Oil industry – Dec 2
Fire shuts key Canada-U.S. pipeline
Big Gav on shale oil
Massive Canadian oilfield could be exploited using new system (THAI)
Industry
Surfing the ultimate peak
The image of a surfer chasing a tanker illustrates perfectly the oil-dependence of the sport as a whole. It is the definition of a free ride.
Oil industry – Nov 27
Big Oil PR blitz suggests the un-reformed industry just wants to be friends – so shut up!
Gail the Actuary’s visit to Shell’s Brutus off-shore oil/gas platform
Oil and gasoline prices: The crack spread
So much money in environmental devastation that it can’t be stopped?
Peak banana
Perhaps the public would be better served if all those who are now under orders to use euphemisms when referring to peak oil were to follow Alfred Kahn’s lead and use the word “banana” in their place.
The peak oil crisis: Wall Street comes to reality
The Wall Street Journal’s story marks an important turning point in the public’s understanding of peak oil.
Oil producers – Nov 21
Nigeria seeks control of energy industry
The 10 oil producers most likely to shock the world (10/tie: Angola/Equatorial Guinea)
Bad news from Canada
New oil crisis: an engineer shortage
Industry insider blogging peak oil
A petroleum engineer, former chair of API-Houston, has started a peak oil blog and summarized the recent ASPO-USA conference.
Peak oil – Nov 20
Long-term oil gloom spreads in Houston
Heinberg: preparing for a world without oil
Is the decline of base production accelerating? (“hardcore PO wonkery”)
Decline rates from the megaproject forecasts
Wired on WSJ peak oil article
WSJ takes peak oil seriously – need another fringe topic
Peak oil- How will you ride the slide?
Energy Bulletin on the Reality Report
Oil producers – Nov 19
Kuwait’s petrodollar dilemma: Mountains of cash … how to utilize it?
Brazil, the new oil superpower
Antarctica, the new hot real estate
Bottom line obsessed, Big Oil is forsaking the future
WSJ front page: Oil officials see limit
A growing number of oil-industry chieftains are endorsing an idea long deemed fringe: The world is approaching a practical limit to the number of barrels of crude oil that can be pumped every day. (Excerpt and comments from Dave Cohen of ASPO-USA, Jeffrey Brown, Rep. Bartlett’s staff and Energy Bulletin)
All eyes upon OPEC – Nov 17
OPEC experts call for expansion of oil supply
Open mike: OPEC communique shouldn’t mention dollar
OPEC examines the benefits of boosting capacity
OPEC looks to the future, its clients to the present
OPEC to discuss currency basket
High oil prices confound OPEC
OPEC promises expensive oil
OPEC shifts its stance on climate change
OPEC to reject oil output boost, seek carbon cutback
Energy industries – Nov 17
Quest for dialogue drove Shell Oil tour
Oil sands forecast cut as costs increase 50%
Coal demand expected to rise through 2030
