NEWSLETTER - ODAC NEWS
This page contains a list of ODAC's biweekly newsletter, ODAC News, from 2007. For older versions of the Newsletter (2006), select the ARCHIVE button below. The headings for each day are listed. To see details, click on the relevant date. Publication of ODAC News stoppped on 21 December 2007.
December 2007
Natural Gas
1a/ Daddy, will the lights be on at Christmas? (The Oil Drum: Europe [Euan Mearns], Thu 20 Dec)
1b/ LNG demand to outpace supply by 2 times until ’15 on plant delays (Gulf Times, Thu 20 Dec)
1c/ Part 1: How Long Will Siberia's Gas Last? The Last Major Field Goes On line (Der Spiegel, Tue 18 Dec)
1d/ Part 2: The Limits of Production (Der Spiegel, Tue 18 Dec)
1e/ Russia seals Caspian gas pipeline deal (Financial Times, Thu 20 Dec)
Economy - China / USA
2/ Why China Is Rising And The United States Is Declining (Earth Policy Institute, Dec14 2006 /Tue 18 Dec 2007)
Coal
3a/ Coal-to-liquid project may start earlier (China Daily, Mon 17 Dec)
3b/ COAL - The Roundup (The Oil Drum: Europe, July 2007)
Fuel for USA Air Force
4/ C-17 flies cross country on synthetic fuel (AirForce Times, Thu 20 Dec)
Food Stocks / Prices
5/ World food stocks dwindling rapidly, UN warns (IHT, Mon 17 Dec)
Economy - UK
6a/ Call to relax Basel banking rules (The Telegraph, Sat 15 Dec)
6b/ Q3 current account gap hits record high (Reuters, Thu 20 Dec)
6c/ Grim data undermine Brown's claims (The Times, Fri 21 Dec)
6d/ Debt fears push sterling to 20 month low (The Telegraph, Fri 21 Dec)
Economy – Europe / USA
7a/ Huge ECB cash injection dwarfs BoE auction (The Telegraph, Wed 19 Dec)
7b/ Fatwa against the dollar? (The Telegraph, Mon 17 Dec)
Daniel Yergin as peak oil activist
8/ Young Daniel Yergin as peak oil activist (book review) (Energy Bulletin, Thu 08 Nov)
Biofuels and Food Inflation
9/ Push for ethanol blamed for driving up food prices (International Herald Tribune [NY Times], Tue 18 Dec)
Car Sales - Russia
10/ Russian Car Market to Exceed 2.5mn This Year (FC Novosti, Thu 20 Dec)
The Limits To Growth Discussed in the FT
11/ Hostility to the notion of limits to growth (European Tribune, Thu 20 Dec)
Biofuels
1/ The Myth Of Biofuels (ODAC, Mon 17 Dec)
Natural Gas - Turkey
2/ Turkish gas use up 20% on 2006 to 27.72 Bcm (Platts, Thu 13 Dec)
Economy - UK
3a/ House price confidence at lowest since 1998 (The Telegraph, Thu 13 Dec)
3b/ House prices pumped by interest rate cuts (The Telegraph, Wed 12 Dec)
3c/ Sub-prime ruts and interest rate cuts (The Sunday Telegraph, Sun 16 Dec)
3d/ London house price fall of 6.8% in past month stokes economy fears (The Times, Mon 17 Dec)
New Projects – Saudi Arabia
4/ Saudi Arabia's Greater Khursaniyah Area (GKA) project delayed by 6 months (Energy intelligence, Thu 13 Dec)
Natural Gas And Electricity Prices - UK
5a/ Consumer bills set to soar as gas prices climb (Times Online, Fri 14 Dec)
5b/ Business users warned of fuel cost problems (Financial Times, Mon 17 Dec)
Peak Oil Articles In The Mainstream Media - UK
6a/ Plenty of oil left in the global tank (The Sunday Times, Sun 16 Dec)
6b/ Are commodities a bubble ready to burst? (The Sunday Telegraph, Sun 16 Dec)
Food Inflation
7a/ US Food Inflation Parallels 70s on Ethanol Boom (Planet Ark [Reuters], Mon 17 Dec)
7b/ World food price rises to hit consumers (Financial Times, Sun 16 Dec)
UK Oil and Gas Production Presentation
8/ UK Oil and Gas Production Forecasts: An Overview (ODAC, Mon 10 Dec)
Oilwatch Monthly - December 2007
9/ Oilwatch Monthly - December 2007 (The Oil Drum: Europe [Rembrandt Koppelaa], Sat 15 Dec)
IEA Oil Forecast
1/ IEA exec says oil supply crunch looms (Business Week, Tue 11 Dec)
Electricity Supplies - UK
2/ How coal is the future (The Sunday Times, Sun 14 Oct)
The New Energy Paradigm
3a/ Oil Price Rise Causes Global Shift in Wealth (Washington Post, Sat 10 Nov)
3b/ Without reform, Mexico's crude exports will collapse: ministry (Platts, Tue 11 Dec)
3c/ Saudi Industrial Drive Strains Oil-Export Role (Zawya [Wall Street Journal], Wed 12 Dec)
What is Progress?
