ASPO September Newsletter
The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas’s September newsletter is essential reading.
Fossil Fuels
Options exhausted, oil firms turn to tar
North America’s crude oil resources have been so thoroughly explored and developed that experts believe that there is hardly any left to find, except perhaps in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
Putin And The Geopolitics Of Oil
The geopolitics of oil today suggest a backdrop looking less like a benign, happily globalised “one world economy” dominated by America Inc and its assorted “branch plants”, and more a massive, overextended military power fighting a dangerous, and ultimately losing, battle against an angry, resistant globe, of which Russia is but one more growing manifestation.
Truth and Lies about 9/11
Michael Ruppert, publisher of From The Wilderness addressed the prestigious Commonwealth Club of California about peak oil and it’s relationship to the events of 9/11.
IFP develops three oil price scenarios for 2004-05
aced with lofty world crude oil prices, reflecting a perception of tight fundamentals and threats to supplies, Paris-based Institut Français du Pétrole recently examined how the situation might evolve over the next 18 months.
Simon Upton forecasts end of industrial era.
The former New Zealand minister for the environment and now chairman of the OECD roundtable for sustainable development wrote in 1997 of his knowledge of the impending global oil peak, but did he really understand the implications of what he was saying?
Mexican Oil Claims Doubted
Officials at Mexico’s state-owned oil monopoly said Monday that the company has detected massive new oil deposits in the Gulf of Mexico that could potentially double the country’s reserves, but industry analysts cautioned that the company’s findings are still unproven.
Dr. Albert Bartlett: arithmetic, population and energy
The retired Professor of Physics from the University of Colorado in Boulder examines the arithmetic of steady growth, continued over modest periods of time, in a finite environment. These concepts are applied to populations and to fossil fuels such as petroleum and coal.
Japan: Energy efficiency gains can’t prevent oil risks
Although soaring crude oil prices have cast a shadow over the world economy, many business leaders in Japan remain surprisingly optimistic. Is such optimism really justified?
Oil price double-edged sword for Africa
Nowhere is the dichotomy more apparent than in Nigeria, which has enjoyed a $2.5 billion boost in profits from crude but is likely to pour the bulk of it into its imports of refined oil.
Mexico’s Pemex reports huge new oil finds
Mexico’s Pemex has detected vast new oil deposits in the Gulf of Mexico that could double the country’s total reserves and boost its oil output to rival Saudi Arabia’s, the state oil monopoly said on Monday.
Can We Live Without Oil?
The fall 2004 issue of YES! magazine is devoted to Peak Oil. About a dozen articles are available online. Subjects include biodiesel, hydrogen, transportation and conservation. Authors include Hunter Lovins, James Lovelock and David Orr.
