Low prices batter oil industry (and later the rest of us)

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

Low prices which seem felicitous now could foreshadow instability and trouble ahead. The world still depends on oil for about one-third of its energy needs.

Oil prices and the coming financial ‘Ice Age’

By Kurt Cobb, Resource Insights

Tverberg claims that added debt cannot seem to provide oil and other energy sources at cheap enough prices for the economy to flourish.

The Oil Production Story: Pre- and Post-Peak Nations

By Steve Andrews, ASPO-USA Peak Oil Review

Peak oil appears close but is not yet here, delayed rather than dead (as widely written in the media since 2012), and disguised by the inclusion of natural gas liquids in BP's accounting. Put this writer down for a likely (80% odds) peak in oil production between now and 2020.

What The Oil Drum meant

By Stuart Staniford, The Oil Drum

Over the last eight years, the predictions of the "moderates" in the peak oil debate came closest. We certainly don't live in the pre-2004 world any more. Oil prices are high, and there seems little prospect that they will ever fall below $100/barrel for any sustained period. Furthermore, the situation remains very vulnerable to disruption.

What future for petroleum?

By Marco Pagani, Cassandra's legacy

The IEA forecast for the future of petroleum is not only too optimistic, but also wrong because they are based on summing volumes of fuels which have different output and energy costs of extraction. Here you find the correct analysis, much less reassuring