4/ What is Progress? (Monbiot.com, Tue 04 Dec)
Biofuels
5/ Is biofuel industry boom going bust? (Arkansas Online, Sun 02 Dec)
Economy - UK
6a/ The Business Show [video] (The Telegraph, Tue 11 Dec)
6b/ British businesses set for more 'busts' in 2008 (The Telegraph, Tue 11 Dec)
6c/ Food prices rising at highest rate for 14 years (The Telegraph, Tue 11 Dec)
6d/ 1.5m 'will struggle to find affordable mortgage' (The Telegraph, Thu 06 Dec)
6e/ Housing market on the brink (The Telegraph, Mon 03 Dec)
China – Energy Growth and Inflation
7a/ China maintains thirst for power (Financial Times, Mon 10 Dec)
7b/ Cities told to keep food, oil reserves (China Daily, Wed 12 Nov)
Petrol Supplies / Car Growth – Italy, UK
8a/ Hauliers split over fuel depot protests plan (Financial Times, Tue 11 Dec)
8b/ More cars need extra roads, say experts (Financial Times, Wed 28 Nov)
8c/ Italian truck strike stops fuel, food supplies (Reuters, Tue 11 Dec)
8d/ Post Peak Italy (The Oil Drum: Europe [Ugo Bardi], Wed 12 Dec)
Economy - USA
9a/ Iranian oil no longer available for U.S. dollars (RIA Novosti, Tue 11 Dec)
9b/ Morgan Stanley issues full US recession alert (The Telegraph, Tue 11 Dec)
Vehicle Efficiency (Lack Of) - USA
10/ Caught Between a Growth Myth and a Price Doctrine (Washington Post, Sun 09 Dec)
Natural Gas - Europe
11/ The European Gas market (The Oil Drum: Europe [Euan Mearns], Tue Dec 11)
New Peak Oil Report
1/ A Failure of Leadership (ODAC [Global Witness], Fri 07 Dec)
IEA, Oil Demand / Supply
2/ IEA: oil demand has surpassed supply (The Oil Drum: Europe [Rembrandt Koppelaar], Thu 06 Dec)
LNG Supplies - Trinidad and Tobago
3/ Energy company preaches restraint on natural gas projects - Audit puts 12-year life on reserves (Jamaica Gleaner, Fri 07 Dec)
Natural Gas / Electricity Prices - UK
4a/ 'Ominous warning sign’ as British Gas raises tariffs (The Times, Wed 05 Dec)
4b/ Higher energy prices feared in new year (The Times, Fri 07 Dec)
Economy - UK
5a/ Warning of slump as Bank cuts rates to 5.5pc (The Telegraph, Fri 07 Dec)
5b/ Apocalypse now? (BBC News [Evamonics], Thu 06 Dec)
Economy - Other
6a/ Wall Street's sub-prime loss could soar as bond insurers face shortfall (The Times, Thu 06 Dec)
6b/ UBS grabs new investors after $10bn credit hit (The Telegraph, Mon 10 Dec)
6c/ Decoupling dies as half the globe hits crunch (The Telegraph, Mon 10 Dec)
6d/ Mortgage Meltdown (Sanders Research Associates Ltd / SF Gate, Mon 10 Dec)
Copper Theft - UK
7/ Rail police: cable crime is biggest threat after terror (The Times, Tue 04 Dec)
Rising Oil Consumption – Oil producing Countries
8/ Oil-rich nations tapping more of their own resources (International Herald Tribune [NY Times], Sun 09 Dec)
Economy – South America and Iran
9/ Seven South American countries forming their own development bank / Iranian currency issues (Le Monde, Mon 10 Dec)
Transport post-Peak Oil
10/ Transport and post-Peak Oil (ODAC, Mon 03 Dec)
Biofuels - UK
1/ Planned UK Biofuel Plant Seen Risky as Wheat Soars (Planet Ark (Reuters], Fri 30 Nov)
Natural Gas Prices - USA
2/ Record gas storage doesn't mean market can relax (Platts, Tue 20 Nov)
Natural Gas – Ukraine / Russia
3/ Crisis Looms as Ukraine Talks Price Hike (Energy Intelligence [International Oil Daily], Fri 30 Nov)
Food Prices
4a/ Soyabeans to stoke food price inflation (Financial Times, Thu 29 Nov)
4b/ U.S. food banks, in a squeeze, tighten belts (International Herald Tribune, Fri 30 Nov)
Economy - UK
5a/ The Business Show [video] (The Telegraph, Fri 30 Nov)
5b/ Is the roof falling in on the housing market? (The Independent, Fri 30 Nov)
Peak Oil in Australia
6/ The party's over and Liberals will soon be history (Sydney Morning Herald, Thu 29 Nov)
November 2007
Oil Prices / USA Oil Imports
1/ Oil price jumps $4 after pipeline blast (Financial Times, Thu 29 Nov)
Economics of Peak Oil
2/ Questioning Peak Oil Economic Assumptions (ASPO-USA [Dave Cohen], Wed 28 Nov)
Economy - UK
3a/ Bank of England warns credit crisis to worsen (The Telegraph, Mon 26 Nov)
3b/ Trouble looms for a third of mortgages (Reuters, Wed 28 Nov)
3c/ House prices see biggest fall in years (Reuters, Thu 29 Nov)
3d/ Mortgage approval at '3-year low' (BBC News, Thu 29 Nov)
3e/ The big freeze (BBC News [Robert Preston], Thu 29 Nov)
3f/ UK Daily View: UK housing slowdown [video] (Financial Times, Thu 29 Nov)
Economy - USA
