Venezuela, Russia – Feb 13
Venezuela halts oil sales to Exxon Mobil
Exxon VP: Interested in ‘fair market’ discussions with Venezuela
Russia, Ukraine reach last-minute deal, avert gas cut
Ukraine president to meet Putin
Industry
Energy industries – Feb 13
Greenhouse pollution from Midwest refineries may soar 40%
Drilling rush in Rockies raises health, safety concerns
Shell VP, exploration: ‘No more easy oil’
Southeast Asia’s looming nuclear power industry
Oil producers – Feb 12
Bolivia’s irresistible reserves
Clouds on Kurdistan’s horizon
Omani company’s output to decline for eighth year
Some Q&A about that $100,000 CERA bet
“Betting on depletion is like betting on rust. Your authors here, Udall and Andrews, are willing to wager CERA $10,000 [now $100,000] that petroleum liquids capacity won’t climb to 112 million barrels a day by 2017.”
Peak oil – Feb 10
CERA vs. Peak Oil: it’s getting serious
Oil crisis ahead? ‘Peakniks’ build for future
Queensland plans to cut fossil fuel use
Energy sources – Feb 10
Coalmine fire put out after half a century
Declining coal reserves add to energy worries
Natural gas may boom by default
The hoax of eco-friendly nuclear energy
Green laws and regulation risk energy crisis, say Europe’s power companies
Geopolitics – Feb 8
Internet interruption in the Middle East looks fishy (Iran oil bourse)
Spying against oil-rich Norway
Gazprom: gas talks with Ukraine end in failure
Chalmers Johnson: Oil wars and overreach
Venezuela’s U.S. assets too hard to freeze: Exxon
Oil resources at stake in Chad conflict
Peak oil – Feb 8
Oil sector’s problem replacing reserves could worsen
Big picture Russia: oil production & taxes
CERA oil conference: the $22 trillion question
Deffeyes: the second Great Depression
Gail Tverberg’s PO tutorial (part 2)
Keeping the oil flowing
Sheryl Crow’s apocalyptic peak oil song
Climate policy – Feb 7
Big oil stokes the fires for the planet to burn
Cap and trade and fairness for working families
Report attacks Australia’s climate policy
Group bets $100,000 against CERA supply forecast
A group of businessmen and energy experts who believe that global oil production will soon peak, plateau and decline has issued a $100,000 wager to Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), a prominent oil forecasting think tank. Members of the challenger group also renewed an invitation to hold a public debate on the issue of peak oil with CERA.
CERA’s productive capacity ruse
Why do Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA) state all of their forecasts in terms of a made-up category which bears no meaningful relationship to how much actual oil is available for refining at any given time to meet world demand?
Oil industry – Feb 2
Exxon Mobil profit sets record again
How oily is your candidate?
Jerome a Paris: BigOil big profits should not be taxed
The oil paradox
