Peak Oil Review – January 21st, 2008
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Peak Oil — Pro and Con
– Kashagan
– Food versus Fuel Again
– Energy Briefs
Oil
CERA’s depletion study: the “good news” about running up the down escalator
There’s more spin on this report than there is kudzu in Georgia. …Your authors here, Udall and Andrews, on behalf of ASPO-USA, are willing to wager CERA $10,000 that petroleum liquids capacity won’t climb to 112 million barrels a day by 2017.
The evil twins
Discussion of global warming seldom makes any connection between the ecology of temperature change and pending fuel shortages. This is a really bad error.
Energy industry – Jan 21
Prospecting for gas and oil in Lake Geneva
Panel: state of the energy industry
Oilsands producers get failing grade on environment
Coal industry plugs into the campaign
The coal truth on candidates
Peak oil – Jan 21
Wall St. Journal on CERA report
The construction site called Saudi Arabia
Shell exec on oil demand, climate and the energy ladder
CERA’s silly season
Bush’s allusion to peak oil
Tough sledding on other side of peak oil
EU energy chief warns about ‘peak oil’
Annals of the rising Lilliputians
The center of gravity of power is shifting relentlessly from the West. The most successful cars are made in Japan. The power of the purse is shifting to less profligate countries like Singapore, and petro-powers like Kuwait. Manufacturing has gone to China. Energy is in the hands of Saudi Arabia, Russia and others.
Peak oil: Why is it so difficult to explain/understand?
Peak Oil is about RATE. And RATE is dependent on the SIZE, AGE and QUALITY of the RESERVES.
Peak oil and coal – Jan 18
CERA v. peak oil
World not running out of oil, say experts
Bush acknowledges peak oil
The coal question revisited
Climate change (and PO) force car manufacturing rethink
Oil and economy – Jan 18
Petrol in Venezuela ‘almost free’
Probability of US recession growing: energy secretary
Oil falls again on signs US is in recession
A shell game of coal dust and green olympics
China has leapfrogged to where we in the West will be within a decade: using coal to power our economies and cities as conventional worldwide oil production continues to decline.
Peak oil – Jan 17
BP says world oil demand to peak
Benchmarks mark our likely advance to PO
Astyk: Making the case for PO and climate change
Kunstler and Kathy McMahon of PeakOilBlues
CERA says global 4.5% decline rate means no near-term peak
“Some of the more gloomy, pessimistic ‘peak oil’ views about the future of oil supplies result from an assumption of high decline rates. This new analysis provides the basis for more confidence about the future availability of oil.”