4a/ US house prices fall at fastest rate in decades (Financial Times, Wed 28 Nov)
4b/ Wake up to the dangers of a deepening crisis (Financial Times, Sun 25 Nov)
Natural Gas
5a/ £1bn pipeline gives boost to gas supply (Financial Times, Wed 28 Nov)
5b/ Gazprom warns of record gas prices ahead (Financial Times, Wed 28 Nov)
5c/ Russia Agrees To Pay More For Turkmenistan Natural Gas (RTT News, Wed 28 Nov)
5d/ Algeria Faces End To Era Of Easy Gas, Supply Gap Looms (Energy Intelligence [World Gas Intelligence], Wed 28 Nov)
5e/ Country-level imports of liquefied natural gas (LNG) by country of origin for the year 2006 (EIA, Tue 20 Nov)
UK Oil Platforms
6/ North Sea oil operators warned on safety (Financial Times, Thu 22 Nov)
Diesel Prices – UK / Europe
7/ Diesel price up 80% since January 2007 [podcast] (Platts, Fri 23 Nov)
Peak Oil Editorial – “Embassy”
8/ Mr. Harper's Cold Comfort for Canadians (Embassy [Canada], Wed 28 Nov)
IEA’s Latest Publication
9/ Oil Supply Security - Emergency Response of IEA Countries 2007 (IEA, Thu 29 Nov)
Peak Oil / Demand Outstripping Supply
1/ The penny begins to drop, a bit late
1a/ Demand, and high oil prices, are here to stay (Houston Chronicle, Sat 24 Nov)
1b/ Threat of $100 crude raises global alarm (Financial Times, Wed 21 Nov)
1c/ Rod Dreher: Reaching our peak oil supply (The Dallas Morning News, Sun 25 Nov)
1d/ The needle and the damage done (The Toronto Star, Sun 25 Nov)
Preparing for Peak - USA
2/ Legislators want state to plan for oil shortage (The Advocate [Connecticut, USA], Mon 26 Nov)
Economy – USA / Global
3a/ Countdown to lift-off (The Economist, Thu 22 Nov)
3b/ Banks gone wild (International Herald Tribune [NY Times], Fri 23 Nov)
3c/ Rising Rates to Worsen Subprime Mess (Wall Street Journal, Sat 24 Nov)
3d/ Bet your bottom dollar tensions will follow (The Telegraph, Sat 24 Nov)
‘Time’ Covers Peak Oil
4/ Peak Possibilities (Time, Wed 21 Nov)
Peak Oil / Oil Crisis in the Media – UK
5/ Apocalyptic vision of a post-fossil fuel world (The Telegraph, Thu 22 Nov)
Economy - UK
6a/ Debt crunch sparks bankruptcies (The Telegraph, Wed 21 Nov)
6b/ Markets poised for severe fall, says King (The Telegraph, Thu 15 Nov)
6c/ Mortgage approvals dive to record low (Reuters UK, Fri 23 Nov)
6d/ Turning the screw back to 1973 – or perhaps further (The Financial Times, Sun 25 Nov)
6e/ Fund managers raise exit penalties to prevent property collapse (The Independent, Mon 26 Nov)
6f/ House prices drop again as slowdown deepens (The Telegraph, Mon 26 Nov)
6g/ Average Briton is now £33,000 in debt (The Telegraph, Mon 26 Nov)
Natural Gas – Turkmenistan / Russia/ Europe
7/ Turkmenistan calls for gas hike (Financial Times, Fri 23 Nov)
Petrol / Diesel Shortages - China
8/ Troubled waters (The Economist, Thu 22 Nov)
Tupi – Offshore Brazilian Oilfield
9/ Tupi, the new kid in town (The Oil Drum: Europe, Thu 22 Nov)
Global Oil / US Gas Production Forecasts
10/ Long-Term Trends in Global Natural Gas and Crude Oil Supply and Demand Point to Much Higher Prices (The Market Oracle, Sat 24 Nov)
Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari
11/ Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari
Peak Oil in the Media – USA and the Middle East
1a/ Oil Officials See Limit Looming on Production (The Wall Street Journal, Mon 19 Nov)
1b/ After peak oil (Tehran Times, Mon 19 Nov)
1c/ The End of Days? (The Emirates Center for Strategic Studies and Research, Tue 06 Nov)
1d/ Dubai will be underwater in 50 years, alerts Branson (Arabian Business, Sun 18 Nov)
Oil Prices
2/ Oil closes on $100 as Asia drops over US fears (The Times, Wed 21 Nov)
Economy - UK
3a/ House price growth to collapse next year (The Times, Fri 16 Nov)
3b/ Credit squeeze forces rate rise (BBC News, Fri 16 Nov)
3c/ Paragon warns of collapse as financing woes hit share price (The Times, Wed 21 Nov)
Economy - USA
4a/ Credit losses 'may reach $400bn' (BBC News, Fri 16 Nov)
4b/ Risk of Full Blown Financial Crisis - Technicals at a Critical Juncture (The Market Oracle, Sat 10 Nov)
Peak Oil in the Media – UK
5a/ We face a crude awakening over oil prices (The Telegraph, Mon 19 Nov)
5b/ How should I prepare for life without oil? (The Observer, Sun 18 Nov)
5c/ Economic View: Running on empty: peak oil production is in sight, global supplies will dwindle - and the US, for one, is ill-prepared (The Independent on Sunday, Sun 11 Nov)
Big Oil / IEA
