Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
There has been some discussion in various Peak Oil circles suggesting that the amount of global petroleum available for export to other nations may have peaked late last year. But you’d never know that moment had passed from looking at EIA’s data.
As energy prices soar and violence convulses the Middle East, the peak-oil movement — an unlikely alliance of geologists, physicists, oil industry consultants and environmental activists — is winning converts. Peak-oil ideas are bubbling up from scientific journals and offbeat Web sites, much the way warnings of global warming did a decade ago. For the first time, the peaksters have begun to grab the attention of Washington and Wall Street. (excerpt)
Last week, Shell’s US President John Hofmeister came to Cleveland as part of a US tour to offer Shell’s perspectives on national energy security.
BP: Big problems for oil giant
Forward-looking thoughts from Shell
China to invest $5-billion in Venezuelan oil
Was the cause of the cataclysmic collapse of the Soviet Union really the result of communist inefficiency and U.S. president Ronald Reagan’s Cold War military build up? Or was there an oil crisis that shocked the Soviet system?
One of the most doomerish pieces about peak oil to run on mainstream television. Interviews with Andrew MacNamara (MP-Queensland) and environmentalist Jeremy Leggett, as well as two oilmen.
Video and transcript available.
Heinberg on the Oil Depletion Protocol
Kurt Vonnegut’s apocalypse
Oil-driven energy era coming to end?
Skrebowski: oil crisis by 2010
Saudi oilfield of the future – Khurais.
Iceland plans to be the first country to implement a hydrogen economy, taking advantage of its vast electric resources. However, sustainability is still wanting in this tiny, isolated island nation, despite its massive advantages over most countries. It cannot, at this time, free itself from the world oil economy.
Skrebowski: “Decoding the figures in the new IEA report is akin to decoding the Da Vinci Code. In my work I am not a pessimist, and I observe what oil companies do, not what they say.”
This talk will look at peak oil in the context of climate change, the conflagration of two huge problems, what we might think of as the Two Great Oversights of our times.
“The four Transition periods (T1, T2, T3, and T4) will roughly span the 2006-2020 era. …The major palpable difference between the four Ts is their respective gradient of oil output decline — very small for T1, perceptible for T2, remarkable in T3, and rather steep for T4. In fact, this gradation in decline is a genuine blessing for those having to cope and adapt.”
– Dr. A.M.S. Bakhtiari, Iranian oil expert
A joint interview with Matt Simmons and Jim Kunstler, conducted just after they had met for the first time in November last year. Remarkably – even though both men came from vastly different backgrounds – they had basically reached the same conclusions regarding Peak Oil.
