Oil – Nov 30
Firms crimping oil supplies
The history of oil propaganda
No public disclosure of Kuwait oil reserves
Iraq’s oil industry in grip of despair
Alberta must invest in oil sands: board
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Energy & sustainability – Nov 29
NYT on EROEI and the Limits of Growth
What is energy worth?
Global warming & energy policy on collision course
Clueless in America: feeding the tape worms of desire
The peak oil crisis: the view from Capitol Hill
While up on Capitol Hill discussing the prospects for the peak oil message in the new Congress, I was brought up short by a question from a hill staffer. “Can’t you guys sharpen the time frame when oil production is going to peak?”
Peak Oil at West Point
Two colonels and a four star general presented the poster Army Energy Strategy for the End of Cheap Oil at the 25th Army Science Conference, Orlando, Florida. Sohbet Karbuz gives us the lowdown.
Countering peak oil skeptics: a proposal
If we want more people to understand peak oil, we need a list of clear, understandable and approachable counter-arguments with data. This really needs a Wiki page.
Latin America – Nov 28
Correa ‘wins Ecuador’s election’
Venezuela’s oil-based economy
Mexico: An energy quagmire awaits president-elect
Transition Culture Interview with Richard Heinberg – Part Two… Powerdown and Transition Towns
Richard Heinberg on towns and cities preparing for peak oil, taking the message outside of ‘green’ circles, permaculture, and the oil depletion protocol.
Resource Forecasting for the Geologically Challenged
Crude oil resource estimates tend to diverge to widely different values as the production curve gets close to peaking.
Peak oil -Nov 27
Peak oil – the South will rise again
Oil, food, the US $ and the “global” drought
Kunstler: The storm perfected
Pickens predicts record 2007 oil price
Examining CERA’s powers of prediction
Energy Mercantilism on the March
New Energy Mercantilism is the set of geopolitical phenomena emerging as nations realize that, in the future, there will not be enough energy to go around to sustain projected demand.
Caspian oil – Nov 27
Jerome a Paris: A primer on Caspian Oil
Caspian oil field to produce 25% more
Caspian Sea oil producers discuss establishing organization
Disneyland by the Caspian Sea
Venezuelan Oil Stats War
Petroleos de Venezuela SA says the IEA is publishing erroneous Venezuela oil production figures. Sohbet Karbuz, former head of non-OECD energy statistics at the IEA takes a look at the numbers.
