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Long-time GNN contributor Adam Porter is the oil and economics correspondent for Al Jazeera’s English language web site. Recently, he talked with GNN editor Anthony Lappé about the phenomenon known as “peak oil”
Some researchers who have studied oil supplies believe that the peak in world production is decades, not years, in the future. (An article fairly dismissive of oil peak worries emphasising the dubious official studies…)
The oil tanker Tropical Brilliance owned by the Russian partly state-owned Sovcomflot company and sailing under a Liberian flag has caused a traffic jam at the Suez Canal, after experiencing steering gear failure and grounding itself across the canal.
US oil output has fallen to its lowest monthly level in more than 50 years in the wake of Hurricane Ivan.
Rising global temperatures will melt areas of the Arctic this century, making them more accessible for oil and natural gas drilling, a report prepared by the United States and seven other nations said on Monday.
WORLD oil production is likely to peak in the next decade, much earlier than many international forecasts, a senior BP executive has told The Business.
As China’s economy expands, so does its thirst for oil, gas, coal, and electricity. Today, China accounts for 12.1% of the world’s energy consumption.
China’s crude oil output will peak at 200 million tonnes annually in a decade, but even that will be far from enough to cover the country’s voracious energy needs, state media said.
Saudi Arabia and Russia will jointly sponsor an international energy forum in February next year to map out an effective strategy for regulating the oil market and strengthening security measures at oil installations and during transportation as part of a comprehensive energy security program.
The Wall Street Journal recently published a major piece on peak oil and in the past year Campbell has spoken before a joint committee meeting of the British House of Commons, addressed a group of J P Morgan Chase & Co investors and been visited by officials from Swedish auto manufacturer Volvo.
Some selected recent stories relating to Iran.