6a/ Big Oil CEOs Point To Constraints On Supply Growth (Dow Jones / Energy Bulletin, Thu 08 Nov)
6b/ Transcript: Interview with IEA chief economist (Financial Times, Wed 07 Nov)
Saudi Arabia – Peak Oil and Oil Prices
7a/ WEC [World Energy Congress]: Saudi Aramco chief dismisses peak oil fears (Oil and Gas Journal, Wed 14 Nov)
7b/ Oil prices too high, Saudi minister says (Globe and Mail, Tue 13 Nov)
Natural Gas – Europe and Saudi Arabia
8a/ WEC [World Energy Congress]: Eni's Scaroni says Europe runs risk of gas shortage (Oil and Gas Journal, Tue 13 Nov)
8b/ Shell to Continue Saudi Gas Hunt Despite Dry Wells (Planet Ark [Reuters], Wed 14 Nov)
Biofuels
9a/ No More German Biodiesel Plants Likely to be Built (Planet Ark [Reuters], Wed 14 Nov)
9b/ Green Dreams (National Geographic, Oct 2007)
Food Prices
10/ After the Oil Crisis, a Food Crisis? (Time, Fri 16 Nov)
‘Oil Crisis’ in the US Media
1/ Rising Demand for Oil Provokes New Energy Crisis (NY Times, Fri 09 Nov)
UK Lecture - Richard Heinberg
2/ UK Lecture: What will we eat when the oil runs out?, Richard Heinberg, The Soil Association, London, 22 November 2007
Bolivian Fuel Problems
3/ Fuelling Bolivia's crisis? (BBC News, Thu 08 Nov)
Economy - UK
4a/ House prices continue to fall (The Guardian, Thu 08 Nov)
4b/ UK Trade - Deficit widened to £5.1bn in Sept 2007 (National Statistics [UK govt], Fri 09 Nov)
4c/ The witches' brew of 1987 is back again (The Telegraph, Thu 08 Nov)
4d/ Surveyors see house price falls (BBC News, Tue 13 Nov)
Economy - USA
5a/ Housing meltdown hits US economy (BBC News, Fri 09 Nov)
5b/ Carnage on Wall Street as loans go bad (BBC News, Tue 13 Nov)
Peak Oil / IEA Forecasts in the FT
6a/ Twin threats and a lack of leadership (The Financial Times, Fri 09 Nov)
6b/ Peak oil: How will we cope when the oil has run out? (The Financial Times, Fri 09 Nov)
Oil / Petrol Prices, US EIA Forecasts
1a/ $100 oil within touching distance (Arabian Business, Wed 07 Nov)
1b/ Average petrol cost at £1 a litre (BBC News, Wed 07 Nov)
1c/ Short-Term Energy Outlook – November (US Energy Information Administration, Tue 06 Nov)
1d/ As Oil Nears $100, Look Out Below (Business Week, Wed 07 Nov)
1e/ What's behind the jump in oil prices? (Energy Bulletin, Wed 07 Nov)
Peak Oil films - A Crude Awakening and Crude Impact
2a/ A Crude Awakening and Crude Impact - Two Peak Oil Films (ODAC, Mon 05 Nov)
2b/ UK - A CRUDE AWAKENING: THE OIL CRASH TO BE RELEASED ON FRIDAY 9 NOVEMBER
Economy
3a/ Credit card users hurt by squeeze (The Times, Tue 06 Nov)
3b/ Markets fear banks have $1 trillion in toxic debt (The Independent, Tue 06 Nov)
3c/ Anatomy of a credit crisis (The Independent, Tue 06 Nov)
3d/ Plunging markets fear a meltdown (The Telegraph, Tue 06 Nov)
3e/ Why market turmoil will hit us all (The Telegraph, Tue 06 Nov)
Natural Gas - GTL and Nord Stream
4a/ GTL Progress Falters As Developers Weigh Success Of First Wave Projects (Middle East Economic Survey, Tue 06 Nov)
4b/ Sweden raises a new hurdle for German-Russian pipeline (International Herald Tribune, Tue 06 Nov)
Peak Oil in the UK
5/ Monty Don on Peak Oil and Gardening (Transition Culture, Wed 31 Oct)
6/ Peak Oil in the Mainstream Business Press (The Oil Drum: Europe / ‘Energy’, Mon 05 Nov)
Peak Oil in the Saudi Media
7/ Telling the Whole Truth About Oil (Arab News [The Middle East's Leading English Language Daily], Tue 06 Nov)
Oil Shales
8/ Oil shale prospects (Energy Resources Yahoo Group, Tue 06 Nov)
Biofuels
9/ COMMENT: Biofuels can match oil production (Financial Times, Wed 07 Nov)
IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2007
10a/ Chinese, Indian Growth to Spur Oil `Crunch,' IEA Says (Bloomberg, Wed 07 Nov)
10b/ Oil Prices: It Gets Worse (Time, Wed 07 Nov)
10c/ World Energy Outlook 2007 - China and India Insights (IEA, Wed 07 Nov)
North Sea Storm
11/ Arctic storm disrupts some North sea fields (Reuters, Wed 07 Nov)
Big Oil - Production
1/ Production from oil majors struggles to keep up as oil shoots for $100 - Energy Futures Weekly Review (Platts, Mon 05 Nov)
France – Road and Airport Development
2/ Road-building turns a corner (Financial Times, Fri 02 Nov)
Economy
3a/ Business comment: Le crunch is not over by any stretch of the imagination (The Telegraph, Sat 03 Nov)
3b/ Business Show (Telegraph TV, Mon 05 Nov)
3c/ The Citi Tsunami (BBC News [Robert Peston], Mon 05 Nov)
