Peak oil – Aug 12
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)
Oil
What happens to our food when the oil runs out?
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.
No more business as usual
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.”
CERA’s report is over-optimistic
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”.
Prudhoe Bay – Aug 10
But I thought oil prevented rust / British Petroleum’s ‘Smart Pig’: The Brilliantly Profitable Timing of the Alaska Oil Pipeline Shutdown /
Did BP Purposefully Allow its Alaska Pipeline? / An oil leak rattles a state and its workers / BP was told of pipeline worries in ’04
Peak oil – Aug 10
Oil supply can outpace future demand, CERA says / Daniel Yergin, the “Energy Pope,” deconstructed / Peak oil panic – phase 1 /
Is a wall of oil heading for the market? /
Saudi oil: far from twilight (Michael Lynch)
Other energy – Aug 9
How power-hungry cities drive projects like NYRI (electric grid) /
A power grid for the hydrogen economy / Energy experts working on oil-shale projects / Russian researchers say “hydrocarbons may take only decades to be formed”
Peak oil – Aug 9
New ASPO-Ireland Newsletter / Chicago Tribune: Oil’s twilight / Malaysia oil fears prompt Petronas to buy into Russian producer /
CERA: oil supply still plentiful
Prudhoe Bay – Aug 9
Oil prices fall as Alaskan oil replaced /
Prudhoe Bay raises questions about aging oil fields / For BP, a pair of repairs / With Alaskan oil crimped, Californians look for options /
Alaskans speak up /
Leak is latest of Alaska’s pipeline woes /
Prudhoe oil may still flow / That’s some smart pig in the pipeline / NY Times: Lessons From Prudhoe Bay
Prudhoe Bay – Aug 8
Alaska joins axis of evil (unreliable oil suppliers) /
Restart of Prudhoe Bay oil field may take months /
Variety of crudes seen filling gap left by Prudhoe Bay outage (problems for West Coast) /
Oil Drum: More thoughts on Prudhoe Bay
Anything but time
The U.S., and the West in general, has focused its attention on other people as the source of trouble in the oil markets, with countless hours devoted to worrying about whether or not the Iranians or the Saudis or the Venezuelans will cause trouble. And here we are, an utterly and shamelessly oil-dependent culture, waking up to the fact that rust in the pipelines of Prudhoe Bay has taken down 400,000 barrels of oil in one fell swoop.
Oil Surges Above $76 as BP Shuts Alaska Field, Largest in U.S.
Crude oil surged above $76 a barrel, the biggest gain in two weeks, after BP Plc said it will shut Alaska’s Prudhoe Bay field, where 8 percent of U.S. oil is produced.
