Platts: OPEC Bumps Up Output to 28.79MM BOPD

The Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) crude oil production averaged 28.79 million barrels per day (b/d) in August, up 220,000 b/d from July, as Iraq and several other producers raised volumes from the previous month, a Platts survey of OPEC and oil industry officials and analysts showed September 8. Excluding Iraq, which does […]

Turkey tells Iraq, Syria: No water

Turkey says it cannot give drought-stricken Iraq and Syria any more water from the Euphrates and Tigris rivers, claiming it’s short of water itself as it forges ahead with a mammoth dam-building program. The thirsty downstream states, witnessing their farmland turning into dustbowls and their people migrating to overcrowded cities, say Turkey’s dams are the […]

Joseph Tainter – Human Resource Use: Timing and Implications for Sustainability

Few questions of history have been more enduring than how today Cultural complexity is deeply embedded in our contemporary self image. Colloquially it is known by the more common term

US Energy Use Drops In 2008

Americans used more solar, nuclear, biomass and wind energy in 2008 than they did in 2007, according to the most recent energy flow charts released by the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory. The nation used less coal and petroleum during the same time frame and only slightly increased its natural gas consumption. Geothermal energy use remained […]

Half of the fish consumed globally is now raised on farms, study finds

Aquaculture, once a fledgling industry, now accounts for 50 percent of the fish consumed globally, according to a new report by an international team of researchers. And while the industry is more efficient than ever, it is also putting a significant strain on marine resources by consuming large amounts of feed made from wild fish […]

Tornado Threat Increases as Gulf Hurricanes Get Larger

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China to Boost Oil Stockpiles, Expand Overseas Output

(Bloomberg) — China, the world Chinese oil companies have acquired assets in countries including Kazakhstan, Syria and Singapore since December as the world

IHS CERA: World Oil Demand Set to Resume Growth; Return to Pre-recession Levels

World oil demand is set to grow next year for the first time since 2007 and return to pre-recession levels by 2012, according to IHS Cambridge Energy Research Associates (IHS CERA) in its quarterly World Oil Watch report. The rebound would mark a turnaround from the largest drop in global oil demand since the oil […]

Interview with Bob Hirsch – The Stonewalling of Peak Oil

…There is, I think, ample evidence, and some people in DOE have gone so far as to say it specifically, that people in the hierarchy of DOE, under both administrations, understood that there was a problem and suppressed work in the area. Under President Bush, we were not only able to do the first study […]

North Korea: Starving in silence

With no machines and all the livestock eaten, quiet lingers in rural areas of nation where 8.7 million face hunger In a country where citizens are subjected to ceaseless propaganda telling them that they live in a socialist paradise, it’s the silence that tells the other side of the story. You can stand in the […]

Putin Blinking on Exports Signals Lower Oil for OPEC

(Bloomberg) — Russia is surpassing Saudi Arabia in oil exports for the first time since the Soviet Union Investors had expected Russian supplies to decline this year after Putin

Electricity demand sputters; bills may fall

Decline is a measure of recession’s damage to U.S. economy COLUMBUS, Ohio – Consumers and businesses may finally be seeing some relief from rising utility bills, thanks to the biggest decline in U.S. electricity demand in decades. Prices on wholesale markets are expected to decline for the rest of 2009, according to the Energy Information […]

Has the Time Finally Come For Diesel Hybrids?

The combination of electric motors and diesel engines has worked well in locomotives and heavy trucks for years, but carmakers haven’t been successful in getting beyond the concept car stage for light duty vehicles. Five years after I started writing about the potential for diesel hybrids, the passenger vehicle market is still relatively quiet — […]

The Future of Nuclear Energy: Facts and Fiction Part III

For more than 40 years, the Nuclear Energy Agency (NEA) of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the United Nations have published a bi-annual document with the title “Uranium Resources, Production and Demand.” This book, known as the IAEA/NEA 2007 Red Book, summarizes data about […]

Windmills Are Killing Our Birds

On Aug. 13, ExxonMobil pleaded guilty in federal court to killing 85 birds that had come into contact with crude oil or other pollutants in uncovered tanks or waste-water facilities on its properties. The birds were protected by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which dates back to 1918. The company agreed to pay $600,000 in […]

