Peak oil – July 15
Peak oil passnotes: where Is the recession? /
Using community radio to communicate peak oil (N. Calif.) / Potential impact of Cantarell’s decline on Mexico’s oil production
Fossil Fuels
Other energy – July 15
British Petroleum’s “Statistical Review of World Energy 2006” / ODAC comments on BP’s Review / CNN special: fueling America /
Deep ocean energy resources – a critical analysis / Saudi Arabia tests potential for unlocking heavy-oil reserves / Interview with Jeff Goodell, author of “Big Coal”
Targeting coal: protest mounts
Anyone concerned about the burning of fossil fuels and resultant climate change is scared beyond words because of the prospect of coal usage growing or continuing. (Also: a discussion of Earth First! and its anti-coal protests.)
Study cites plan to end U.S. oil imports
Sympathetic coverage of a plan by Roger Bezdek, coauthor of “The Hirsch Report.” The four-part plan suggests: coal-to-liquid (Fischer-Tropsch process), pumping CO2 into old oil fields, biomass as a feedstock for synthetic fuel, and oil shale.
Pentagon and Peak Oil: A Military Literature Review
Until the recent oil price hikes and world wide discussions on the future of oil, Peak Oil was nearly absent in military publications. Now, things have changed. This article attempts to provide a US military literature review on Peak Oil and related issues.
Daniel Yergin Day, July 13, 2006
The front-month futures contract climbed past $76 a barrel Thursday for the first time ever on the New York Mercantile Exchange, with August crude touching $76.30 and last trading at $76.21, up $1.26.
Clinton: not briefed on peak oil
“To the best of my knowledge I never had a security briefing which said what some of these very serious but conservative petroleum geologists say, which is that they think that either now or before the decade is out that we’ll reach peak oil production globally … This needs much more serious debate. It’s almost not discussed at all in the mainstream media.” [Clinton also comments on climate change and how to present the issues.]
Russian energy politics – July 12
More Conflict than Camaraderie Between Moscow and Washington /
U.S. Seeks Ways to Route Natural Gas Around Russia /
The New American Cold War /
Guide to Russia’s key energy clients /
Russian oil exchange hold-ups /
Boeing brains show Russia’s way into WTO /
Oil boom: Russian suicide rate falling
Coal – July 12
Coal gasification /
Why coal-rich US is seeing record imports /
UK Energy Trends, Coal /
Shell in Chinese liquefied coal deal
Peak Oil – July 11
Real Oil Crisis (online video) /
Bakhtiari: oil industry hits peak production /
‘Mission Accomplished’ – High oil prices are here to stay /
Trouble South of the border: Mexico’s oil production /
Opec: ‘We do not subscribe to the peak-oil theory’
The Twang Factor
Here at high noon of 2006, I’ll stand pat with what I have said more than once: we have already entered the zone of The Long Emergency.
Oil sands – July 10
The Canadian oil sands will not save us / Interview with EnCana spokesman Protti / Some oilsands projects could end up shelved – rising costs / Cost of Athabasca could hit $20-billion /
Oilsands: Alberta’s gravy train – ‘single largest hydrocarbon deposit on the Earth’ / Canada’s oilsands rush hits the buffers
