Gulf Coast Cities Draw Up New Blueprints

PASS CHRISTIAN, Miss. – Hurricane Katrina erased much of the Mississippi Gulf Coast’s past, but the deadly storm also created a blank canvas and a historic opportunity for reinventing cities like this once-quaint beach community. Two years after Katrina claimed more than 200 lives in Mississippi and left behind billions of dollars in damage, teams […]

Real world oil demand

Background: Compared to July 2006, when we had similar prices, we have one massive and little remarked difference today: there is nothing like the geopolitical risk we had in July 2006 at the height of Israel Under several scenario

As China Roars, Pollution Reaches Deadly Extremes

BEIJING, Aug. 25 Public health is reeling. Pollution has made cancer China

The Oil Drum: How Walkable is Your Neighborhood? What’s Your WalkScore?

Typically, when people think about how sustainable a neighborhood is, they probably think of neighborhoods with lots of organic stores, solar paneled roofs, small hybrid cars and a strong recycling/composting culture. And all of those ideas have their place, but I would argue that the most important is how walkable/bikable a neighborhood is. From Streetsblog, […]

Oil aplenty, and right in our own backyard

AT A CERTAIN point, we need to face facts about the energy crisis in America: One: There is no energy crisis in America. We pay so much for gas today largely because a small number of legislators prevent us from using our own Heaven-sent natural resources, in Alaska and off our shores. The energy sources […]

Goodbye beautiful Britain

Enjoy the countryside while you can. In the near future there will be no place for sentiment, no eye for beauty and no room for cows and sheep. Don’t blame the farmers: the culprits are population growth, global warming and the energy gap The landscape of the future will be recognisable only to geologists. The […]

Myanmar official defends fuel price hikes that sparked protests

MANILA, Philippines: A recent increase in fuel prices that sparked a series of rare protests in Myanmar was triggered by spiraling global oil prices and was not a political move, a diplomat from the impoverished Southeast Asian nation said Sunday. Myanmar could no longer afford to subsidize fuel so heavily because of the steep increases […]

After oil supplies dry up, what’s Plan B?

Extreme scarcity could be disastrous for U.S. economy When Hurricane Katrina struck two years ago, Americans learned just how ill-equipped the government is to respond effectively to natural disasters. But if you think the government’s response to Katrina was inept, brace yourself for peak oil. Global oil production will hit its peak in the next […]

Bangladesh: Gas for Power Generation

One leading Bangladesh daily has published a report underlining the anticipated gas supply deficit to meet the emerging crisis for fueling the planned power plants. The report stated that the Government is contemplating setting up of a dozen power plants of 3570 MW capacity in the next 3-5 Years to mitigate the present huge deficit […]

The dangers of the race for energy

Oil and gas aren’t our future but the way we use them will certainly play a major role in determining what our future would be like. Our over dependence on oil and gas as fuels could ultimately play a catastrophic part in decline of the peace around the world. Recent studies show that there would […]

Denmark: City motors to operate on rapeseed oil

The city of Odense will fuel its lorries, city vehicles and public transport with rapeseed oil as part of an expansive project Bus drivers, firefighters and other Odense employees can operate their vehicles with a clean, green conscience when the Funen city begins its new rapeseed oil project in the coming months, reported free daily […]

Yemen govt oil production drops 42%

The Yemeni government’s share of oil output declined by 42 % in the first half of this year, posing a challenge to the country’s economic growth, a senior official said on Saturday. The government’s share of total oil production fell to 20 million barrels in the six months to June 30 from 34.5 million barrels […]

ASEAN may need closer look at nuclear energy plans

The Association of Southeast Asian Nations ended this week’s energy security dialogue in Singapore facing some stark realities: they need to set aside years of lofty rhetoric and act to cushion the economic blow of high oil prices, and they will have to look hard at introducing nuclear energy to the region. Beyond the handshakes, […]

The end of oil is not a possibility but a certainty

Regardless of how long you’ve been alive, whether you’re 16 or 60, it’s never been a problem to get gasoline. The ability to fill our gas tanks has often felt as guaranteed to Americans as free speech and free press. However, the privilege of gas may become a thing of the past quicker than we […]

Venezuela’s new jet set take off on back of oil-fuelled boom

[S]urging oil wealth and the restrictions of a dollar-pegged, overvalued currency are driving unprecedented numbers of Venezuelans to travel overseas on holiday, with the number of international flights jumping 45 per cent last month over the previous year. “It’s never been like this – it’s extraordinary,” says Maria Falvay, a sales executive for Pegasus Travel […]

