Oil, guns and money
What’s really behind the recent redeployment of U.S. military forces? Making sure no one messes with American access to global energy resources. An excerpt from “Oil: Anatomy of an Industry.”
Oil
Bush’s ruinous economic plans
There’s a growing consensus among experts that the most recent wave of oil price hikes is not mainly the result of market manipulation, refining bottlenecks, or the Iraq occupation but the harbinger of the long-predicted depletion of the world’s extractable oil reserves.
Options exhausted, oil firms turn to tar
North America’s crude oil resources have been so thoroughly explored and developed that experts believe that there is hardly any left to find, except perhaps in the deep waters of the Gulf of Mexico.
ASPO September Newsletter
The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas’s September newsletter is essential reading.
Simon Upton forecasts end of industrial era.
The former New Zealand minister for the environment and now chairman of the OECD roundtable for sustainable development wrote in 1997 of his knowledge of the impending global oil peak, but did he really understand the implications of what he was saying?
Mexican Oil Claims Doubted
Officials at Mexico’s state-owned oil monopoly said Monday that the company has detected massive new oil deposits in the Gulf of Mexico that could potentially double the country’s reserves, but industry analysts cautioned that the company’s findings are still unproven.
Putin And The Geopolitics Of Oil
The geopolitics of oil today suggest a backdrop looking less like a benign, happily globalised “one world economy” dominated by America Inc and its assorted “branch plants”, and more a massive, overextended military power fighting a dangerous, and ultimately losing, battle against an angry, resistant globe, of which Russia is but one more growing manifestation.
IFP develops three oil price scenarios for 2004-05
aced with lofty world crude oil prices, reflecting a perception of tight fundamentals and threats to supplies, Paris-based Institut Français du Pétrole recently examined how the situation might evolve over the next 18 months.
Truth and Lies about 9/11
Michael Ruppert, publisher of From The Wilderness addressed the prestigious Commonwealth Club of California about peak oil and it’s relationship to the events of 9/11.
Japan: Energy efficiency gains can’t prevent oil risks
Although soaring crude oil prices have cast a shadow over the world economy, many business leaders in Japan remain surprisingly optimistic. Is such optimism really justified?
Oil price double-edged sword for Africa
Nowhere is the dichotomy more apparent than in Nigeria, which has enjoyed a $2.5 billion boost in profits from crude but is likely to pour the bulk of it into its imports of refined oil.
Mexico’s Pemex reports huge new oil finds
Mexico’s Pemex has detected vast new oil deposits in the Gulf of Mexico that could double the country’s total reserves and boost its oil output to rival Saudi Arabia’s, the state oil monopoly said on Monday.
