Addicted to Oil: U.S. Oil Policy Simulation
Fascinating account of a simulation game that allows the user to try out various policy options to see the effect on oil consumption and oil imports.
Oil
Peak oil – Apr 27
Interactive depletion atlas
Matthew Simmons speaks to students
Jeff Vail: Efficiency policy, Jevon’s Paradox
Fuelling projects at a high price
Video review: It’s a Crude Awakening
Oil industry – Apr 27
Video interview with Shell Oil president
ExxonMobil doubles lobby expenditures
Daniel Yergin on energy’s challenges
Iraq – Apr 25
Iraqi oil: More plentiful than thought (and in a Sunni province)
Iraq: Big contracts for Big Oil
A warning over good news on Iraqi oil ‘wealth’
Peak oil – Apr 25
Wood Mackenzie sees non-OPEC oil output peaking by 2015
Five geopolitical feedback-loops in peak oil
Gazprom’s uncertainty of supply due to underinvestment (mention of peak)
Arctic dreams
As for as the relationship between the Arctic and peak oil: significant oil production from undeveloped Arctic resources of uncertain size is many years away.
Al Bartlett’s resources depletion protocol for a sustainable Australia
Professor Bartlett’s analysis of Australian energy futures should be truly shocking to governments and economists, and in fact anyone who likes growth. It demonstrates that there is no way to grow infinitely into the future.
Ali Samsam Bakhtiari and peak oil
Dr. Ali Samsam Bakhtiari is a retired “senior energy expert,” formerly employed by the National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC) of Tehran, Iran. During his long career, Bakhtiari held a number of important positions of immense trust and responsibility. I want to bring his important work to the attention of readers.
ODAC News – Apr 25
1a/ UK economy ‘skating on thin ice’ (BBC News, Mon 23 Apr)
1b/ UK economy is ‘skating on thin ice’, says report (The Independent, Mon 23 Apr)
2a/ Russia’s Energy Sector Requires Investment of $542 Bln by 2020 (FC Novosti, Mon 23 Apr)
2b/ LUKoil Ready to Begin Qurna Project in Iraq(FC Novosti, Wed 25 Apr)
Mini-review: Energy Crossroads, PO documentary
How do you get your older Midwest relatives to swallow the Red Pill and understand why you’re obsessed with peak oil? A DVD for when End of Suburbia just won’t do.
Peak Oil Review — April 23, 2007
An executive summary of weekly news from a peak oil perspective.
Peak oil – Apr 24
NY Times coverage of PO – “A very bad idea”
Global warming and the coming peaks in oil, gas and coal production
Oil depletion in English as a Second Language (ESL) format
Chris Vernon Responds to George Monbiot
A world without oil, in a game
