First signs of a global decline in oil?
New statistics are claiming that oil production in 18 producer countries has passed its peak and is declining faster than previously thought: At about 1.14 million barrels a day.
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Audio: Experts: Oil Production Peak Inevitable
The summer’s record high oil prices and tight supplies raise questions about how much oil is left.
9-11 and peak oil: connecting the dots
History professor and 9-11 skeptic Carolyn Baker discusses the connection between the events of 9-11 and peak oil.
Oil’s slippery slope
s the neo-conservative dream of a “liberated” Iraq came true in April 2003, who would have predicted that 16 months later oil would become the ultimate time bomb for the Bush administration?
Why we (still) need 60 dollars per barrel
Oil is no longer a free good made available to the aging consumer heartlands, but a vital and hard-to-substitute commodity that is entirely nonrenewable at human timescales, and whose ultimate peak of production is looming ever closer.
Over a million barrels of oil a day lost to depletion
The world is now losing more than a million barrels of oil a day to depletion – twice the rate of two years ago – according to a new analysis published this month in Petroleum Review.
Tallying oil reserves: inexact science
Estimating how much oil a company owns thousands of feet underground is, at best, a slippery business.
Oil Prices Fall to $45 as Iraq Oil Flows
Oil prices fell nearly a dollar to end just above $45 on Tuesday, in a third day of losses as a more optimistic Iraq export picture helped unwind some of the supply worries.
An answer in Somerset: The Age of Entropy is here. We should all now be learning how to live without oil
‘Never again,” the Texas oil baron and corporate raider T Boone Pickens announced this month, “will we pump more than 82m barrels.” As we are pumping 82m barrels of oil a day at the moment, what Pickens is saying is that global production has peaked. If he is right, then the oil geologist Kenneth Deffeyes, who announced to general ridicule last year that he was “99% confident” it would happen in 2004, has been vindicated. Rather more importantly, industrial civilisation is over.
Stocks set for crash like 1987, Roach says
Global stock markets may have something far more ominous to worry about than the recent spike in oil prices, with one economist seeing a ‘Black Monday’ scenario in the making.
China’s oil appetite could undermine U.S. energy plans
China’s dramatic increase in energy consumption – coupled with political problems in the oil-producing countries of Iraq, Russia and Venezuela – could have dramatic negative effects on the U.S. and world economies.
The hydrogen challenge to Arab oil has it’s pitfalls
While world supply of conventional oil looks set to peak, hydrogen has long been proposed as a solution. But in spite of billions of dollars now being spent on research, no one has yet found a simple, safe and cheap way to produce it.
