US: Demand outpaces gas production
The natural gas industry faces a year of conflicting extremes in 2004.
Fossil Fuels
Natural Gas Updates – A Dark And Cold Future
Evidence of a looming North American Natural Gas crisis.
Increased Scrutiny Could Shrink World Oil Reserves
The world’s oil companies were already double-checking their books before Royal Dutch/Shell Group sent the industry into a tizzy this month by reducing the stated amounts of its proven reserves by almost 4 billion barrels of oil and natural gas. That’s 20% of its total.
BP: oil price will stay high
LORD BROWNE, chief executive of BP, the world’s second-largest oil company, has warned the City and British industry to prepare for a long period of high oil prices.
Educating Arnie about LNG safety
AUSTRALIA has offered to send technical experts to the US to convince the California administration of Arnold Schwarzwenegger that liquefied natural gas plants can be environmentally safe and secure.
China: Hungry for Power (Part 3)
It is about oil
IEA 2004 world oil demand forecast up 50,000 b/d to 79.63-mil b/d
The International Energy Agency Friday raised its estimate of global oil demand in 2004 by 50,000 b/d to 79.63-mil b/d.
Canada Raises Reserve Reporting Standards
US could follow in wake of Shell scandal
Peak Oil’s theorists “extraordinary narrow research base”
An email from an economist expressing some reasonable concerns about the limited research available predicting or negating imminent oil peak.
Fast Food World: Perils and Promises of the Global Food Chain (excerpt)
Q: Do you think that we have changed the carrying capacity of the earth through fossil fuels to the extent that we could not support the current population with organic agriculture free of synthetic fertilizers?
China: Hungry for Power (Part 2)
The human price of coal.
Managing America’s Natural Gas “Crisis”
Sharp increases in short-term natural gas prices have prompted some to call for more drilling on public lands and fewer environmental safeguards on gas exploration and use. This January 2004 NRDC analysis confirms emphatically what U.S. Secretary of Energy Spencer Abraham has already acknowledged: the fastest, cheapest and cleanest forms of relief from these increases come from more efficient use of natural gas.
