United States – Mar 4
Americans start to curb thirst for gas
NYT: The Senate shills for Big Oil
Climate crisis getting short shrift in president race: Gore
‘Post fossil fuel era’ in Senate endorsement
Is belt tightening a threat?
Industry
Revisiting “The End of Cheap Oil”
Prior to writing the article “The End of Cheap Oil” for the March 1998 issue of Scientific American magazine, Colin Campbell and I wrote four important oil and gas studies totaling about 1350 pages. After publication, our article was chosen as one out of 25 stories in the book Censored 1998, published by Sonoma State University.
Uninvited observations
I understand that the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO) will not always be invited to speak at CERA Week (Cambridge Energy Research Associates annual conference in Houston), but if I had been invited I could have discussed the CERA 2006 forecast of future oil production.
Soothsayers in suits
ASPO-USA highlights the risks in CERA’s production forecast and also the possible consequences (which could be severe) if it’s wrong. Virtually every major organization public and private bases its planning on such optimistic projections.
United States – Feb 29
House OKs new taxes on big oil companies
Politics at the pump
Pelosi on Renewable Energy Act
Clinton’s efforts on ethanol overlap her husband’s interests
DOE not backing down on strategic reserve fill
Peak oil in Shell’s National Dialogue on Energy Security
In a report on its outreach program, Shell reaffirms its adherence to the “undulating plateau” view of peak oil. A Shell poll found that 2/3 of Americans believed that peak oil would come within 20 years.
Peak oil – Feb 28
TOD: Olduvai revisited 2008
Abu Dhabi energy summit: ‘urgent race to find solutions to the coming energy crisis.’
Oil could reach $300, says Simmons in Mideast
Shell report mentions PO:
A National Dialogue on Energy Security
Oil and geopolitics – Feb 27
Mexico’s oil output falls
Pemex in death throes amid political squabbling
The oil factor in Kosovo independence
U.S. energy
Democrats seek to boost taxes on oil companies
Won’t be easy to bollect $31B oil royalties
FutureGen CEO interview
Amid election, coal takes the offensive
WaPo editorial: The problem with biofuels
Peak oil – Feb 26
U.S. Rep. Roscoe Bartlett (R-MD) interview
Stuart Staniford: Whither the bumpy plateau?
Matt Simmons interview and slides
Global shortage of metals looming
Oil companies – Feb 25
As oil prices soar, prospectors return to Pennsylvania
Shell exec: US In an energy security ‘mess’
Western oil companies now decapitalizing
Oil industry – Feb 22
Venezuela settles with oil firms (except Exxon)
Russia’s oil industry threatened by high taxes, maturing fields
BP goes back to petroleum
Hofmeister: emissions cap, expand drilling
Shell says cheap renewable energy far off
