Peak Oil Review – October 29th, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– Tanker Trackers
– Alberta
– The Energy Watch Group
– Energy Briefs
Oil
A dose of reality for enhanced oil recovery (EOR) projection
There is a huge discrepancy between the National Petroleum Council’s (NPC) projection for enhanced oil recovery (EOR), and the history of actual EOR results. Where does EOR succeed and where does it not?
Ripple effects – Oct 28
High oil prices hit Chinese petrol stations
Oil price ‘grounds’ N Korea air fleet
Airlines struggle to keep pace with soaring fuel costs
Zimbabwe faces energy crisis
Ill-conceived energy strategies for developing countries
Mideast views – Oct 28
Opec to study basket of currencies for oil pricing
Why Kuwait wants to shift to heavy oil
Gulf countries eye alternative energy
China’s role in the oil price rise
Energy industry – Oct 28
Russia turning Big Oil into employees
China coal boom attracts US investors, business
Arctic oil, gas offer challenge, potential
Geopolitics – Oct 27
Endgame for Iraqi oil?
How secure are Middle East oil supplies?
Stan Goff’s Energy War now online
Re-visiting “Petrodollar Warfare”
Iran worries and oil prices – Oct 26
Strike on Iran would roil oil markets
Iran – tension and pressure up again
Oil rises to record over $92 after U.S. says Iran backs terror
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Canada – Oct 26
Brave B.C. talks true carbon tax
Second inconvenient truth: greenhouse gases must be taxed
Alberta royalty grab stuns oil industry
Is Alberta out of step with the world? (no)
Rabaska: une étude démolit l’argument écologique (problems of energy substitution in a free market)
Beyond the age of petroleum
This past May, in an unheralded and almost unnoticed move, the Energy Department signaled a fundamental, near epochal shift in US and indeed world history: we are nearing the end of the Petroleum Age and have entered the Age of Insufficiency.
Peak oil and oil prices – Oct 25
Platts on ASPO-USA conference
Blogorithm – the quality of PO analyses
Bloomberg quotes ASPO, Energy Watch Group
Oil rises on falling U.S. stockpiles, new Iran sanctions
Oil hits record above $90 on OPEC report
Shell chief blames speculators for oil price
Where is Alberta? Why should you care?
Can it really be true that the Canadian petroleum industry is almost in crisis with oil at $90 per barrel? Americans in particular should understand the critical economic issues now facing Canada’s petroleum industry.
Peak oil – Oct 24
Skrewbowski interview: 1200 days to peak oil
Case Western study: oil experts agree on 2010 peak oil
Chevron CTO says peak oil won’t be a disaster
Posters of peak oil future now online from Dynamic Cities
Report: ‘World at peak oil output’
Peak oil or peak emissions?
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