Trouble in the oil patch – Feb 1
Big Oil has trouble finding new fields
Western majors feel the squeeze
Shell feeds doubts about oil industry
Oil
The limits to scenario planning
I was involved in one of those periodic discussions that spring up about The Limits To Growth recently and found myself wondering, not for the first time, if other people have read a completely different version of the book to the one I possess.
Peak oil – Feb 1
Satellite o’er the desert (Saudi oil supply)
IEA refutes ‘peak oil’, points to lack of investment
Minnesota legislators to hear from Simmons
Rifkin: Europe could make the third industrial revolution’
ODAC Guest Commentary – Shell 2007 profits
Shell’s 108,000 employees earned “an obscene” £14 billion in profits last year.
If, as I imagine, Shell keeps a similar number of contractors off the books to keep the head-count down, the profit per head is about £70k. If you earned £70k as profit in a business, you probably wouldn’t expect to be sand-bagged with a windfall tax by a starving Chancellor.
Asking better questions
The discussion at The Oil Drum takes a more personal nature with me; much of my own history involves looking back toward a simpler time in agriculture. (The account of a “recovering energy engineer.”)
Former CEO of Talisman Energy: Peak oil is ‘here or hereabouts’
Dr Jim Buckee has just retired as President and CEO of Talisman Energy, a major independent Canadian oil company with a market capitalisation of $25-billion. On the phone from Perth, Dr Buckee told me that ‘peak oil’ was now either here, or very close.
Peak oil – Jan 30
Indonesia urged to promote low-carbon economy
Rep. Bartlett responds to Bush’s SOTU
The end of oil is just a game
Biggs’s tips for rich (a little ‘peak oil’ in his morning coffee?)
Canada and U.S. – Jan 30
Heavy footprint weighs down U.S. empire
Why Cape Breton shakes in the echo of this distant boom (tarsands)
The energy efficiency option
Energy supplies – Jan 29
The kinder, gentler energy superpower: Canada
The oil majors in Africa: Trickier times ahead for big fish
Supergrid could provide 30% of Europe’s electricity
Norwegian gas will go to highest bidder
Peak oil – Jan 29
TOD blockbuster: “Powering civilization to 2050” by Stuart Staniford
Will peak oil drive relocalization?
Investment guru Jim Rogers: $90 to $100 oil not high enough to slow demand
Barclays Capital: Triple digit oil price regardless of peak
Science 1101 – Petroleum and peak oil
A university near where I live plans to add a short unit on “Petroleum and Peak Oil” to their Science 1101 course for freshman who are not science majors. The university asked me to prepare materials for the unit. (Draft)
Peak oil – Jan 28
Peak oil activist in the Wall Street Journal
Shell: Fuel crisis looms by 2015
US petroleum supply, ethanol, and state of the industry
