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ODAC Newsletter – Feb 8
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
Peak oil address to House of Representatives
Ny wife tells me I shouldn’t be talking about these things because don’t I remember that in ancient Greece they killed the messenger that brought bad news. I tell her this is a good-news story. The sooner we start, the easier the trip will be. I’m really exhilarated by this.
Peak oil – Feb 8
Oil sector’s problem replacing reserves could worsen
Big picture Russia: oil production & taxes
CERA oil conference: the $22 trillion question
Deffeyes: the second Great Depression
Gail Tverberg’s PO tutorial (part 2)
Keeping the oil flowing
Sheryl Crow’s apocalyptic peak oil song
ODAC Guest Commentary – BP Marathon oil find
Around 95% of UK oil production has come from the North Sea. A little oil is also produced from onshore and the Irish Sea off Wales and near to 10% of output now comes from the southern part of the Norwegian Sea, west of the Shetland Isles but in total the UK has seen declining output since 1999.
Proportionality
There is a strange clause in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that applies to only one country—Canada. The clause states that Canada must continue to supply the same proportion of its oil and gas resources to the US in future years as it does now. That’s rather a good deal for the US: it formalizes Canada’s status as a resource satellite of its imperial hub to the south.
Peak oil – Feb 7
WSJ: Peak-oilers put money where mouths are
BP to ‘put lights out’ on North Sea
Telegraph: Why the price of ‘peak oil’ is famine
David Strahan at World Energy Summit
Analyst Maxwell: PO means 10-year crisis
Desperately seeking energy in Lincoln, Mass.
ODAC Guest Commentary – BP Marathon oil find
BP chief executive Tony Hayward stressed the company’s commitment to the North Sea during its results press conference this week, saying it would continue to produce there “until we put the lights out”.
Energy prices and producers – Feb 6
Why the Saudis aren’t lifting a finger to ease oil prices
Byron King: Brazil’s recent oil discovery
Energy prices, inflation and denial
Asia coal prices at record high
Peak oil – Feb 6
Minnesota state legislators discuss oil reserves drying up
Lester Brown: World oil supply may have already peaked
Gail the Actuary: The science of oil and peak oil
Fertilizer – Feb 6
Fertiliser famine threats to hit harvests
Gulf to become major fertiliser producer
Nebraska Farmer: Time to be more accurate with fertilizer
Farm group backs plan for fertiliser price probe
Market spotlight: fertilizer companies
Group bets $100,000 against CERA supply forecast
A group of businessmen and energy experts who believe that global oil production will soon peak, plateau and decline has issued a $100,000 wager to Cambridge Energy Research Associates (CERA), a prominent oil forecasting think tank. Members of the challenger group also renewed an invitation to hold a public debate on the issue of peak oil with CERA.
