Kuwait oil reserves only half official estimate-PIW
OPEC producer Kuwait’s oil reserves are only half those officially stated, according to internal Kuwaiti records seen by industry newsletter Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (PIW).
Fossil Fuels
Iraqi oil production choked for years
…”One major challenge in maintaining, let alone increasing, oil production capacity was Iraq’s battle with water cut, especially in the south,” said the EIA report referring to the excess effluent water produced with each barrel of crude.
What they don’t want you to know about the coming oil crisis
Long (10,000 word) and frank article adapted from the book, “Half Gone: Oil, Gas, Hot Air and the Global Energy Crisis”. Makes the problem case well, views will differ on his optimistic take on potential of renewables.
Peak Oil – Jan 19
UK MEP demands EU statement on ‘peak oil’ /
Independent: bracing the world for the day when the oil runs out /
BBC on energy depletion, alternative fuels & food security /
Canada’s former Governor General on peak oil /
Kunstler’s backroad trip
Warming: it’s time to come clean
Support for a carbon tax and emmissions trading, from a surprising corner.
The Proposed Iranian Oil Bourse
The proposed Iranian Oil Bourse will accelerate the fall of the American Empire.
Peak oil – Jan 16
Petrotheism (animation) /
Peak oil summary for Australia /
Irish Times on unsustainable consumption /
Oil output will depend on investment, not reserves: CGES /
Dave Room (GPM) & Kirstin Miller (eco-cities) on KPFA /
Peak oil advocates shoot themselves in foot
Peak Oil – Jan 13
New strategy for peak oil blogging / Chevron: WillYouJoinUs Report / Over the Peak / Planning For the Peak / Norway Sees Dip in 2006 Oil Production /
Find a couple of spare planets or face global oil war / Professor warns about implications of Peak Oil
The Peak Oil Crisis: New Years 2006
It’s a good time to review — looking backwards at what we learned in 2005 and forward at what might be in store for 2006.
Alberta oil sands to star now we’re post-peak: CIBC World Markets
Alberta’s oil sands will become the most important source of new oil in the world by 2010 as conventional crude dries up, CIBC World Markets says in its latest monthly report.
ASPO Newsletter 61 (January 2006)
Latest ASPO Newsletter includes: The Scope for Renewable Energies under-stated
/ New Film on Peak Oil
/ The Fifth ASPO International Workshop on Oil Depletion
/ Country Re-Assessment – Indonesia
/ Correction to Item 640
/ Investment in Kuwait
/ Peak Oil in Washington
/ Running short of Gas.
/ The questionable contribution of enhanced recovery
/ 2005 Update of the Depletion Model
/ Peak Oil Debate
/ Peak Oil on BBC2’s Newsnight
Oil: A Bumpy Road Ahead
When I was born in 1945, none of the four small farms in my little Swedish
village used oil for anything. Ten years later, the oil age had arrived: we
had replaced coal with oil for heating, my father had bought a motorcycle,
and tractors were seen in the fields.
