Peak oil (2) - May 27

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Staff, Energy Bulletin. Oil Reserves: Where Ghawar goes, the rest of OPEC follows
Oil price “head fake”?
CSM: Has Russian oil output peaked?


Prices & supplies - May 27

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Staff, Energy Bulletin. Japan blames speculators for oil hike
Saudi Aramco to spend $129 billion from 2009 to 2014
Asking Opec to solve the oil crisis misses the burning point
IEA says optimistic to think oil price will fall much


Mechanics, police say gas theft changing with times

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Mechanics, police say gas theft changing with times http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080527/ap_on_bi_ge/punctured_gas_tanks By JEFF KAROUB, AP Business Writer2


Re: Unnatural disasters

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David I leave it to experts in that field to comment on that particular issue. I have read that drilling for a hot dry rock geothermal project was stopped in


DrumBeat: May 27, 2008

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Monbiot: We have gone mad, Your Majesty, and only you can cure our affliction
King Abdullah of Saudi Arabia, Your Majesty,
In common with the leaders of most western nations, our prime minister is urging you to increase your production of oil. I am writing to ask you to ignore him. Like the other leaders he is […]


Report on First General Assembly of ASPO Switzerland, May 24th 2008, University of Basel

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[editor’s comment: this conference report by Professor Cellier from ETH Zurich provides some high level insight to European thinking on and attitudes towards the peak oil problem. It’s all in English below the fold.]
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ASPO Switzerland was founded 1.5 years ago by Daniele Ganser, a young professor of contemporary history at the University of Basel. […]


One big sigh… (Sarkozy on lowering gas taxes)

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Sarkozy: “La demande en produits pétroliers est de plus en plus forte et l’offre n’augmente pas ou très peu”
Sarkozy: “Demand for oil is stronger and stronger and supply is increasing very little, if at all”
When I heard him say this on the radio this morning, and continue by adding that we had to be aware […]


Oil Reserves: Where Ghawar goes, the rest of OPEC follows

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In May 2007, the work of Stuart Staniford and Euan Mearns culminated in a new and unprecedented assessment of oil reserves in Ghawar, the world’s largest oil field. This article (also written in May 2007 and well overdue for TOD posting) combines their assessment with additional information sources, to produce a revised estimate of reserves […]


How Will Local Governments Respond to Large Increases in Energy Bills?

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This is a guest post by Debbie Cook, Mayor of Huntington Beach, CA, and candidate for California’s 46th Congressional District. Debbie has been a peak oil activist for many years; in this post Mayor Cook provides some interesting energy and peak oil-related things to think about from a local government perspective.
Robert Rapier posed an […]


Oil Reserves: Where Ghawar goes, the rest of OPEC follows

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In May 2007, the work of Stuart Staniford and Euan Mearns culminated in a new and unprecedented assessment of oil reserves in Ghawar, the world’s largest oil field. This article (also written in May 2007 and well overdue for TOD posting) combines their assessment with additional information sources, to produce a revised estimate of reserves […]


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