Misc energy – Oct 28
Shell bid may start rush for oil sands majors /
Indian Oil plans $6 billion refinery in Ceyhan of Turkey /
Blair welcomes new gas pipeline from Norway /
Making fire from ice: a new fuel for the 21st century (gas hydrate)
Natural Gas
We are living like gods. How to return to earth?
Random snippets from ASPO conference just held in Boston.
Peak oil – Oct 24
Fuel prices as we go over the top /
An unsustainable outlook (FT special on energy) /
Enter Barack Obama /
The tragic consequences of the high discounting of oil extraction /
Heinberg interview /
Chevron’s Big Oil ambassador /
What peak? Oh, that peak
Mr. Market, manic-depressive: Is there a cure?
For society as a whole, the manic-depressive nature of markets can have serious and even potentially dangerous consequences. Wild price swings make it difficult for people, companies and governments to plan. It is just such behavior which has characterized the energy markets in recent years.
Energy giant Russia – Oct 21
BBC Europe diary: The gas man /
More thoughts about Gazprom /
Israeli PM raises energy issue in Moscow /
The emerging Russian giant plays its cards strategically
EU energy crisis – Oct 19
EU unveils energy plan /
Europe faces threat of power shortages /
Experts Predict Black-Out Winters in Europe /
EU losing faith in Russia energy charter scheme /
Putin v. Europe /
Who controls EU gas transit?
Payback analysis: an impediment to sustainability
To a traditional economist, one who boils life’s complexities down to income, outflows and the time value of money, our decision to install a solar domestic hot water system doesn’t make a whole lot of sense.
Russia – Oct 17
Shell welcomes Gazprom at Sakhalin, says all issues resolved
Russia to check all oil firms amid Shell row
Experts predict black-out winters in Europe
Gazprom to develop Shtokman alone, pipe gas to Europe
In a surprise move, Russia’s OAO Gazprom announced on Oct. 9 that it will develop giant Shtokman (Shtokmanovskoye) natural gas-condensate field in the Barents Sea without foreign partners and will pipe the gas to Europe rather than convert it to LNG for North American markets as had been planned.
Russia – Oct 4
Chief engineer at BP unit in Siberia is slain
Russian oil grab ‘puts western supplies at risk’
Russian giant sweeps into US towns with a $35mn campaign
Environment cop puts the screws to Shell’s Sakhalin
Gazprom starts to build pipelines connecting Russia and China
Schizophrenia in the British gas market
British energy customers must be wondering when the continued bad news of price increases will end. In a mini-version of “Peak Oil” in the UK, the sceptred isle will become and stay a net oil and gas importer next year.
Energy Industry – Oct 2
Iran MP says Japan oil deal ‘to be cancelled’
Nigerian Militants kill troops on Shell convoy
Indonesia warns Japan LNG exports to halve by 2010
Norways Statoil hunts for big oil sands deal
Dow suing Nova over ethane feedstock supplies
