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US grapples with ‘the age of energy insecurity’ /
Bodman asks Natl Petroleum Council:
Can oil production satisfy rising demand? /
Achieving energy freedom for Washington state/
Move past era of oil, experts say /
Speculation surrounds oil peak /
“Real Oil Crisis” on Australian television /
Andrew McNamara talks about peak oil /
Happy (belated) Peak Oil Day!
CafePress: The ‘End of Suburbia’ of radio? / L.A. transportation conference (Dec.1) seeks to cut oil use / Milk and Oil / Tar sands, Suncor and peak oil / Prepare today for future Thanksgivings / Deffeyes at CalTech Dec. 1
Report exposes the extortionate contracts multinational oil companies are extracting from Iraq’s ‘government’ – with UK & US help.
New monthly oil data intended to ease oil price volatility with better transparency from countries such as China and Saudi Arabia are to be released beginning Saturday.
Organizers of the recent world oil conference in Denver are preparing to take their planned annual event on the road to help spread the word about the coming peak and irreversible decline in world oil production.
A peak oil bill has been filed in the U.S. House of Representatives with the support of the newly formed Peak Oil Caucus.
In the decades ahead, we do not know precisely when, we shall reach a point, a plateau or peak, beyond which we shall be unable further to increase production of conventional oil worldwide. We need to understand that problem now and to begin to prepare for that transition.
US senators demand oil execs re-testify, under oath /
Toiling in a Dickensian hell – the miners who fuel China /
State of the American republic /
Supply fears amid NG price surge in UK /
Are we there yet? Prospect of $100 oil /
Syriana – movie on global oil /
Shell’s strategy to fuel the future /
Understanding the oil patch /
Syria and the oil shortage
Synthesizing the Power Points on PO /
Full throttle decline rates? /
Alaska seminar on declining oil /
Robert Hirsch: “Peak oil bell curve has a sharp crest, and you can’t see it coming” /
World at tipping point /
“Real oil crisis” on Australian TV Nov 24
Energy Bulletin asked Indian based Peak Oil activist Robin Abraham to report on his activities in the world’s second most populous country. Robin discusses why gaushalas – organic agriculture promoting cow sheds with religious significance – might just be the conduit for wider Peak Oil awareness and local solutions.
Amsterdam – The world’s oil production will reach a peak between 2012 and 2017. After 2017, production will slowly start to decline. In the
coming years an annual production growth of no more than 1.5% is feasible, while demand is expected to grow on average 2.1% annually. Because of this, the oil price will stay on persistently high levels.
Kuwaiti oil production from the world’s second-largest field is “exhausted” and falling after almost six decades of pumping. [More on this story from an article which is now otherwise unavailable except to Bloomberg subscribers.]