3d/ Foreclosure wave sweeps America (BBC News, Mon 05 Nov)
Oil and Money Conference 2007
4/ Oil Output Debate Reaches A Watershed (Energy Intelligence [Petroleum Intelligence Weekly], Mon 05 Nov)
Geopolitics – Russia and the UK
5/ Relations between Moscow and London (Energy Intelligence, Fri 02 Nov)
Oil / Petrol Prices
1a/ Soaring oil climbs past $96 mark (BBC News, Thu 01 Nov)
1b/ Oil Traders Raise Bets on $125 Crude as Options Jump (Bloomberg, Thu 01 Nov)
1c/ Gasoline in Europe Rises to Two-Year High on U.K. Refinery Fire (Bloomberg, Thu 01 Nov)
1d/ Giving thanks for $100 oil (Market Watch, Thu 01 Nov)
Review of Energy Watch Group Peak Oil Report
2/ Energy questions that will need to be answered (Liverpool Daily Post, Mon 29 Oct)
Oil and Money Conference - Media Reports
3a/ World oil output struggling, say Arab experts (Reuters, Tue 30 Oct)
3b/ Finfacts Ireland Summary of the Oil and Money conference (Finfacts, Wed 31 Oct)
3c/ Total chief warns on oil output (Financial Times, Wed 31 Oct)
Oil and Money Conference – David Strahan Reports
4/ Oil and Money conference interviews: Sadad al-Huseini and Fatih Birol (lastoilshock.com, this week)
4a/ Oil has peaked, prices to soar - Sadad al-Huseini (lastoilshock.com, Mon 29 Oct)
4b/ Oil reserves over-inflated by 300bn barrels – al-Huseini (lastoilshock.com, Tue 30 Oct)
4c/ IEA reviews reliance on USGS resource estimates (lastoilshock.com, Wed 31 Oct)
Economy - UK
5a/ Surge in 100% mortgages means thousands risk negative equity (The Guardian, Wed 31 Oct)
5b/ Rock's wholesale run (BBC News [Robert Peston], Thu 01 Nov)
5c/ Credit crunch 'may cause price fall' (The Telegraph, Thu 01 Nov)
5d/ House price gloom as the wealthy turn away (The Times, Mon 29 Oct)
Energy Supplies – UK / Malcolm Wicks
6a/ Rising fear of energy crisis this winter (The Guardian, Wed 31 Oct)
6b/ EDF given green light to build gas-fired power plant (The Guardian, Wed 31 Oct)
6c/ ‘Climate Change + Peak Oil = Cutting Carbon + Resilience Building’ or ‘Why Malcolm Wicks Really Hasn’t Got This Peak Oil Thing…’ (Transition Culture, Mon 29 Oct)
Canadian Business on Peak Oil
7/ Big questions, big answers (Canadian Business, Wed 31 Oct)
Peak Gas / Peak Oil - Energy Intelligence
8a/ Twin Peaks -- Will 'Peak Gas' Soon Join 'Peak Oil?' (Energy Intelligence [Energy Intelligence Briefing], Wed 31 Oct)
8b/ Global Oil Production to Plateau in 2012 (Energy Intelligence [International Oil Daily], Wed 31 Oct)
8c/ Peak Gas Could Be Coming Sooner Than You Think (Energy Intelligence [World Gas Intelligence], Wed 31 Oct)
October 2007
Economics – UK and USA
1a/ The sky has already fallen (The Telegraph, Thu 25 Oct)
1b/ A catastrophe foretold (International Herald Tribune [NY Times], Fri 26 Oct)
Oil Prices in Various Currencies
2/ Oil Prices around the World: Do Exchange Rates Matter? (The Oil Drum: Europe, Mon 22 Oct)
Big Oil
3a/ Shell and BP struggle to dig up returns (Financial Times, Thu 25 Oct)
3b/ Oil prices driven by speculation and political tension, says Shell (Financial Times, Fri 26 Oct)
Fertiliser Prices
4/ Fertiliser prices jump as planting grows (Financial Times, Fri 26 Oct)
Albertan Oil and Gas
5/ Alberta to raise oil sector royalties (Financial Times, Fri 26 Oct)
French Government Policies
6a/ France goes green with switch from air to rail (The independent, Fri 26 Oct)
6b/ Sarkozy Promises a Green Revolution for France (Reuters, Fri 26 Oct)
6c/ French Green Congress Proposes Motorway Freeze (Planet Ark [Reuters], Thu 25 Oct)
Gas Production - Norway
7a/ Plans to Speed Up Troll Output Canceled (Energy Intelligence [International Oil Daily], Mon 22 Oct)
7b/ Europe Faces Potentially Flatter Norwegian Gas Profile (Energy Intelligence [World Gas Intelligence], Wed 24 Oct)
Dubai / UAE
8a/ Palm island dredgers running out of sand (Arabian Business, Thu 11 Oct)
8b/ Dubai Megaprojects (Gulf News, Ongoing)
8c/ UAE to court private power investors (Arabian Business, Wed 24 Oct)
8d/ Shanghai owner aims to buy 'China' on The World (Arabian Business, Sat 20 Oct)
Quality of Crude Oil Supply
9/ 'Quality' crude oil supply declining [podcast] (Platts, Thu 25 Oct)
Food Prices (Beer) / Biofuels / Inflation
10a/ Beer drinkers beware: Shortage to boost costs (MSNBC, Fri 26 Oct)
10b/ Corn For Ethanol: An Inflation Crop (CIBC World Markets, Mon 22 Oct)
Nuclear Power
11/ Nuclear Power Output Could Double by 2030 - IAEA (Planet Ark [Reuters], Thu 25 Oct)
