Peak oil – Oct 3
David Strahan: Oil execs warming to peak oil
Oil crunch: the other monster under our bed
Randy Udall stepping down as CORE director
Peak oil 2005? 2007? 2010? 2012? Who the heck cares?
Film reviews:
Crude awakening
ODAC news
Oil
Burma – Oct 3
Burma: It’s the oil and gas, stupid
Amy Goodman: Chevron’s pipeline is the Burmese regime’s lifeline
The hardship that sparked Burma’s unrest
Costly fuel is never far from a match
Oil versus monks
Global hypocrisy on Burma
United States – Oct 3
Change in oil dollar denomination unlikely – oil companies
Air Force energy initiatives focus on fuel
DOW chairman: Strength needs energy
3-vol report on strategic unconventional fuels
Whatever happened to sharing the pie of prosperity?
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
Impact of population-wide weight loss observed
Cardiovascular disease and diabetes mortality reductions found after population-wide weight loss during 1989-2000 Cuban economic crisis. [Since Cuba is an example of what peak oil might look like, this study provides hints at the effects of peak oil on public health.]
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.
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
