Peak oil – Apr 17
The Economist: Is there really an ocean of oil off Brazil?
Jean Laherrère: Hydrates updated
Petroleum Geologist Jeffrey J. Brown at UCSB
6 ways to profit from ‘peak oil’
Why do oil prices keep rising?
Industry
Energy geopolitics – Apr 16
Klare: The end of the world as you know it
Iraq opens door to foreign contracts at major oil fields
Paraguay hopeful eyes energy export prices
An unconventional play in the Bakken
Congratulations to those intrepid operators who are lifting oil out of the Middle Bakken. Despite this success, the Middle Bakken is clearly not the answer to our peak oil problems and dependency on foreign oil.
The peak is nigh – Kjell Aleklett interview
“You can play around with the words, but the hard-core truth is that something must come out of the ground at some time and that’s physics,” says Kjell Aleklett, professor in Physics at Uppsala University, Sweden, and president of ASPO International.
Peak oil – Apr 11
Rep. Bartlett at Ohio State teach-in
Chinese scholar on oil: Old supply, young demand
Wither peak oil at Rudd’s 2020 Summit?
IMF accepts peak oil ?
James Hansen: Yankee ticket prices and fossil fuels
Energy industries – Apr 8
The lost decade – pessimism about oil technology
The natural gas storage cycle
Platts: Depletion of oil reserves outpaces new production
Biofuels lifecycle assessment,
Peak oil – Apr 8
Matt Simmons sounds the alarm at EIA conference
Kazakhstan may impose oil duty from 2008
Minister: Australia’s own ‘peak oil’
Trinidad: Sweet in we mouth
IEA’s Birol says oil prices to stay high
Peak oil – Apr 3
Peak oil may worsen the climate crisis
Former OPEC official: Seeking a more stable oil market
Peak Oil 101
Shell CEO: Easy-to-produce oil, gas to peak in next decade
Russian March oil output falls again
Greenish ways – Apr 3
Solar thermal power – Big Gav’s info round-up
Put oil companies to work on geothermal
Businesses to spend $600 billion on ‘green accounting’
Transport – Apr 3
Truckers protest high fuel prices
Life without transport by oil is closer than we think
Former Exxon insider: People driving their cars to the end of the oil age
Aloha Airlines halting passenger service
United States – Apr 3
Group seeks EPA rules on vehicle emissions
Obama: I’d hire Gore
Clinton, Obama take on Big Oil
Oil execs asked to justify huge profits at Congressional hearing
The executives of the five biggest oil companies were called to testify at a congressional hearing on Tuesday. Lawmakers took them to task for making enormous profits but investing next to nothing in renewable sources of energy. (Excerpts from testimony) Followed by commentary from analyst Steve Kretzmann of Oil Change International.