Car Sales – Russia
12/ Future of Russia’s Auto Industry Assured (FC Novosti, Mon 29 Oct)
New Peak Oil Report from the Energy Watch Group
1a/ Crude Oil – The Supply Outlook (Energy Watch Group, October 2007)
1b/ Chris Skrebowski on alarming new peak oil report (Global Public Media, Tue 23 Oct)
1c/ Report: 'World at peak oil output' (CNN, Wed 24 Oct)
1d/ Steep decline in oil production brings risk of war and unrest, says new study (The Guardian, Mon 22 Oct)
Peak Oil Newsletter - Australia
2/ Australian Peak Oil newsletter
Economy - USA
3a/ Merrill Lynch stuns with an $8bn subprime hit (The Times, Wed 24 Oct)
3b/ Merrill Lynch forced to lift provision for sub-prime debt to $7.9bn (The Times, Thu 25 Oct)
Speeches From Big Oil
4a/ Chevron CTO [Chief Technology Officer] Says Peak Oil Won't Be a Disaster (GreenTechMedia, Wed 24 Oct)
4b/ Peak Oil: GVP, Exploration & LTR (BP, Mon 10 Sep - posted this week)
Platts Reports on ASPO-USA Peak Oil Conference
5a/ Peak oil meeting mostly discouraging [podcast] (Platts, Tue 23 Oct)
5b/ Report from ASPO: Dark clouds, no silver linings (Platts, Tue 23 Oct)
Oil Prices
6a/ U.S. oil above $88 on supply concern (Reuters, Thu 25 Oct)
6b/ PETROLEUM ($US/bbl) (Bloomberg, Wed 12 Sep)
Economy - UK
7a/ Sharp drop in mortgages increases housing gloom (The Times, Thu 25 Oct)
7b/ UK financial system at risk from new shocks, says Bank [of England] (The Times, Thu 25 Oct)
Iraq and Oil
8/ Endgame for Iraqi Oil? (TomDispatch, Wed 24 Oct)
Peak Food
9a/ Bread and butter issue: Rising prices may herald the first global food shortage since the 1970s (Financial Times, Tue 23 Oct)
9b/ Supermarkets 'raise food bill by £750 a year' (The Telegraph, Wed 24 Oct)
UK - North Sea
10/ BP to cut 350 North Sea oil jobs (BBC News, Wed 24 Oct)
Population
11/ Global over-population is the real issue (The Telegraph, Thu 25 Oct)
ASPO-USA Peak Oil Conference 17-21 Oct.
1a/ Peak Oil Conference Consensus: Crude Demand Outpacing Supply (Energy Intelligence [Oil Daily], Fri 18 Oct)
1b/ Houston ASPO - the Workshop day (The Oil Drum, Thu 18 Oct)
1c/ ASPO Houston :Day 1, part 1 (The Oil Drum, Fri 19 Oct)
1d/ ASPO Houston :Day 1, part 2 (The Oil Drum, Sat 20 Oct)
Economy – UK and Europe
2a/ UK house market is ‘heading for crash’ (The Times, Thu 18 Oct)
2b/ New mortgage approvals plummet by 12% (The Times, Thu 18 Oct)
2c/ Eastern Europe to reap its own subprime crisis (The Telegraph, Thu 18 Oct)
2d/ UK housing: How storm clouds gather [podcast] (Telegraph, Wed 17 Oct)
Geopolitics - Caspian
3/ Energy-rich Caspian becomes center of U.S.-Russia power struggle (International Herald Tribune, Wed 17 Oct)
Coal / China / Kyoto Protocol
4/ China’s drive for wealth means end of our low-carbon dreams (The Times, Wed 17 Oct)
Natural Gas - Iran
5/ Iran plans $130bn gas investments (Arabian Business, Thu 18 Oct)
Russia - Wheat Exports
6/ Wheat Export Tax to Soar Fivefold (FC Novosti, Fri 29 Oct)
ASPO-USA P.O. Conf. – Media Response
7a/ Global Oil Output Has Already Peaked, Pickens Says (Bloomberg, Fri 19 Oct)
7b/ Saudi Aramco may miss production goals, says Simmons (Business Intelligence Middle East, Fri 19 Oct)
Videos – Oil Prices in the News
8/ Three videos on the price of oil (The Oil Drum, Thu 18 Oct)
Economy - USA
9/ Wall St caught in a perfect storm (The Telegraph, Sat 20 Oct)
Oilwatch Monthly
1/ Oilwatch Monthly - October 2007 (The Oil Drum: Europe, Tue 16 Oct)
ASPO-6 DVDs / Presentations
2a/ ASPO-6 DVD Set Now Available to Order (ASPO Ireland, Sun 14 Oct)
2b/ ASPO-6 Presentations Now Available Online (ASPO Ireland, Sun 14 Oct)
Oil Supplies / Prices
3a/ Platts Economist Sees Tighter Oil Supplies Ahead (CNN News [DOW JONES NEWSWIRES], Mon 15 Oct)
3b/ Crude oil jumps to all-time high above $86 amid fears on supplies (Financial Times, Tue 16 Oct)
3c/ Oil to soar above $90 next year says expert (Gulf Daily News, Tue 09 Oct)
3d/ OPEC Basket Crude Price Surpasses $80 a Barrel for First Time (Bloomberg, Wed 17 Oct)
3e/ OECD Oil Inventories Stay Flat As Winter Approaches (Energy Intelligence [Energy Intelligence Briefing], Wed 17 Oct)
3f/ LEADER: A world of dear oil (Financial Times, Wed 17 Oct)
Food Prices
4/ Food prices to treble in five years: CBH (Stock Journal [Australia], Fri 12 Oct)
Natural Gas / LNG - Qatar
5a/ Concern rises over health of Qatari gas reserves (Financial Times, Tue 16 Oct)
