Peak Oil Notes – June 4
A mid-week update, including:
-Prices and production
Industry
Peak oil & supplies – June 2
The latest peak oil projection: a stunning difference (Aleklett vs IEA)
Peak oil professor challenges IEA figures
Energy shock and oil myths (Rubin and Tertzakian)
ExxonMobil’s 2008 Corporate Citizenship Report (CCR) – & peak oil?
Global Storage Constraints Limit Oil Stockpiling
Peak oil review – June 1
A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Production and prices
-The rebound
-Brazil
-Briefs
Prices & supplies – May 31
IEA output forecasts are ‘outside reality’: Aleklett
Exxon Mobil CEO tells shareholders that fossil fuels have long future
Western world is faced with the crude reality of rising oil prices
Blogger Conference Call with Robert Ryan, VP of Global Exploration, Chevron
Hypocritical modelers
Exxon and its fossil fuel partners in the denial lobby seem to like models well enough when they use them for their own purposes; but through their hired mouthpieces they decry the use of models for climate change forecasting.
Review of RAND study, Imported Oil and US National Security (May, 2009)
RAND Corporation has brought its considerable expertise to bear on the national security implications of US oil import dependence…While this study examines this issue solely from an American perspective, many of its observations are applicable to other import-dependent nations. Although there is much of value in this report, I wish to challenge its central recommendation on how government should deal with price spikes and physical shortages.
United States – May 27
State of Paralysis
Natural Gas Politics
US steelworkers form unlikely alliance as renewables reinvigorate rustbelt
Peak Oil Review – May 25
A round of peak oil news, including:
-Production and Prices
-Washington
Commentary: Drilling with Charlie – Blizzard in the Badlands
I am no longer in the directional drilling business due to the industry downturn. Since many of us will not be returning to the oil fields, those who have this experience will be fewer in number, and the demands on their time will be great.
Mr. Market gets it wrong again
Let me take a moment to explain why oil prices reflecting actual market conditions might be important to us. Regardless of whether we are in the Peak Oil Era — we probably are — in 2009, we would like to know at all times what the relative abundance of the Elixir of Life (with respect to demand for it) for Industrial Civilizations is.
United States – May 21
How to follow the fossil fuel money on Capitol Hill
US energy use a national security threat: study
Kunstler: Bad collateral
America goes on furlough
Prices & supplies – May 19
A coming world that’s ‘a whole lot smaller’ (Jeff Rubin’s new book)
Raymond James: Don’t ‘underestimate’ oil’s coming 1980s-style down cycle
Why oil shortages may cause price decreases, rather than increases
The race to harness hydrates
