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Surging oil prices should be seen as a warning and not a cure for declining oil and gas exploration which threatened to leave Australia dangerously reliant on overseas supplies, the head of the nation’s peak oil and gas body warned yesterday.
When oil was found in 1996 in Equatorial Guinea, the former Spanish colony in West Africa was one of the poorest countries in the world. Today, this small and sparsely populated country of 465,000 inhabitants has an offshore production of 350,000 bpd, making it the third largest sub-Saharan producer of oil, behind Nigeria and Angola. According to the African Development Bank, a year after oil was found, gross domestic product went up 76 %.
Political reengineering in the muslim world– Clash of civilization by many names– The greater middle east initiative and the partnership for future success
Oil, besides being a whole lot of political trouble, is approaching its production peak. What to do?
Without cheap oil, the only safe option is to start dismantling our complex economies
The CIA are staging a subtle coup against Bush and Cheney over the Plame Case writes Michael C. Ruppert.
ASPO’s 42nd newsletter is a must-read.
Saudi Aramco could turn some valves and increase production rate by two million barrels per day. In doing so, they might cut short the life of their largest resource.
Bill McKibben discusses Paul Roberts’ book the End of Oil in the context of climate change.
Presentations by independent investigators at the international inquiry on 9/11 held in San Francisco in March.
“We simply do not yet have the economic solutions or technologies that would permit us to meet future energy demands without carbon emissions growth,” Exxon Mobil chairman Lee R. Raymond said.
The state of Alaska held preliminary talks with investment banking firms in New York City May 25 to explore options should the state decide to help finance a North Slope natural gas pipeline.
