Insight and inspiration in turbulent times.
The Philippines called on China on Saturday to “desist” from provocative actions in the disputed Spratly islands region after reports a Chinese company was exploring for oil and gas near the area.
Those of you who were driving in the US in 1972-73 will vouch for the rapid changes that occurred across the board due to the decline of US oil output.
Britain came within an ace of becoming a net oil importer for the first time in 13 years in May, helping the country’s trade deficit widen unexpectedly to £3.4 billion.
Latest US EIA data confirms Australian oil production dropping through the floor. Pity Prime Minister John Howard is too busy shovelling subsidies out to industry to consider responsible government.
Michael C. Lynch, the most vocal critic of Colin Campbell and other oil depletion ‘pessimists,’ tries to point out that within this debate we are dealing with a lot of assumptions and many unknowns.
When geologists speak of Hubbert’s Peak, they’re not talking mountaintops or hairdos. They’re referring to a time – maybe not so far off – when the world will run out of fertile new oilfields and new ways to recover oil, and petroleum supplies will begin an inevitable and maybe very fast slide.
On August 14, 2004, Venezuelan voters will decide on a referendum, which has the utmost world historic and strategic significance. What is at stake is nothing less than the future of the energy world, the relations between the US and Latin America (particularly Cuba), and the political and socio-economic fate of millions of Venezuela’s urban and rural poor.
When Richard Heinberg wrote The Party’s Over he expected that global oil production peak would most likely to fall within the window of 2006 to 2015. These days (18 months after the book was finished) he’s “more likely to say 2006 to 2010.” Here’s nine events which explain that.
Deep water covers 180 billion barrels of the world’s undiscovered oil and natural gas reserves, more than twice the amount yet found, Scottish energy consultants Wood Mackenzie said Wednesday.
The booklet addresses the topic of Peak Oil in a novel and refreshing way, as a commentary on an imaginary Public Inquiry.
When John Kerry is president, decades-old ties with Saudi Arabia could be in for an overhaul as he combats terrorism and reduces U.S. dependence on Mideast oil.
Iraq’s oil production is expected to remain constrained for the next one to two years by ongoing attacks against oil infrastructure, despite the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority’s (CPA) transfer of power to an interim Iraqi government, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said June 28.
