Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
A data-driven analysis of new oil projects outside of the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) reveals that production growth is now surpassing the dismal performance exhibited in 2005 and 2006… It’s important to keep our eye on the ball by examining how declines or delays affect overall non-OPEC production growth during these crucial years.
Jeffrey J. Brown on The Reality Report
The end of oil, the start of tasty food (Julian Darley)
The amazing power of King Hubbert (…?)
TOD: This week in petroleum
Canada/financial energy round-up
ODAC News
OPEC to lift oil output modestly
What’s behind OPEC’s production hike?
Oil execs: Beware the new world energy order
Oil giant agrees to fight greenhouse gases
Greenhouse gas is Big Oil boon
For oil companies, the good old (bad old) days are over
Big Oil talks up carbon capture, but does little
OPEC agrees to increase oil output
Oil prices continue to rise
Exxon CEO:
Fundamentals don’t justify $70 oil
Platts: OPEC output dips in August
Indonesia and OPEC
Saudi Arabia keeps Oct crude supply steady
A framework is needed for planning the mitigation of oil shortages created by world oil production reaching a maximum and going into decline. Some argue that normal market evolution will be adequate to avoid shortages. We assume that will not be the case.
Zac Goldsmith: ‘Peak oil informs everything’
Leftist discussion of Peak Everything
Atlantic: The world’s most essential oil field may be in decline
Matt Simmons series
TOD community update
ODAC News
Oil addiction is ugly (DIY video)
Get your green on in Energyville (game from Chevron)
Kunstler: The dis-information society
Conservatives have opportunity to introduce a green agenda
Turn off the TV and join the Tory green revolution
Kunstler gets a letter from an employee in the British oil industry
New nuclear row as green groups pull out
Rebels blow up pipelines in Mexico, disrupting service
Mexico: A nation-state dissolves? (Jeff Vail)
Tribes sabotage Kirkuk pipelines
China is a case study in which rising food prices and natural disasters influence biofuel production, especially ethanol, leading to new regulations for gasoline exports.
Renewable sources of energy cannot come anywhere near to replacing fossil fuels in sufficient quantity to keep running the current globalised, capitalist industrial economy, according to Ted Trainer’s new book.
Sometime in the next few months, some event is likely to set off a spike in gasoline prices. Be it a hurricane, terrorist attack, adverse geopolitical crisis or some credit crisis development, the realization will dawn that we are extremely short of gasoline and have little hope of remedying the situation over the short term.
