Oil Could Help Japan Resolve Territorial Fight With Russia
A development of oil and gas reserves could break a geopolitical logjam between Russia and Japan that has endured since World War II.
Fossil Fuels
Oil worries lubricate South China Sea pact
Soaring oil prices have raised the stakes in China’s game of brinkmanship over the hotly disputed Spratly Islands, with the Philippines this week becoming the first rival claimant to break ranks.
Everything you need to know in 5 Minutes
All you need to know about Peak Oil in 5 Minutes. Delightful cartoon presentation in four parts.
Indonesia short on LNG commitments
Indonesia said it may need to buy 54 spot cargoes of LNG between 2005-2007 to meet its overseas sales commitments. Indonesia is the world’s top exporter of LNG, but has been struggling to meet its contractual commitments for the super-cooled, compressed gas as output has declined and supplies have been diverted to the domestic market, mainly to fertiliser plants.
New Book: Crossing the Rubicon: The Decline of the American Empire at the End of the Age of Oil
This is a detective story that gets to the innermost core of the 9/11 attacks. It places 9/11 at the center of a desperate new America, created by specific, named individuals in preparation for Peak Oil: an economic crisis like nothing the world has ever seen.
Oil, guns and money
What’s really behind the recent redeployment of U.S. military forces? Making sure no one messes with American access to global energy resources. An excerpt from “Oil: Anatomy of an Industry.”
China’s Great Depression
The development and the causes of the Inflationary Boom of the 1920s and provides a basis for comparison with the economic policies of modern-day China. This time, however, the bust may be triggered by peak oil.
Nigeria: Police battle gangs over stolen crude
Extra troops are deploying to the southern Nigerian city of Port Harcourt in support of police battling armed gangs linked to local political groups and an illicit trade in stolen crude.
ASPO September Newsletter
The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas’s September newsletter is essential reading.
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.
Bush’s ruinous economic plans
There’s a growing consensus among experts that the most recent wave of oil price hikes is not mainly the result of market manipulation, refining bottlenecks, or the Iraq occupation but the harbinger of the long-predicted depletion of the world’s extractable oil reserves.
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.
