Already Past the Peak?
Jeff Rubin, chief economist at CIBC World Markets, the bank’s wholesale banking arm says that conventional oil production around the world apparently peaked in 2004.
Fossil Fuels
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.
Peak Oil – Jan 9
Oil Crash: A New 90 minute documentary on the planet’s dwindling oil resources /
[Barrons] Twilight in the Desert: an interview on peak oil with Matthew Simmons /
Energy, the Big Story of 2005 /
“Urgent Oil Apocalypse Brief” /
Predicting US Production with Gaussians /
There Has To Be A Crisis /
Going Local conference
Peak Oil – Jan 6
The Peak Oil Crisis: New Years 2006
/ Robert Hirsch on peak oil mitigation
/ Hirsch Tells It Like It Is
/ Leaders ignore oil depletion
/ Oil Analysts, Wrong Since 2001, End Forecasts of Price Drop
/ Ken Deffeyes: Thanksgiving day speech
/ Simmons: $250 oil?
/ Abiotic vs. Peak Oil debate is on
10 Books on Solutions for Energy Descent You Must Read in 2006
If I might be so presumptous as to suggest a few things you might like to read in the New Year…. here are 10 books I am really enjoying that you might find useful if you are interested in designing solutions for energy descent.
Kunstler: Predictions for 2006
A little background briefing on where we are at — to use some of the bad grammar now normative in American life — before I make predictions (i.e. guesses) about the year ahead.
Russian gas cuts – why there is no need to worry
As expected, following its threats in recent weeks (made in order to get an increase in the price Ukraine “pays” for its gas) Russia has somewhat reduced its deliveries of gas to Ukraine, and as expected, Ukraine has retaliated by reducing transit gas to the West. But there is nothing to worry about.
Ukraine vs Russia: Tales of pipelines and dependence
Maps and background on the Russian-Ukrainian gas spat
Why We Should Pray that the Peak Be Soon
Peak oil is a term for the point in time when world oil production will stop increasing and begin to decline. New reports are coming in from many quarters telling us that this moment is arriving much sooner than expected. The news is alarming; but if it is true, we should be thankful.
3000 billion tons of coal off Norway’s coastline
This summer, students from Norwegian University of Science and Technology analyzed data from 600 wells drilled on the Norwegian Shelf of the North Sea. They calculated that there are 3000 billion tons of coal off the Norwegian coast.
Safety fears for fleet of new LNG tankers after leaks are found
A fleet of new ships built for BG and other companies to meet Britain’s growing energy needs by bringing in liquefied natural gas (LNG) from abroad has been hit by leaks and safety scares.