Key Issues For Wind Energy's Future

The prestigious journal Energy Policy has recently reported two studies that highlight some key issues for the future of wind energy in Spain. A team of engineers from the University of Zaragoza believes it is “technically viable and economically reasonable” for wind energy to account for 30% of Spain’s overall energy production. A report by […]

Uranium from Seawater on a large Scale

Dr Masao Tamada, of the Japan Atomic Energy Agency, has developed a fabric made primarily of irradiated polyethylene that is able to soak up the minute amounts of uranium – around 3.3 parts per billion – in the seawater. Dr Tamada hopes to secure funding to construct an underwater uranium farm covering nearly 400 square […]

China to Build More Nuclear Plants, Japan Steel Says

(Bloomberg) — Japan Steel Works Ltd., a maker of atomic reactor parts for Areva SA and Toshiba Corp., more than doubled its forecast for China China, the world

Pemex head replaced amid production slump

Mexican state-owned oil monopoly Pemex saw a change of its top executive amid slumping production and reserves. President Felipe Calderon made the move yesterday to replace Jesus Reyes Heroles with Juan Jose Suarez, a former banker and beer executive, according to a Reuters report. Calderon urged Suarez to

EnCana bomber probe chills B.C. community

It is early evening in Tomslake and the rural roads are eerily quiet. This corner of northeastern British Columbia is no longer the place to go for an idle drive, even on one of summer’s last beautiful days. As the tension ratchets up around the now 11-month search for the EnCana bomber, chances are a […]

Seas 'threaten 20m in Bangladesh'

Up to 20 million people in low-lying Bangladesh are at risk from rising sea levels in the coming decades, according to new research. Scientists predict that salty water could reach far inland, making it hard to cultivate staple foods like rice. The research comes as the government appeals for $5bn (In May, Cyclone Aila left […]

Climate change: no Eden, no apocalypse

Clinate change is everywhere. Not only is the physical climate changing, but the idea of climate change is now active across the full range of human endeavours. Climate change has moved from being a predominantly physical phenomenon to being a social one, in the process reshaping the way we think about ourselves, our societies and […]

Tiber Oilfield Spells Major Upside for Prices

Some pundits predicted that this surge of new supply would put downward pressure on oil prices, the huge reserves in the Gulf of Mexico seeming proof that global oil production can rise fast enough to meet long-term growth in demand. As impressive as the Tiber discovery is, the latter argument just doesn’t hold water; take […]

$220/bbl oil someday, but not just around the corner

Michael Lynch: Game is changing fast Jeff Rubin at CIBC World Markets in Canada predicts $200/bbl coming very soon. He correctly predicted the price of oil reaching $50 in 2005 and $100 in 2007. The year 1966 was the peak for discovery of new oil fields. Production declines by 4 million bbl/day/year because of depletion. […]

Debate about peak oil is misleading

Flying across the Gwahar oil field in Saudi Arabia is a startling reminder of just how vast and impressive the oil industry is. Wells are dotted everywhere, huge pipes run across the desert and towers belch fire as the excess gas is flamed off. Gwahar is the largest oil field in the world and seen […]

Opec

Remember July 2008, when crude oil reached an all-time high of $147.27 a barrel, lending credence to the principle of “peak oil”, the decade-old doctrine that holds that global crude production will crest sooner than expected and then begin a precipitous decline. Analysts predicted that prices will top $200 before the end of 2009. However, […]

Saudis Believe Energy Independence is Nonsense

But Why Must America Agree? Saudi Prince Turki al-Faisal, former ambassador to the United States, has a suggestion for America: drop this nonsense called energy independence. In a strongly-worded essay in Foreign Policy magazine, which coincides with the 150th anniversary of Edwin Drake We

China backs state firms on oil options losses

BEIJING (Reuters) – Beijing has publicly put its weight behind some state-owned firms struggling with oil derivatives losses, saying it will back them in any legal action against the foreign banks that sold the products. In a statement on Monday, the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission said that some state-owned enterprises had sent letters […]

Russian Oil Production Overtakes Saudi Arabia

Russia is extracting more oil than Saudi Arabia, making it the biggest producer of “black gold” in the world, figures show. The statistics, from the oil cartel Opec, reflect a trend that has seen the Russians periodically surpass the Saudis as the world’s biggest oil producers on and off since 2002. These latest figures are […]

Natural Gas Hits a Roadblock in New Energy Bill

HOUSTON For all its pronouncements that gas could be used to replace aging, inefficient coal-fired power plants

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