Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
It behooves us to keep track of what’s going on at the tar sands in so far as the “official” story now states that well-being of the world’s most voracious oil consumer depends on steadily rising synthetic crude output. A close look reveals that all is not well along the Athabasca River.
An uptick in violence in distant Nigeria helped to send crude oil prices through the roof today.
January ASPO Newsletter
The Oil Drum year in review
Robert Rapier’s top 10 energy stories
Draft of “Net Oil Export” paper – comments?
Financial Times cautiously opening to peak oil
Think again, Vijay V. Vaitheeswaran!
Robert Hirsch: What is peak oil?
NASA scientist on PO and climate
Australia’s CSIRO willing to look at oil vulnerability?
Oil touches $100 a barrel
The Bet
Russian oil output growth accelerates from 7-year low (but exports?)
OPEC could fail to meet oil demand by 2037
Woes mount for Mexico’s state oil titan
Political peak oil
New Scientist: ‘Year of the environment’
Top 10 global warming stories
Independent: ‘The sheer scale hasn’t sunk in’
Gwynne Dyer: It was all about oil, global warming
Kite powered ships
Slow down, you drive too fast – got to make the oil last
Air Force to fly on synthetic fuel?
Amtrak sees ridership rise
Vermont passes up state-of-art trains
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– US Petroleum Inventories
– Policies Shifting in China
– Energy Briefs
Also: an interesting 1975 memo from M.K. Hubbert detailing a heated confrontation between him and the U.S. Geological Survey
The Oil and the Glory: slick account of geopolitics in Central Asia
Chavez oil diplomacy gains ground
Chavez announces “a new geopolitics of oil”
Running just to stand still (Mexico’s Pemex)
Gods of the rotary table
Australia: Big Oil’s highway robbery
New Type of coal plant moves ahead, haltingly
Uranium deposit sparks controversy in Pittsylvania county
NASA scientist on PO and climate change
Life after peak oil: not so bad
Saudi Aramco: don’t worry about PO
Busting the Hubbert myths
DVDs of the 2007 Houston ASPO conference
Review of Crude Awakening by leftist paper
Russia signs deal for Caspian gas pipeline
Russia’s big energy secret: can barely meet own demand
Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan sign Caspian pipeline accord
The Pipeline War: As the CondiBoys bicker, Putin laps the West again
