Peak oil – Apr 7
A top Saudi bank expects fall in oil production
Shell, Total chief execs say ‘easy oil’ is gone
Carrboro (NC) gets it about PO
Book review of Peak Oil Prep
New documentary: Energy Crossroads
Industry
Peak coal by 2025 say researchers
“Global coal reserve data are of poor quality, but seem to be biased towards the high side. Production profile projections suggest the global peak of coal production to occur around 2025 at 30 percent above current production in the best case. There should be a wide discussion on this subject leading to better data in order to provide a reliable and transparent basis for long term decisions regarding the future structure of our energy system.” (Excerpts)
Oil industry – Apr 4
Why is gas expensive?
Judge tosses $7.6M Kerr-McGee verdict
Beijing explores sea beds, in search of oil
UAE awards Hormuz bypass oil pipeline contract
Toughening up rigs in the Gulf of Mexico
Peak oil – March 31
Swedish PhD thesis: World oil production close to peak
Helicopter industry watching peak oil
Congressman Bartlett Warns Of A Energy Crisis
Oil industry – March 30
Marseille dispute threatens fuel supplies
Big Oil spends more, only some see 2007 output up
From what was once Yukos, Russia builds state-owned oil giant
Pertamina acknowledges LPG scarcity
GAO: U.S. needs a peak oil strategy
Highlights from the just released GAO report on peak oil: “Uncertainty about future oil supply makes it important to develop a strategy for addressing a peak and decline in oil production.”
I’m going to go and eat some worms
Why should the United States, members of Congress asked, take any action on climate change when China and India weren’t doing anything about their CO2 emissions? One witness compared their attitude to the childhood lament, “Nobody likes me, everybody hates me, I’m going to go and eat some worms.”
Peak oil – March 28
Variety gives thumbs up to “Crude Impact”
Peak oil – Who to believe?
Review: “The Last Oil” Shock by David Strahan
Peak oil scenario paints frightening future
Climate policy – Mar 27
NZ Greens target key sectors in new policy
Super funds have fiduciary role
Putting carbon emissions in neutral
The geriatric climate change imperative
Oil producers – March 27
As if gold weren’t bad enough, now they have found oil
Transparency urged in U.S. payments to oil producers
What’s happened to Iraq’s oil?
Sunni politicians critical of Iraqi oil law
Exxon sees technology, local needs as Mideast key
Oil Industry – Mar 26
Venezuela to sell $5 Billion in oil co. bonds
Recent kidnappings of foreigners in Niger delta
China starts drilling Asia’s deepest well
Total Confusion in Iran
CERA lists 15 countries it believes will expand production
Environmental discourse and the paradox of the open society
How does one fight back without destroying the very principles of openness that make it possible to draw on the talents of all while safeguarding freedom of expression?
