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So just who is this super-spike man, and what in the world was he thinking? Well, his name is Arjun Murti, and he’s a veteran oil analyst and a managing director at Goldman. Press-shy by nature anyway, the poor guy was so unsettled by the reaction to his report that he refused all interview requests—until, that is, I was able to persuade him to take my call.
A number of unpublished agreements purportedly signed between the governments of Ukraine and Turkmenistan for the purchase of natural gas have inflamed the conflict between Kyiv and Moscow over natural-gas deliveries from Turkmenistan.
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.
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.
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.
