Energy industry – Oct 5
Rising costs, shortages curb rush to cash in on oil boom
Engineer shortage hampers oil, gas production
Big Oil not kidding about pulling out of Alberta
Doomsday: Alberta stands accused
Industry
Electricity demand – Oct 2
New math for utilities: sell less, make more
Phoenix rates will rise
L.A. County calling for lights-out hour
‘Smart’ meters coming to B.C.
Energy industry – Oct 2
Recasting Big Oil’s battered image
Tough new rule may stop wells flaring in BC
Review: Stupid to the Last Drop (Alberta tar sands)
Once again, the NPC expects too much from enhanced oil recovery
In their recent 400+ page report, the National Petroleum Council (NPC) projects that enhanced oil recovery (EOR) will contribute an enormous increment of total global supply of petroleum liquids. By any reasonable analysis, NPC’s projection of EOR production rates is unachievable.
Peak oil – Sept 28
Private industry conference finds much less oil
The end of Las Vegas: why alternative energy sources won’t save us
Kunstler:
America’s new religion
ASPO conference confirms a peak in global oil production by 2012
A range of speakers stated that current trends in bringing new projects onstream indicate that global oil production would peak on or before 2012, a forecast that coincides with the latest announcement from International Energy Agency.
Peak oil – Sept 25
Ray Leonard (Kuwait Energy) at ASPO 6
“We Are All Peakists Now”
The ASPO Conference – a comment
Peak oil – Sept 23
FSN: Richard Heinberg interview
Matt Simons: Meeting the challenge
In praise of ASPO 6
ASPO conference – final afternoon
$100 oil anyone?
The button to hit is ‘Start,’ not ‘Panic’
Energy industry – Sept 20
Shell exec: Coherent energy policy needed
Oil industry flares $40 billion a year in gas
Chevron offers online energy game
Peak oil – Sept 20
Senior oilman Gareth Roberts on peak oil
T. Boone Pickens declines to predict oil prices
Kurt Cobb: The trouble with predictions
NPC presents “Hard Truth” study to California Energy Commission
Energy and nation – Sept 20
Interview: Top Iraq oilman Thamir Ghadhban
The vision of Venezuela’s National Oil Company
Energy CEOs call for Canadian national policy
Coal industry asks Washington for handouts
The fuel merchants of Zimbabwe (smuggling)
Peak oil – Sept 17
Interview at ASPO with James Schlesinger: “We are all peakists now”
An unlikely Paul Revere (Lee Raymond of Exxon)
Feb. Hirsch report on recent PO forecasts
Peak energy discussion panel
Peak oil on Hong Kong radio
Stanford prof:
The truth about reservoirs, drilling and cheap oil
