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“I think they’re [the Saudis] near capacity, and so we’ve just got to get a straight answer from the government as to what they think their excess capacity is,” Bush said, adding that he would not characterize the Saudi production as “flat-out” yet. (updated 21 April)
Congressman Roscoe Bartlett has discussed global peak oil in a one-half hour taped program, E&E TV.s .On Point,. that is now available via the
Internet in flash video.
The Mexican petroleum giant reports that deepwater deposits in the Gulf of Mexico may be half of what was initially predicted.
Congressman Roscoe Bartlett will discuss the challenge of global peak oil in a one-hour Special Order speech on Tuesday, April 19.
Iran’s ruling clerics are meticulously arranging energy sales and building partnerships with influential countries, including China and India, as a way to win stronger friendships around the world.
PetroChina Company Limited (PetroChina) recently executed a memorandum of understanding in Beijing with Enbridge, the second largest pipeline operator in Canada. Both sides will work together on a project of building new pipeline and transporting crude oil from Canada to inland China.
With crude-oil prices inching toward $60 a barrel earlier this month, renewed talk of tapping Colorado’s vast oil-shale resources wasn’t surprising. This time, federal lawmakers are wisely urging caution in possible shale development to avoid the dislocations of the frenetic oil-shale boom and bust of the early 1980s.
Crude crossroads: Azerbaijan is not only a major oil producer and port but also sits in a strategic and volatile place on the Caspian, bordered not only by its bitter enemy Armenia but also by Russia, Iran, and Georgia.
Often overlooked, rubber could as easily bring the economy to a halt as oil could.
For Global Public Media, Jason Bradford asks whether US FED Chairman Alan Greenspan now showing signs of oil stress, has been taking lessons from Iraq’s infamous former Information Minister, ‘Baghdad Bob’ – their rhetoric appears equally disconnected from reality.
A statement by ODAC Board member Chris Skrebowski which aims to clarify some common misapprehensions about the meaning and significance of oil depletion.
Dubbed “NOPEC”, a bill passed by the US Senate Judiciary Committee would allow legal action to be taken against cartels such as OPEC, said Senator Patrick Leahy, one of the bill’s co-sponsors.