5b/ Dolphin Project Exporting Over 1Bn CFD, Seen At 2Bn CFD By End-March (Middle East Economic Survey, Mon 08 Oct)
Geopolitics and Peak Oil
6/ Geopolitical Feedback Loops in Peak Oil (The Oil Drum, Wed 03 Oct)
Economics - UK
7a/ Third of mortgage applications denied (Telegraph, Tue 16 Oct)
7b/ This bear is not capitulating (The Telegraph, Tue 16 Oct)
7c/ 'UK banks have little buffer for a downturn' (The Independent, Wed 17 Oct)
Coal Prices
8/ Coal for Europe Delivery Next-Year Reaches Record Before Talks (Bloomberg, Tue 16 Oct)
Natural Gas – Russia and Ukraine
9/ Gazprom as a Predictable Partner. Another Reading of the Russian-Ukrainian and Russian-Belarusian Energy Crises (Institut français des relations internationales, March 2007)
DVD Review - A Crude Awakening
10/ Waking up to the truths of oil’s past, present and future (Lloyd’s List, Fri 12 Oct)
New Thesis on Russian Oil Production
11/ Russian Oil - a Depletion Rate Model estimate of the future Russian oil production and export (Aram Mäkivierikko, Oct 2007)
Peak Oil, South Africa
12a/ Facing the looming energy crisis (iafrica.com, Mon 15 Oct)
12b/ Conference: Preparing Southern Africa for Global Oil Depletion, Johannesburg, South Africa, 8-9 November 2007
Oil Price
1/ Oil Rises Above $86 to a Record on Turkey-Iraq Border Tension (Bloomberg, Mon 15 Oct)
Economy - UK
2/ This economic crisis is bound to hurt (The Telegraph, Thu 11 Oct)
Economy - USA
3a/ US home foreclosures double (Financial Times, Thu 11 Oct)
3b/ Wall Street trio poised to unveil $100bn fund to fight American credit crisis (The Times, Mon 15 Oct)
Population
4a/ Australia - Largest population increase ever (Beyond Oil News / Australian Bureau of Statistics, Thu 11 Oct)
4b/ Australian conference: Population, Peak Oil, Climate Change: their impact on the Millennium Development Goals, 14-15 March 2008, Canberra
4c/ Feedback on Population (Tue 09 Oct)
Unconventional Oil Production Forecasts
5/ Forget Your Silver Bullet (EV World, Thu 04 Oct)
Coal - UK
6/ The new coal age (The Guardian, Tue 09 Oct)
Peak Minerals
7/ Peak Minerals (The Oil Drum: Europe, Mon 15 Oct)
Peak Metals
1/ Peak Metal (theologyweb, Tue 09 Oct)
Gas Supplies: Turkmenistan - Russia - Ukraine
2a/ Credit squeeze linked to Ukraine gas dispute (The Financial Times, Mon 08 Oct)
2b/ Russia settles dispute over Ukraine gas debt (The Financial Times, Tue 09 Oct)
2c/ The Turkmenistan - Russia - Ukraine Natural Gas Saga Comes Back To Life – Feedback
Natural Gas Exports - Azerbaijan
3a/ Azerbaijan: Looming Gas Power? (Energy Intelligence [World Gas Intelligence], Wed 10 Oct)
3b/ Harsh Realities Cloud Caspian Hopes (World Gas Intelligence, Wed 26 Sep)
LNG Imports – China and Japan
4/ China's Spot Appetite (Energy Intelligence [World Gas Intelligence], Wed 10 Oct)
US Energy Information Administration Forecasts
5/ US Energy Information Administration Forecasts for Winter 2007/8 (Energy Intelligence, Wed 10 Oct)
Economy - UK Trade Deficit
6/ UK’s trade deficit narrows (Financial Times, Tue 09 Oct)
BBC Peak Oil Documentary
7/ Patrick Holden, Peak Oil, Local Food and Transition (Transition Culture / BBC, Wed 10 Oct)
Shortage of Oil and Gas Workers
8/ Help wanted...lots of it (Platts [The Barrel], Fri 05 Oct)
Biofuels
9/ Biofuel Bandwagon Slows as Feedstock Prices Surge (Planet Ark [Reuters], Fri 05 Oct)
UK Oil Depletion Conference
10/ UK conference: Oil Depletion - continuing the debate, Energy Institute, London, 14 November 2007
Electricity Research in the UK
1/ Low utility bills blamed for cuts in energy research (Telegraph, Sat 06 Oct)
Economy – UK and the US Dollar
2a/ Cost of loans rises as credit crunch bites (The Independent, Thu 04 Oct)
2b/ Jump off the deranged bull now (The Telegraph, Tue 02 Oct)
2c/ Dollar's double blow from Vietnam and Qatar (The Telegraph, Thu 04 Oct)
2d/ Sub-prime borrowers face repossession (BBC News, Sat 06 Oct)
Shortage of Oil and Gas Workers
3a/ Shortage of skilled staff hits oil projects (Financial Times, Thu 04 Oct)
3b/ Shortage of engineers likely to hit projects by 2010, says study (Financial Times, Thu 04 Oct)
Fourth Quarter 2007 Oil Supplies
4/ Demand Growth Picks Up, Non-Opec Supply Set To Fly (Energy Intelligence [Energy Intelligence Briefing], Wed 03 Oct)
LNG Supplies
5/ Delays Hit Qatar's New Gas Projects (Energy Intelligence [International Oil Daily], Thu 04 Oct)
Gas Supplies: Turkmenistan - Russia - Ukraine
