Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Dave Hughes’s guide to the end of the fossil fuel age
Byron King: Buckle your seat belts — investment earthquake in the energy sector ahead
A maverick’s message on oil (Jeff Rubin)
Plateau theory drives Total to oil sands
Brain power can meet the energy crisis
A weekly roundup of Peak Oil news, including:
-Production and prices
-Nigeria
-IEA lowers demand
-A changing LGN story
-Briefs
At the 2009 Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) in Houston two weeks ago, the top issues revolved around policy questions more than technology, such as drilling the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) and climate change legislation. I saw little in the way of progress, however.
Oil Prices: Norwegian Supply Falls; Is $100 Oil Far Away?
RAND says cost of oil supply disruption worst threat
Tight storage may lead to huge oil price drop
New PhD thesis: Depletion and decline curve analysis in crude oil production
A weekly review including:
– Production and Prices
– Venezuela
– EU Gas Deal
– The Message sinks in
A weekly review from a UK perspective
Report: The Interplay between Climate Change and Peak Oil
Blind Spot Trailer
Action on peak oil essential for business survival, say UK transport chiefs
Heritage Oil strikes big in Kurdish Iraq
Oil groups set to end 40-year exile from Iraq
Iraq bloodshed rises as US allies defect
A record number of natural gas wells were drilled in the United States last year. But now, in a stunning reversal, hundreds of rigs have been idled and thousands of roughnecks laid off. In the space of six months, the oilpatch has gone from drill, baby, drill to chill, baby, chill.
If you’ve been following energy news with a discerning eye, then you already know better than to buy into all the hype about the Canadian tar sands…Far from being a panacea for declining supplies of conventional oil, the sands could…leave Alberta resembling “a third-rate golf course in the Sudan”…The quote comes from Andrew Nikiforuk’s new book Tar Sands, a powerful, eloquent litany of horrors associated with North America’s frenzied dash toward tar sands bitumen.
Chinese subsidies boost rural consumption
It can be done but what is it we are doing?
Prosperity without Growth? – The transition to a sustainable economy
Is China really going green?
China urged to flex muscles on world struck by recession
China Set to Lead in “New Energy” Car Production
