Saudi extra barrels wrong kind of crude
The world’s oil refiners are unimpressed by Saudi Arabia’s boost to production capacity that would only swell supplies of sour, high-sulfur crude while they hanker for sweet oil.
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Oil shortage or surplus? It depends on type of crude
OPEC producers insist there is no shortage of oil despite record prices and although plenty of heavy crude is available, refineries are thirsty for light sweet crude which is in shorter supply, analysts say.
Philippines cites urgency to cut dependency on foreign oil
The Philippine presidential palace Wednesday said it is imperative to cut the Philippine dependency on oil to lessen impacts of oil price hikes on citizen’s lives.
The Price of Oil and Economic Growth
It may have come as a surprise to many (particularly market analysts) that the price of oil didn’t just magically stop at US$40 a barrel. As we push beyond the $50 per barrel barrier the G-7 finance leaders seem to have given up demanding the impossible – that OPEC deliver oil at $30 a barrel or less.
Q&A: Ali Samsam Bakhtiari
The Peak Oil message board asks questions of Dr. Ali Samsam Bakhtiari, one of the few experts from an OPEC country to speak out on Peak Oil. Dr. Bakkhtiari is Senior Expert attached to the Director’s office in the Corporate Planning Directorate of the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC).
The Sage of the End of Oil
David Goodstein, the Caltech professor of physics and applied physics, who remembered all too well the upheaval caused by short-term oil crises in 1973 and 1979, immediately began to wonder how an ill-prepared world would cope with an irreversible fuel shortage in the near future. The self-evident answer: Not very well.
The End of the Age of Oil
Adaptation of a talk by Caltech vice provost and professor of physics and applied physics David Goodstein, author of Out of Gas: The End of the Age of Oil (W. W. Norton) // Sidebars on global warming and on Goodstein are included.
Saudi oil and Chinese motorists
TEN years ago China was a net oil exporter. Today it is the world’s third largest oil importer, behind the USA and Japan, and the second largest oil consumer. Ten years ago China produced around 250,000 cars per year. Last year the country churned out more than three million. Committed factory expansions and developments will take capacity to five million cars next year.
Oil price hits $US50 a barrel
Crude oil futures hit $US50 in electronic after-hours trade in New York, setting a new record as supply worries intensified.
High noon for oil and gas, twilight for suburbia?
‘It looks like 2007-2008 will be about the latest before world oil supplies get into trouble, and if Saudi Arabia gets into trouble before then, very likely we will move into decline before then.’
Chinese Premier Departs Without Energy Solution
Russia and China agreed to terms for Russia’s membership in the World Trade Organization during top-level talks in Moscow on Friday, but both sides left unanswered questions about whether Russia was ready to guarantee stable oil supplies and boost oil and gas deliveries in the future to its energy-hungry neighbor.
Oil Companies Zeroing In on Mauritania as New Sources Dwindle
Given the current supply climate, even a small nation can become important in helping provide new reserves of crude. Some of the world’s biggest oil companies have set their sights on Mauritania.
