Oil on the slide
We have had plenty of warnings about the consequences of an early peak in global oil production, but no one in Westminster seems to be listening.
Oil
Russia – Oct 2
Russia’s geology in dire straits
Begins to feel the heat on inefficiency
To raise oil exports by 50,000 bpd in Q4
Forging energy dialog with China
Says it will invest more oil wealth in its economy
Energy industry – Oct 2
Recasting Big Oil’s battered image
Tough new rule may stop wells flaring in BC
Review: Stupid to the Last Drop (Alberta tar sands)
Export Land Model (ELM) goes mainstream
For years, Jeffrey J. Brown has been arguing that oil-exporting countries will be consuming more oil, leaving less oil to export. Now a mainstream economist has picked up the idea:
Jeff Rubin and the Export Land Model
Declining net oil exports- temporary decline or long term trend?
America’s top oil suppliers tightening taps on exports
OPEC’s growing call on itself
Once again, the NPC expects too much from enhanced oil recovery
In their recent 400+ page report, the National Petroleum Council (NPC) projects that enhanced oil recovery (EOR) will contribute an enormous increment of total global supply of petroleum liquids. By any reasonable analysis, NPC’s projection of EOR production rates is unachievable.
Peak Oil Review – October 1st, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective, featuring:
– Production and Prices
– The Falling Dollar
– Venezuela
– Energy Briefs
Peak oil – Oct 1
Economic impact of peak oil
Kunstler: Two clues for the clueless
How economy could survive oil at $100/barrel
Costly fuel is never far from a match (price rises = turmoil)
ASPO’S Steve Andrews: online PO lecture Tuesday
Buckee of Talisman “believes in peak oil theory”
College sophomore discovers peak oil
PO 10-20 years away, claims WEC
ODAC News
Peak oil – Sept 28
Private industry conference finds much less oil
The end of Las Vegas: why alternative energy sources won’t save us
Kunstler:
America’s new religion
Burma: fuel prices and turmoil
Burma protesters defy crackdown
Economic factors behind the Myanmar protests
Myanmar’s painful oil and gas price rise
Q&A: Life in Burma
ASPO 06 Have we reached the tipping point?
Report on the ASPO 06 Conference in Cork, Ireland. Speakers at the September conference indicate that we may have reached the psychological tipping point – when Peak Oil enters the general consciousness.
China – Sept 27
Beneath booming cities, China’s future is drying up
China’s crude oil imports climb 18.7% in August on year
Bund blackout sends powerful signal: save energy or face blackout
China warns of catastrophe from Three Gorges dam
Energy industries – Sept 27
Inspector finds broad failures in Interior Department’s oil program
Canada’s oil nationalism
Mountain-top removal coal mining
