Nigeria’s oil crisis
Nigeria’s oil industry – Africa’s largest and the fifth-biggest source of US oil imports – is concerned for its future after a yearlong spree of bloodletting that has killed more than 1 000 people in the Niger Delta.
Oil
Fears ease as Yukos keeps pumping
Beleaguered Russian giant Yukos can continue to produce and sell oil despite an earlier demand to stop output, according to Russian officials.
Use less or save more
The oil majors are quietly panicking because they cannot find sufficient new projects or fields big enough to make a material difference to companies of their size.
It’s the End of the World as We Know It
In a fascinating new documentary, The End of Suburbia – Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream, the central question is this: Does the suburban way of life have a future? The answer is a resounding no.
Puerto Rico: Energy Challenge
With the end of cheap oil on the horizon, Puerto Rico continues to move toward alternatives, but is it moving fast enough?
Simmons: The Implications of Saudi Arabian Oil Declining (transcript – part 1)
There is no other oil producer on earth that can even begin over time to replace a significant short fall in Saudi Arabia’s oil. So if in fact, Saudi Arabia is at their peak production, then so is the world.
Simmons: The Implications of Saudi Arabian Oil Declining (transcript – part 2)
Energy demand has become a runaway train. There’s no way we can stop that train until we hit a brick wall.
US: Foreign Oil Dependency: Stuck Between a Rock and Hard Place
The United States’ growing dependence on foreign oil is widely recognized as the nation’s Achilles heel, a disaster in the works. But sometimes it seems that every solution to that horrendous problem leads into a box canyon.
OIL: The World Over A Barrel
A three part Canadian documentary series deals in part with the oil peak. “Soon enough, the era of cheap oil will be over. If prices rise too steeply there could be a devastating effect on the world’s economy.”
Oil prices surge on fears of supply shortfall
Possible shutdown of Russian oil giant Yukos sparks rally.
The real reasons Bush went to war
WMD was the rationale for invading Iraq. But what was really driving the US were fears over oil and the future of the dollar
Gas and oil rivalry in the East China Sea
Current explorations of an offshore gas field in the East China Sea by both China and Japan have recently strained relations between the two powerful nations.
