The Peak Oil Bandwagon – Museletter 146
Richard Heinberg on peak oil’s rising recognition in the public sphere, Saudi Arabian reserves, the Shell/Royal Dutch shock, the petroleum plateau, the war on Iraq, 9/11 complicity, and U.S. party politics.
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Paris Peak Oil Conference Reveals Deepening Crisis (excerpt)
Research presented on May 26th and 27th at the French Institute for Petroleum (IFP) by a wide variety of experts from varying and often competitive perspectives disclosed that, in the year since the first conference of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil (ASPO) supply, constraints have worsened and the realities of energy depletion are becoming more apparent.
North Sea: Oil reserves ‘may stay untapped’
An independent oil company says that more than ten billion barrels of North Sea oil could remain untapped.
Indonesian Oil News Round Up
Indonesia is a net oil importer, and as such, should leave OPEC, says its former energy minister. Meanwhile, the high oil prices are have a damaging effect on the nation’s economy.
U.S. energy official praises Russia’s oil increase
The U.S. energy secretary, Spencer Abraham, praised on Friday Russia’s plans to increase oil exports to America and highlighted natural gas as the next long-term U.S.- Russia joint energy project.
This world is running on empty
The late M. King Hubbert was a visionary in the world of oil and, accordingly, he was either revered or reviled. Then he was forgotten. Now, in a time of oil shortage, some economists are taking a furtive look as his work.
OPEC Meeting May Increase Quotas for Oil
Scrambling to control high oil prices, the Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries will meet this weekend in Beirut before its official conference there next week and may pursue a plan to raise quotas sharply or do away with them entirely, an OPEC spokesman said yesterday.
PetroChina makes major oil discovery
PetroChina, China’s largest oil producer, has made the nation’s biggest oil discovery in a decade, bolstering its reserves by at least a third at a time when oil prices are at a record and the country’s demand is soaring, the company said Thursday.
Nazarbayev Considers Oil Pipeline to Persian Gulf Via Iran
Kazakhstan would like to construct a pipeline through Iran to the Persian Gulf as the main outlet for its natural resources, the country’s president said.
Shell Reduces Earnings by $203 Million
Royal Dutch/Shell Group of Cos. reduced its 2003 earnings by $203 million Friday, in an annual report delayed by two months due to the scandal arising from the company’s downgrading of its oil and gas reserves.
If Oil Supplies Were Disrupted, Then …
With demand high, supplies squeezed, prices climbing and refineries already running flat out, what if something really went wrong? Something like a terror attack on crucial oil installations in Saudi Arabia or in the United States, or something less sinister but just as disruptive, like a fire or accident at a major refinery or port or a flare-up of civil or labor turmoil in Nigeria or Venezuela?
More Oil Co Reserves Shocks Unless Rules Tighten -Banker
The oil industry faces more reserves downgrade shocks unless disclosure regulations are radically overhauled, said Matthew Simmons, chief executive and chairman of investment bank Simmons & Co.
