Oil prices and supplies – Apr 22
Emerging market oil use exceeds U.S.
Analyst on oil markets, conservation and climate policy
Nigeria’s oil output could fall by a third
Angola oil declines in 2014, state oil company
Oil
Peak oil – Apr 22
Fatih Birol (IEA) interview: ‘We have warned them’
Peak oil film shows impact on local community
Bartlett delivers 42nd peak oil special order
Future looks bleak at the peak
Geopolitics – Apr 21
The US, China, peak oil, and the demise of neoliberalism
What power looks like: meet the superclass
Energy industry – Apr 21
Abundant clean energy in your backyard: natural gas discoveries in US
Eni: Oil majors must rethink business
Oil majors forced to accept tough terms
Shell, Exxon face higher costs on carbon limits
Oil & commodity prices – Apr 21
Russian oil drop may be inflating prices
Weak dollar hits the poor
Why new oil price highs?
Surge in NG price stoked by new global trade
Peak oil at the New York Times
Jad Mouawad: The big thirst
Paul Krugman: Running out of planet to exploit
Krugman reads The Oil Drum
Saudi King Abdullah drops quiet bombshell; U.S. media sleep through it
Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah said he had ordered some new oil discoveries left untapped to preserve oil wealth in the world’s top exporter for future generation… (Responses from experts)
Peak Oil Review — April 21st, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a US peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– China
– Food vs. Fuel
– Brazil’s Giant Field
– Energy Briefs
Paraguay and Mexico – Apr 21
Leftist ex-bishop ends Colorado Party rule in Paraguay
Lugo plans to re-negotiate electricity deals
Calderon pushes plan to reform Pemex
Oil bill protest shuts Mexican Congress
A tempest in an oil barrel
Mexico’s unfinished reform
Cynthia McKinney on Mexican oil protest
Middle East – Apr 21
Cheap energy in UAE is over
Mideast’s oil consumption driving prices up
Iran’s president says oil prices too low
Saudis put oil capacity rise on hold
United States – Apr 21
Al Gore – New thinking on the climate crisis
Obama, Clinton woo coal vote in primaries
Obama’s response on oil money
Government as the trustee of common assets
ODAC Guest Commentary – Russian Production Decline: Why and what next?
In the first quarter of 2008, Russian production declined by 1% reversing a trend begun in 1998 that had resulted in a 58% increase in production from 6.2 MMBO/D to the current 9.76 MMBO/D. Actually, this was not the first decline in the ten year period, however, the slight decline in the first quarter of 2005 could clearly be attributed to an exceptionally cold period in Siberia and the reorganization and temporary drop in production as Rosneft took over Yuganskneft, the main producing asset of YUKOS.
