Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
When OPEC gathers in a closed room to discuss a production increase, only one country (the Saudis) can do much about increasing production. Most of the rest just want to see higher and higher prices, in some stable currency, so as to get the most real return for their oil before it runs out.
Brazil’s announcement of the Tupi discovery created a lot of buzz in the oil industry and the press. Let’s take a closer look at Brazil’s oil production and what role the Tupi field will likely play in the future.
Two closely related crises of immense proportions are breaking upon the world: “climate change” and “peak oil.” Together we can call them the “fossil fuel crisis.”
The newly elected PM is taking over at a time of looming economic crisis due to Peak Oil. An Australian engineer describes the problem and outlines the steps he thinks are required.
Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari, one of the world’s foremost experts on the subject of peak oil, died suddenly and unexpectedly on October 30 of a heart attack. During this century he spoke out and wrote early and often about the subject of peak oil and its looming consequences.
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The OPEC Meeting
– The Venezuelan Election
– Energy Briefs
Does the latest IEA number matter?
Trends directing flow of capital into oil markets
World likely to rely on Saudi oil
Hirsch warns about peak oil
Of hierarchies, thresholds and oil
Peak oil in the Australian media
ODAC news
Peak Oil Review from ASPO-USA
Practical tools to grow an intentional community
Permaculture pathways to a low carbon future
O.U.R. ecovillage
Our global food system faces a crisis of unprecedented scope. This crisis, which threatens to imperil the lives of hundreds of millions and possibly billions of human beings, consists of four simultaneously colliding dilemmas, all arising from our relatively recent pattern of dependence on depleting fossil fuels.
If we don’t label ourselves, someone will do it for us.
Oil decline pressing Vermonters now
Connecticut legislator in a bind: PO vs LNG
IBM engineer on peak oil
Peak oil, class struggle, and the thermodynamics of production
$100 oil fades fast
The high-stakes U.S. courtship of Turkmenistan
Venezuela threatens to cut oil exports to U.S
The 10 oil producers most likely to shock the world
OPEC countries will rival China in 08 oil demand growth
