Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
Making Santa Monica a sustainable city in the face of peak oil and global warming /
CERA study disputes peak-oil arguments /
The price of crude can only rise while supplies dwindle worldwide /
Oil, water, weather crises will hit cities /
Economist reports Saudi oil production can continue unabated
What created the modern petroleum industry was a confluence of circumstances, and certainly of events. Col. Drake’s innovation in driving a hole into the earth was just one of many things along a long chain of events.
If the proposal is passed, Finland would follow in the footsteps of Sweden – the first country in the world to establish guidelines for replacing oil as a main energy source.
IEA leaves 06 world oil demand outlook unchanged at 84.8M B/D / The life of an oil reservoir / Oil’s dirty laundry (state oil companies) / BP nearly halving diameter of Prudhoe Bay pipeline? / Revised plan fails to lift clouds over Prudhoe Bay or BP
POR caught up with Chris Skrebowski for a quick Q&A just as he was preparing to depart for the airport, bound for Australia. He had time to provide quick observations about OPEC’s production trends and CERA’s new report.
ASPO 5 – The two distinct paradigms within the peak oil movement /
Saudi oil production revisited /
Kuwait’s reserves queried again / Oil price spike to end, you can bet on it / Pipeline cowboys: rustling for oil
In the midst of the midsummer heat wave that scorched the eastern United States, the Senate voted 71-25 to allow oil and gas drilling in a section of the Gulf of Mexico now off-limits to such activity.
UK organisations that recognise peak oil / Designing the future (PO & systems engineering) / Ripe for revolution / The real price of oil / “400,000 barrels here, 400,000 barrels there. Pretty soon, you’re talking about a lot of oil.”
Perception management – CERA and IHS energy / Peak-oil theory warns tank’s almost empty (investing) / Scarcity, mother of invention / Scientific American: Energy’s future beyond carbon (special issue)
There are few more qualified people in the world who can discuss Peak Oil than Ali Samsam Bakhtiari, retired “senior energy expert” of National Iranian Oil Co. (NIOC. So when Bakhtiari talks, people ought to listen. He says: “We are entering an era in which we know nothing much, where we have a brand-new set of rules.”
The Soil Association is looking ahead and preparing for a post peak oil world as an organisational priority. Our aim is to create a new, localised food culture that will deliver long-term quality of life in place of the old dynamic of unrestrained globalisation and short-termist exploitation.
It is obvious that ASPO, the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas, is a problem for CERA, or maybe a business opportunity, as Daniel Yergin in the overview of the report announce a forthcoming report, “Myths and Legends Concerning Peak Oil”.
