Simmons: The Implications of Saudi Arabian Oil Declining (video)
Online video of two panel discussions exploring "How Stable Is the House of Saud?" and "An Impending Energy Crisis?"
Fossil Fuels
World’s Proven Reserves Jump 100 Gb in 2003?
British Petroleums latest statistical review of energy reserves and consumption shows a glaring discrepancy compared to last year – the magical appearance of an additional 100 billion barrels of oil!
Australian oil production declining fast
Latest US EIA data confirms Australian oil production dropping through the floor. Pity Prime Minister John Howard is too busy shovelling subsidies out to industry to consider responsible government.
Brinkmanship In The South Pacific
I would venture to speculate that the coming together of the strongest armada in history has more to do with oil and natural gas and nothing to do with Taiwan.
Peak Oil Debate Still Rages
Michael C. Lynch, the most vocal critic of Colin Campbell and other oil depletion ‘pessimists,’ tries to point out that within this debate we are dealing with a lot of assumptions and many unknowns.
Permanent Oil Shock
Those of you who were driving in the US in 1972-73 will vouch for the rapid changes that occurred across the board due to the decline of US oil output.
UK close to losing status as oil exporter
Britain came within an ace of becoming a net oil importer for the first time in 13 years in May, helping the country’s trade deficit widen unexpectedly to £3.4 billion.
Nine reasons the peak now looks more imminent
When Richard Heinberg wrote The Party’s Over he expected that global oil production peak would most likely to fall within the window of 2006 to 2015. These days (18 months after the book was finished) he’s “more likely to say 2006 to 2010.” Here’s nine events which explain that.
Deep Water Covers 180B Bbls Undiscovered Oil, Gas – Study
Deep water covers 180 billion barrels of the world’s undiscovered oil and natural gas reserves, more than twice the amount yet found, Scottish energy consultants Wood Mackenzie said Wednesday.
Report warns on soaring US natural gas prices
North America will experience the highest sustained natural gas prices in
history if no measures are taken to boost supply or damp demand, according to a
study released on Friday by Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA).
Review: The Truth about Oil and the Looming World Energy Crisis
The booklet addresses the topic of Peak Oil in a novel and refreshing way, as a commentary on an imaginary Public Inquiry.
The Venezuelan Referendum, Beware Jimmy Carter!
On August 14, 2004, Venezuelan voters will decide on a referendum, which has the utmost world historic and strategic significance. What is at stake is nothing less than the future of the energy world, the relations between the US and Latin America (particularly Cuba), and the political and socio-economic fate of millions of Venezuela’s urban and rural poor.
