Analyst Says Oil Supply Problems Could Loom
The world’s oil supply is headed toward a crisis state that could flare as early as next year, fueled by steaming demand and declining production, a longtime sector investor and analyst said on Wednesday.
The world’s oil supply is headed toward a crisis state that could flare as early as next year, fueled by steaming demand and declining production, a longtime sector investor and analyst said on Wednesday.
Saudi Arabia is looking for new friends and finding them – in Asia. The oil-rich kingdom feels spurned and disliked by its traditional close allies in the West; ties have never been quite as warm since Sept. 11, 2001.
Analysts, economists and industry spokespersons seem very reluctant to talk about depletion or production decline. Chris Skrebowski of ODAC has analyzed the 2004 BP Statistical review of World Energy and has noted that there were 32 countries that were able to increase production in 2003, vs. 18 countries which have been in decline for 3 years or more.
Once again, neither Democrats nor Republicans honestly addressed three of the major issues that threaten the very survival of our way of life.
A controversial plan to allow oil drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is likely to move forward now that there will be enough votes in the Senate to push the measure ahead.
A vital $3bn (£1.6bn) pipeline designed by BP to help meet Britain’s oil needs well into the next decade has been riddled with corrosion, it emerged yesterday.
Unless demand plummets, world oil supplies are nearly certain to remain tight through the rest of this decade, according to a study by the Oil Depletion Analysis Centre in London.
My book tells a story of oil from its birth hundreds of millions of years ago through to its maturation into deep underground, as well as the modern tale of crudes abrupt exhumation, the battle to control its riches and its effect on the environment out of which it came
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World oil supplies are all but certain to remain tight through the rest of this decade, unless
there is a precipitous drop in demand, according to the results of a study by the London-based
Oil Depletion Analysis Centre (ODAC).
It will not come as news to anyone that the US dominates the world economically and militarily. But the exact mechanisms by which American hegemony has been established and maintained are perhaps less well understood than they might be. One tool used to great effect has been the dollar, but its efficacy has recently been under threat since Europe introduced the euro.
The row over the intrusion into Japanese waters of one of China’s nuclear submarines is the latest in a long series of awkward moments in the fraught relationship between Asia’s two most powerful nations.