The Status of Global Oil Production: 2023 Update
Annual global oil production data are now available from the U.S. Department of Energy/Energy Information Administration (U.S. DOE/EIA) for 2022 so it’s time for an update on my 2022 report.
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The Status of Global Oil Production (Part 4)
This report covers oil production in Russia, including the former Soviet Union area, and in Asia.
The Status of Global Oil Production (Part 1)
Could it be that there is a politically less appealing but a more realistic explanation for what is causing high oil prices?
Will civilization collapse because it’s running out of oil?
This time, we’re going to have to start coming to terms with nature’s limits. That means shared sacrifice, cooperation, and belt tightening.
Foreword to Oil, Power and War
With Oil, Power and War, Matthieu Auzanneau has produced what I believe is the new definitive work on oil and its historic significance, supplanting even Daniel Yergin’s renowned The Prize, for reasons I’ll describe below.
Review: Oil, Power, and War by Matthieu Auzanneau
In Oil, Power, and War, French journalist Matthieu Auzanneau presents a comprehensive, provocative history of humankind’s relationship with oil.
The World Oil Supply is Infinite: I Know That Because I Believe It
Earth scientists have been making the case for years that the present level of human activity is not sustainable. We’re rapidly depleting resources, degrading ecosystems, altering the atmosphere, etc. What earth scientists are saying is generally not covered by the mainstream media, or is sugar coated, because the mainstream media is an outlet for the corporate perspective on the world.
World Energy Outlook 2016 – Fatih Birol in Brussels
On 16 November 2016 the International Energy Agency (IEA) presented its annual ”World Energy Outlook” report (WEO-2016).
OPEC production cut: Just another Saudi head fake?
The Saudis have not finished the job they set out to do … not merely to lower the production of oil from U.S. shale deposits–a goal which they’ve already achieved–but also to cripple funding for new projects.
World Outside US and Canada Doesn’t Produce more Crude Oil than in 2005
After a delay of several months the US Energy Information Administration has published the latest international energy statistics for October 2015
IEA in Davos 2016 Warns of Higher Oil Prices in a Few Years’ Time
This recent forum was about how to transition away from fossil fuels, after the UN conference on climate change in Paris in November 2015.
The Oil Pricequote
All evidence, however, points to a continuing depression in oil prices in 2016 — one that may, in fact, stretch into the 2020s and beyond.