Geopolitical – Oct 31
Venezuela’s gas prices remain low, but political costs may be rising
Why did we invade Iraq anyway?
Iraq’s oil: the plot thickens
Oil
Energy industries – Oct 31
College graduates heading to careers in … the coal mines
Coal leaving a trail of environmental devastation
Oil shale may finally have its moment
Oil prices – Oct 31
Oil jumps $4 on Fed, supplies (now over $94)
The new math of oil
OPEC says pumping more won’t bring oil price down
Get used to $100 oil, OPEC warns
Higher oil prices blamed on peaking production
A Voice of America correspondent went to the ASPO-USA peak oil conference in Houston recently and filed this report. (text and video)
After the peak?
The world has never been to peak oil before and there are so many factors that will affect a world in oil depletion, it is difficult, or better yet nigh impossible, to paint a picture of what life will be like 10 or 20 years from now.
Oil reserves over-inflated by 300bn barrels – al-Huseini
The world’s proved reserves have been have been falsely puffed up by the inclusion of 300 billion barrels of speculative resources, according to the former head of exploration and production at Saudi Aramco, and this explains the industry’s inability to raise output despite soaring prices.
Peak oil – Oct 30
Libya oil head: global output can only reach 100 million barrels/day
IHT: No real alternative to oil
Why Malcolm Wicks really hasn’t got this peak oil thing
Connecticut peak oil and NG caucus
Oil Shockwave simulation: Iran sanction impacts on oil futures
Interview with Shell UK chairman
Liberal bloggers puzzle over peak oil
Energy industries – Oct 30
Dark side of a boom town (Alberta tar sands)
The iconic and ironic rural electric co-op
Opposition takes on coal plants
Rise in heavy oil refining could boost demand for hydrogen
Oil prices – Oct 30
How a Fed rate cut raises oil prices
Please don’t blame us for $93 oil: OPEC
Daniel Yergin: Oil prices becoming decoupled
Mideast – Oct 30
World oil output struggling, say Arab experts
Middle East can leave oily old cycle in the past
Iran adapts to economic pressure
ASPO-China is formed
At a Peak Oil workshop held October 26 at the China University of Petroleum Beijing (CUPB), it was unanimously agreed that ASPO-China should be formed and that Peak Oil research and modeling is essential to China.
Peak oil – Oct 29
‘Oil production has peaked’ according to al-Huseini (former head of exploration and production at Saudi Aramco)
China to reach peak oil production as early as 2015 says leading scholar in Beijing
“Requiem for Fossil Fuels” performed in NYC
Kunstler: Assumptions
Downloadable peak oil presentation
Kenneth Deffeyes on feedback loops
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