Peak Oil Review –April 28th, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Nigeria
– Grangemouth
– Natural Gas Prices
– Energy Briefs
Industry
Prices & supplies – Apr 28
Oil may hit $200 as refiners buy costlier crude, Verleger says
Brazil oil trapped in 500-degree heat, metal-crushing pressure
Producers – Apr 27
Forties pipeline shutdown begins (TOD covers Grangemouth)
Protest in Mexico’s Congress over Pemex oil bill ends
Gas goes global
Peak oil – Apr 24
Where the oil rally goes
Russian oil has `peaked,’ billionaire Vekselberg says
The Bakken Formation: How much will it help?
Smarter energy – Apr 24
A steamy solution to global warming
Recycling waste heat from power plants
Local power: Community Choice Aggregation
Efficiency: the unloved solution that works
Putting your home on an energy diet
Peak oil – Apr 23
WSJ: Saudis face hurdle in new oil drilling
Peak Oil? Saudis squeeze the stone even harder
Naimi: Unqualified experts create fear in market
Shell’s chief strategist says 2015
Peak oil crisis interview
Krugman struggles with Limits to Growth
The 2020 Summit – will Rudd’s children forgive him?
If Rudd believes that the Summit succeeded in identifying the greatest and most immediate threat to Australia’s future – and provided him with ideas for response – then he is just plain wrong. Distressingly, there are strong hints that the summit topics – and the people who discussed them – were chosen with the aim of avoiding the contentious issues and, in particular, peak oil.
Paraguay and Mexico – Apr 21
Leftist ex-bishop ends Colorado Party rule in Paraguay
Lugo plans to re-negotiate electricity deals
Calderon pushes plan to reform Pemex
Oil bill protest shuts Mexican Congress
A tempest in an oil barrel
Mexico’s unfinished reform
Cynthia McKinney on Mexican oil protest
Energy industry – Apr 21
Abundant clean energy in your backyard: natural gas discoveries in US
Eni: Oil majors must rethink business
Oil majors forced to accept tough terms
Shell, Exxon face higher costs on carbon limits
Saudi King Abdullah drops quiet bombshell; U.S. media sleep through it
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah said he had ordered some new oil discoveries left untapped to preserve oil wealth in the world’s top exporter for future generation… (Responses from experts)
Peak oil – Apr 18
Middle East crude exports set to double in 2030
How not to prepare for peak oil
What future awaits Russia and the world after oil
Renewables – Apr 17
Renewables revolutionary Scheer visits UK
Calif. communities reach for power over energy
Native American company launches wind energy project
