ASPO September Newsletter
The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas’s September newsletter is essential reading.
Oil
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.
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?
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.
Can We Live Without Oil?
The fall 2004 issue of YES! magazine is devoted to Peak Oil. About a dozen articles are available online. Subjects include biodiesel, hydrogen, transportation and conservation. Authors include Hunter Lovins, James Lovelock and David Orr.
NZ relies on flawed global oil production data
The New Zealand government depends on the IEA’s oil production projections. As concerns about global Peak Oil began surfacing in the mid to late 90’s the IEA has succeeded only in delivering a “business as usual” message but with seriously flawed “hidden variables”.
Get Ready for the Peak Experience
Thanks to the collusion of industry, financial and government interests, the coming decline in oil production is portrayed as so impossibly far off in the future that there is no sense talking about it – but talk we must.
Oil supply, demand set on a hair trigger
With no room for error, prices will be volatile. Buckle up. The country could be in for an oil-price roller-coaster ride three to five years long.
