Peak oil – May 24
Svenska Dagbladet: Oil up on reduced prognoses
Oil Search’s Peter Botton on PO and oil prices
Independent: World about to be running on empty?
Peak oil hits new heights and the view is not pretty
Industry
Drilling – May 24
Savings from Arctic drilling – 75 cents a barrel
Oil industry, lawmakers aim to lift bans on drilling
Will domestic drilling decrease prices?
Blaming oil companies – May 24
The same old song on high gas prices
Greg Palast: Obama’s secret war profiteering tax
Drilling – May 23
Rep. Bartlett, in reversal, backs drilling in Arctic refuge
Drilling top priority for America
Florida senator: Drilling is no solution
Feds: Much of oil, gas under lands off limits
Oil industry – May 23
Oil execs defend huge profits before Senate
Oil companies plan on higher crude prices
Crude’s price surge attracts oil-field thieves
Garages use ‘stingers’ to combat petrol theft
Prices – May 23
Producers say $200 oil is possible
Oil is little changed, after falling on signs that gains are unjustified
Soros, Ghanem, Tanaka, Chalabi on $135 oil
Skyrocketing oil prices stump experts
Another day, another record: oil tops $135
Experts: High oil prices are here to stay
Peak oil – May 23
Chris Skrebowski on BBC News: ‘We’re in the foothills of peak oil’
Jeroen van der Veer, chief executive of Shell, on peak oil
Peak oil in Paris: IEA now skittish too
Wall Street succumbs to peak oil
IEA plans to lower oil supply forecast
The Wall Street Peak Oil Journal
Why Dems and Republicans are afraid of two words: peak oil
Energy industry – May 20
Exxon facing shareholder revolt over approach to climate change
Drilling for defeat? (politics in US West)
Energy industry seeks a boom in youth
Prices & supplies – May 20
Oil rises on speculation Saudi supply increase won’t cut prices
UK’s Brown calls for end to the power of Opec
Not enough oil is lament of BP, Exxon
Supply side follies
Lower oil production, exploding production costs and capturing a shrinking fraction of oil profits has not prevented oil companies from enjoying record high profits. These profits are so large that they have masked the fact that US corporate profits are otherwise in the doldrums
Prices & supplies – May 17
UK BERR projects oil at $70 in 2020
Some see oil bubble; others see trouble
Refiners see profits sink as consumption falls
LA Times: Keep stockpiling oil
Peak oil and politicians
I asked Lisa Wright why Rep. Bartlett’s office thinks the peak oil issue has gotten so little traction in the media and with politicians. “Hard truths are hard to talk about as well as hard to absorb,” she said. But, she added, “It’s a chicken and egg conundrum. To the extent that voters become informed and aware through media, you’ll find that candidates will follow.”
