed, Finland would follow in the footsteps of Sweden – the first country in the world to establish guidelines for replacing oil as a main energy source.
Oil industry – Aug 15
IEA leaves 06 world oil demand outlook unchanged at 84.8M B/D / The life of an oil reservoir / Oil’s dirty laundry (state oil companies) / BP nearly halving diameter of Prudhoe Bay pipeline? / Revised plan fails to lift clouds over Prudhoe Bay or BP
Peak oil – Aug 14
ASPO 5 – The two distinct paradigms within the peak oil movement /
Saudi oil production revisited /
Kuwait’s reserves queried again / Oil price spike to end, you can bet on it / Pipeline cowboys: rustling for oil
Senate Fiddles While America Sizzles
In the midst of the midsummer heat wave that scorched the eastern United States, the Senate voted 71-25 to allow oil and gas drilling in a section of the Gulf of Mexico now off-limits to such activity.
Peak oil – Aug 13
UK organisations that recognise peak oil / Designing the future (PO & systems engineering) / Ripe for revolution / The real price of oil / “400,000 barrels here, 400,000 barrels there. Pretty soon, you’re talking about a lot of oil.”
Peak oil – Aug 12
Perception management – CERA and IHS energy / Peak-oil theory warns tank’s almost empty (investing) / Scarcity, mother of invention / Scientific American: Energy’s future beyond carbon (special issue)
Climate response – Aug 11
Cities, States aren’t waiting for U.S. action on climate / Nature editorial: capturing carbon / Geosequestration in Australia
No more business as usual
There are few more qualified people in the world who can discuss Peak Oil than Ali Samsam Bakhtiari, retired “senior energy expert” of National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC. So when Bakhtiari talks, people ought to listen. He says: “We are entering an era in which we know nothing much, where we have a brand-new set of rules.”
