Peak oil – Mar 19
Peak oil theorist goes mainstream in Cape Town
Chris Skrebowski in South Africa
An EROEI review
Why we can’t quit (Hess interview)
Industry
The Americas – Mar 19
Venezuelan oil exports down 192,000 bpd in 2007
Mexico braces for an oil war
Shell wants to produce 5x more oil from tar sands
Energy independence- US’s road not taken
United States – Mar 11
Our three-decade recession
Labor’s war on global warming
Green movement is reaching for the rainbow
Volunteers help warm New England homes
Big Oil profit pushes Democrats to seek $1.8 billion
Arctic – Mar 11
Jean Laherrere: Arctic oil and gas ultimates
Could Arctic ice melt spawn new kind of cold war?
Climate change may spark conflict with Russia, EU told
Sense and nonsense from Nansen Saleri
A retired friend of ours from the oil industry once offered some sage advice: “When my colleagues in the industry are presenting, they are either buying or selling.” Saleri’s piece in the Wall Street Journal is a sales pitch.
Dysfunction from on high – Mar 9
UK energy bills rise 50% for low use
A win-win-win solution (carbon sequestration and the “staightjacket of rationality”)
Nature: Science in retreat in Canada
The first ever oil database: the history of Petroconsultants
The founder of ASPO describes the strange history of the oil database used by CERA/IHS, and how it is intertwined with the peak oil movement.
Caltex Australia’s unpleasant truth about gas prices
Petrol ‘will go to $3 a litre’
Petrol at what price?
Motoring group: prediction a ‘scare tactic’
The crude fact
Peak oil is no academic debate: the $100 barrel is a harbinger of the energy shortage to come. What do we do if the producers start keeping their fast-dwindling resources in order to power up their own fast-expanding economies? An oil shock then risks turning into an energy famine.
Peak oil – Mar 5
Warren Buffett on net energy and peak oil
WSJ’s Neil King explains PO and oil prices on PBS NewsHour
Peak oil is a cost issue
Oil’s wakeup call
Oil supplies and prices – Mar 5
Oil hits $104 as OPEC rebuffs Bush
Non-OPEC oil production likely to disappoint over 2008
Saudi Arabia’s crude oil reserves propaganda
Merrill Lynch: Oil scarcity will dampen world economy
Force majeure
Hardly a day passes without new oil outages in Nigeria. Let’s examine oil fields scheduled to come on-stream, the newly elected Nigerian government, and the security situation. Welcome to the world of peak oil and rising prices.
