Peak oil data – Sept 23
Snapshot from the EIA Monthly Review
Forecasts and EIA oil production numbers
Canada energy round-up
Tidbits from the WEC report
Natural Gas
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 helium?
Helium shortage hampers research and industry
Balloon sellers find helium in short supply
TODers mull peak helium
Energy & climate policy – Sept 1
China takes “urgent” energy challenge to masses
Nations agree on need for action on climate change
U.N. climate talks end in cloud of discord
Oil-producing nations will have to control gas flaring
World Bank calls on oil producers to cut $50bn gas fire
Energy industry – Aug 29
How to get a pipeline built (tutorial)
Running out of roughnecks
Big Oil sees Gulf of Mexico as pricey but accessible
Carnegie Mellon researchers question investing in LNG
New method of extracting heavy oil: Toe to heel air injection (THAI)
Do EIA natural gas forecasts contain systematic errors?
Research findings give considerable face validity to criticisms by some commentators (e.g. American Association of Petroleum Geologists) that EIA forecasts present a consistently “optimistic” view of NG – e.g. underestimating price and overestimating supply.
Peak oil – Aug 12
Middle East risks fuel oil crunch period, says IEA
Cuba: Oil and pollution at a critical stage
Trindidad and Tobago: Audit shows natural gas will run out by 2019 (Don’t panic)
ODAC News
Geopolitics – Aug 11
Canada uses military might in Arctic scramble
Chavez tour: oil & gas, gas & oil
Cold snap prompts Chile to seek gas deal with old foe Bolivia
Energy industry – Aug 4
Alaska’s addiction (oil industry influence)
Oil firms’ buybacks pump up criticism
Peak oil and what it means to the petroleum industry
Growing risk: the payback (gas market)
Peak oil – Aug 2
Interview with Jean Laherrère
The incredible disappearing 140 Tcf of Canadian gas
Astyk:
How to explain peak oil to anyone
Fuelhard
Review: The Last Oil Shock
Ask not for whom The wind blows…
Compressed gas hits the metals markets
All societies on earth face a Catch 22. We need to use fossil fuels to extract and manufacture resources to allow a transition to a liquefied natural gas infrastructure. Then our societies will have to use the remaining natural gas reserves to exploit even more minerals and commodities to transition to electric infrastructure.
Renewables – July 27
Robert Rapier: The future is solar
Is IBM going solar?
Biogenic methane?
