Peak Oil is You
Donate Bitcoins ;-) or Paypal :-)
Page added on September 12, 2012
August Oil Supply Numbers
The IEA and OPEC have released their numbers for oil supply in August (well “total liquid fuels” anyway). The above shows all available data from the three main public agencies supplying estimates of this. Basically nothing exciting at all happened: oil supply continues to look completely flat throughout 2012. Prices rebounded a bit though.
In a (probably lame) effort to break the tedium I am bringing back this graph of total production versus price (in this case Brent spot prices):
And it is slightly interesting, no? We seem to get into these periods in which supply is somewhat constrained and we have a very flat response of production to price. A few years later the same thing happens again but in the mean time a little more liquid fuel capacity has been squeezed from the planet and now the curve has moved up a bit. In 2012 it’s a little higher again than it was in 2010-2011 (around the time of the Arab Spring/Libya related price movements). Still, prices remain very high – no sign of going back to the pre 2004 prices any time soon (absent another major financial crisis, at any rate).
One Comment on "August Oil Supply Numbers"
BillT on Wed, 12th Sep 2012 11:45 pm
Why would the price of something drop when it is limited in quantity and necessary to life on this planet? Or at least life as we want to live it. We can never go back to pre 2004 prices. It would mean producing oil at a huge loss. NOT going to happen in today’s world or any other where ‘for profit’ capitalism rules. Better it stays in the ground.