Testing reveals fewer expected miles per gallon for 2008 cars and trucks

As the new 2008 cars and trucks roll into showrooms, there’s a new sticker shock. Federal fuel-mileage ratings dropped an average of 15 percent for the new vehicles compared with 2007 models. The familiar economy figures on the window stickers now show fewer expected miles per gallon for even the most gas-stingy cars. The Mini […]

Niger Delta Crisis: Cultural Solidarity vs. Corporate Interests

Royal Dutch Shell first tapped its commercial oil well in the Niger Delta in 1956. A half century down the road…. the horrors of Western corporate interests are still taking their toll. On August 13, 2007, senior oil workers threatened to vacate the Delta region if the violence persists. As a result, militants have flooded […]

Lebanon on brink of blackout due to lack of fuel

BEIRUT, Aug 25 (KUNA) — Lebanon is on the verge of a blackout within three to four days due to the lack of fuel in most of the power stations here, said the media Saturday. As-Safir newspaper stated that Lebanon electricity authorities announced that several fuel factories had stopped working for financial and security reasons. […]

Saudi oil forces get US training

DUBAI: US defense giant Lockheed Martin is training thousands of recruits for a special force designed to protect Saudi Arabia’s oil facilities from attack, a specialist economic newsletter said yesterday. Saudi authorities have recruited around 5,000 members of the Facilities Security Force and plan to raise the number to 8,000-10,000 over the next two years […]

The Sacking of the Iranian Minister of Oil

It is difficult to explain what is happening in Iran in terms of its domestic politics, particularly when it comes to the oil sector. How can Iranian officials explain to their people that, with Iran currently the second largest country in OPEC, the country has to ration its gasoline because it is suffering from a […]

Middle East: Regional oil revenues to remain strong

The head of the Middle East’s premier international energy futures and commodities exchange is forecasting that oil revenues in the region will remain strong for the immediate future. Dubai Mercantile Exchange (DME) chief executive officer Gary King will give an analysis of the regional energy outlook when he addresses a British Business Group event in […]

To eat . . . . or to drive?

Farmers all over the world are finding a sudden boom in demand for their crops In Munich, beer at this year

Oilsands face pipeline space shortage

Energy; Oil bubble expected to swell; Frantic work to bolster networks, build new ones; CALGARY – A new problem is bubbling in Canada’s growing oilsands industry: too much oil and not enough pipeline space to move it. Production from the deposits is growing so much, so fast, producers and pipeline companies are looking for ways […]

Energy shortages punish Argentine July industrial production

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BP

To rebuild its environmental image in America, BP has refused to take up the increased pollution limits it has been offered in order to upgrade a refinery near Chicago. But unless there are unexpected technological breakthroughs, the $3.8bn plan will be scrapped, and a US refining capacity shortage will grow more acute. Environment-friendly and accountant-friendly […]

The 50% MPG Gain That Detroit Won’t Touch

DELRAY BEACH, Fla. Gerald Rowley keeps his dreams in his garage. There, on a quiet street in this southeast Florida town, he stores an aging Mazda 626 sedan, cream white with a worn interior, unremarkable in nearly all respects with the exception of a precisely machined, one-gallon steel box in the trunk connected to fuel […]

Myanmar Detains at Least 63 Activists

YANGON, Myanmar (AP) – Myanmar’s military junta has detained at least 63 activists who protested massive fuel-price hikes, state media reported Saturday as the government pursued its clampdown on the increasingly daring demonstrations. Thirteen people arrested Tuesday were from the pro-democracy 88 Generation Students group and were “being interrogated” for allegedly undermining the government, colluding […]

Preparing Australian Agriculture for Rising Energy Costs and Water Insecurity

Conventional agriculture has evolved to the assumption that oil and gas will always be cheap. Large amounts of energy are used in food production making agriculture the third largest energy consuming sector globally. Most people would be aware of the diesel fuel requirement to power the machinery used in crop production. What they would not […]

War Without End – Part V: Inexorable Forces

…Even if it wanted to, the U.S. would now find it exceedingly difficult to disentangle itself from the Middle-East. That die was really thrown back in the ’70s, when the U.S., faced with the domestic Hubbert’s Oil Peak, chose not to initiate a program of exploring alternative energy sources, or follow through on strict fuel […]

Russia May Create New Oil Giant

Russia is mulling the creation of a new state-owned oil super-major based on holding company Rosneftegas, which already has 75% of oil company Rosneft and 10.74% of Russian gas monopoly Gazprom, according to a report yesterday. The report said other assets would be bundled into Rosneftegas, including privately owned Surgutneftegas and state-owned Zarubezhneft, and the […]

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