Oil – July 7
Oil rigs leaving Gulf of Mexico / Oil companies reluctant to invest in Iraq / Fox-hailed deepwater well a modest gas find / Costs explode at Shell Canadian venture
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Peak oil – July 6
Opposition demands ‘true’ reserve figures in Kuwait /
Billionaires Soros and Rogers on peak oil /
Matthew Simmons talk at Cambridge Forum /
The End of Suburbia promo at last /
Robert Newman’s History of Oil
An Open Letter to Greg Palast
Richard Heinberg addresses negative comments by investigative journalist Greg Palast about Peak Oil and those who study it.
Why the Swedish oil commission fails to deliver route to oil independence
Last week, the commission on oil dependency, tasked with charting Sweden’s way out of dependency, issued its report. Disappointingly, the report fails to address the heart of the issue – dependency and management of risk for societal collapse – instead it chooses to concentrate on technical solutions for energy supply.
Peak oil – July 4
Urban location, housing debt and oil vulnerability in the Australian City / How to define ‘energy security’? / ASPO Newsletter for July / National Education Association alerted to peak oil
Peak Oil – July 3
Audio: Peak Oil and the Environment in Washington /
Kunstler and Darley: The Post-Carbon Society – An Overview /
U.S. Army War College: Preemptive Energy Security: An Aggressive Approach to Meeting America’s Requirements /
La Plata County: Methane production past its peak
Peak oil – June 30
‘The real enemy is not peak oil, it’s resource nationalism’ (Not) / Greenhouse gases, ‘peak oil’ ruled out of order on offshore drilling legislation / Kunstler interviews / Gore on peak oil and climate change
The peak oil crisis: Our Government Forecasts the Future
Last week the US Government released the International Energy Outlook 2006 (IEO).
Unfortunately, however, from a peak-oil-is-imminent perspective, one is forced to say that many of this report’s projections are so far from reality that the EIA must be talking about some other world.
Politics & economics – June 28
China’s crude oil import up 20.5 percent in May /
Iran ideological army takes on energy contracts /
Nigerian oil dispute flares into full-scale revolt /
GAO: Issues Related to Potential Reductions in Venezuelan Oil Production
Other energy – June 27
Natural Gas concerns continued /
Even OilCos still cannot deal with aftermath of Katrina /
Norway Crude-Oil Output Slides /
High cost of asphalt steamrolls plans /
Royal Society of Edinburgh Energy Report published /
Hanford nuclear waste plant cost rises to $11.55 billion
Politics & economics – June 27
US military sees oil nationalism spectre /
The US military oil consumption in Iraq and Afghanistan /
China’s Economy Forecast to Grow 10.3% in First Half /
Is Oil In a Price Bubble? /
Iraqi oil production back at 2.5 mln bbl/day /
Drilling on Wall Street
Peaksters on the Potomac
Last month, oil “peaksters” seemed to break out of their policy doldrums when they journeyed to the banks of the Potomac for what may have been their first mainstream conference in the nation’s capital.
