Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
I understand that the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO) will not always be invited to speak at CERA Week (Cambridge Energy Research Associates annual conference in Houston), but if I had been invited I could have discussed the CERA 2006 forecast of future oil production.
Prior to writing the article “The End of Cheap Oil” for the March 1998 issue of Scientific American magazine, Colin Campbell and I wrote four important oil and gas studies totaling about 1350 pages. After publication, our article was chosen as one out of 25 stories in the book Censored 1998, published by Sonoma State University.
The novel presents a fictional world that is at once idyllic and post-apocalyptic, reassuring and frightening.
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Canada
– $4 Gasoline
– Energy Briefs
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Hydrocarbons expert Nicolas Sarkis: ‘world has to get used to high oil prices’
Oil prices to stay above 60-70 dollars: Saudi Arabia
Under the pump (good Australian analysis)
Independent truckers see end of the road
ASPO-USA highlights the risks in CERA’s production forecast and also the possible consequences (which could be severe) if it’s wrong. Virtually every major organization public and private bases its planning on such optimistic projections.
Petroleum engineer on peak oil
Congressman Bartlett peak oil speech (transcript, slides, video)
Intro to satellite sleuthing: Finding Haradh III
Olduvai 2008 – the movie
Last week in the ODAC Newsletter I presented four background reasons why Professor Odell could write what he did in response to the article ‘The great fuel folly’ by Jeremy Leggett (The Guardian, February 15th and 5th 2008, respectively). The main reason was the existence of two very different data sets for how much oil the world has discovered – the oil industry’s proved and probable (‘2P’) data, and the very misleading proved reserves (‘1P’) data to which Odell has access. (See below for why 1P data can be so treacherous)…
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Russian giant looms over Europe (Gazprom)
Brazil: An energized giant
Ghana: Crude oil – blessing or curse?
US sees Iran nuclear dispute going to 2009 (dwindling expectation of US airstrike)
S. Arabia LPG exports may start falling in 2010
Mexico’s Pemex posts $1.48 bln 2007 net loss
Norway state oil group Petoro’s Q4 output falls
Cuban oil production down