6a/ The Turkmenistan - Russia - Ukraine Natural Gas Saga Comes Back To Life (Energy Intelligence, Thu 04 Oct)
6b/ Gazprom says it has deal on gas with Kiev ((Financial Times, Thu 04 Oct)
Saudi Arabia – Aluminium Smelter Development / Natural Gas Supplies
7/ Plans for Saudi's $3bn smelter underway (Arabian Business, Thu 04 Oct)
US – Corn to Ethanol
8/ US energy policy (Financial Times, Thu 04 Oct)
Octobers issue of ‘Energy’ from Press And Journal, Scotland
9a/ Stellar Performance With Astrophysicist At The Helm (Press and Journal ‘Energy’ supplement, Mon 01 Oct)
9b/ Peak Oil 10-20 Years Away, Claims World Energy Council (Press and Journal ‘Energy’ supplement, Mon 01 Oct)
Rising Fuel Costs – Burma / Globally
1a/ Costly Fuel Is Never Far From a Match (NY Times, Sat 30 Sep)
1b/ The hardship that sparked Burma's unrest (BBC News, Tue 02 Oct)
Natural Gas Exports – Russia and Turkmenistan
2a/ Russian gas: Will there be enough investment? (Energy Publisher, Tue 25 Sep)
2b/ A massive wrench thrown in Putin's works (Asia Times, Sat 29 Sep)
BioEthanol in the USA
3/ Ethanol’s Boom Stalling as Glut Depresses Price (NY Times, Mon 24 Sep)
Big Oil - Buying Its Own Shares and Falling Production
4/ Slow, Steady Liquidation of the World Oil Industry: David Pauly (Bloomberg / peakoil.com, Mon 01 Oct)
Coal – Rising Prices
5a/ Newcastle Coal Rises a Third Week on Quota Reduction (Update2) (Bloomberg, Mon 01 Oct)
5b/ Record coal prices hammer power generators (Reuters, Fri 28 Sep)
5c/ China Raises Coal Prices for South Korea Above Japan (Update2) (Bloomberg, Wed 03 Oct)
Economy – UK and Spain
6a/ UBS job losses could be shape of things to come (The Telegraph, Tue 02 Oct)
6b/ Humiliation of UBS (BBC News [Robert Peston], Mon 01 Oct)
6c/ Crunch triggers higher loan costs for businesses and homebuyers (The Times, Tue 02 Oct)
6d/ Sub-prime claims Spanish developer (The Telegraph, Wed 03 Oct)
Russia – Car Sales
7/ Russia to Take Car Sales Lead in Europe by 2010 (FC Novosti, Mon 01 Oct)
Natural Gas Imports - UK
8/ UK Provides Hints Of Qatari Project Delays (Energy Intelligence [World Gas Intelligence], Wed 03 Oct)
The Hedberg Conference
1/ Private industry conference finds much less oil [interview with Ray Leonard on the Hedberg conference] (Lastoilshock.com, Fri 28 Sep)
Norwegian Oil Production – the Snoehvit field and IEA Projections
2/ No oil development at Snoehvit (The Norway Post, Thu 27 Sep)
UK Natural Gas Supplies
3/ Gas supplies rise but lower bills unlikely (Financial Times, Thu 27 Sep)
Russian Gas Imports - Turkmenistan
4/ Turkmenistan plans 50% hike in gas price for Gazprom: report (Platts, Thu 27 Sep)
Economics - UK
5/ Poorest could see mortgage payments shoot up 60% (The Guardian, Fri 28 Sep)
Russia – Car Sales Growth
6/ Russia’s Auto Market Ranks 8th in the World (FC Novosti, Fri 28 Sep)
Natural Gas supplies - Italy
7/ Italy Warns of Possible Winter Blackouts (Energy Intelligence [International Oil Daily], Fri 28 Sep)
Food - Wheat
8a/ Australia Beef Crisis Hits as Drought Decimates Wheat (Planet Ark [Reuters], Fri 28 Sep)
8b/ Record [prices] for wheat as crop forecasts shrivel (Financial Times, Thu 27 Sep)
Petrol Prices - Australia
9/ Report warns of petrol chaos (Courier Mail [Australia], Sat 15 Sep)
Natural Gas Exports - Iran
10/ Iran to produce 11m tons LNG in 2010 (Press TV, Fri 28 Sep)
Coal Prices
11/ Coal prices soar to record over $100 (Reuters, Thu 27 Sep)
September 2007
Global Oil Production Summary Report
1/ Oilwatch Monthly - September 2007 (The Oil Drum: Europe [ASPO Netherlands], Mon 17 Sep)
Big Oil – BP’s Performance
2/ BP faces shake-up as boss warns of ‘dreadful’ results (The Times, Tue 25 Sep)
Economy - UK
3a/ '10% chance' of house price crash [in the UK] (BBC News, Tue 18 Sep)
3b/ IMF fears over Britain's sub-prime market (The Telegraph, Wed 26 Sep)
Nuclear Energy – New Build
4/ Yemen nuclear deal sparks security fears [five new nuclear reactors] (Arabian Business, Tue 25 Sep)
Oil Production - UAE
5/ UAE forced to slash oil output by a quarter (Arabian Business, Sun 23 Sep)
Dubai – Tower MegaProjects
6/ Samsung lines up next tower megaproject (Arabian Business, Sat 15 Sep)
Natural Gas – Nabucco/ Turkmenistan/ Iran
7a/ Turkey defends energy ties with Iran despite U.S. opposition (Tehran Times, Tue 25 Sep)
7b/ U.S. officials woo Turkmenistan's president (International Herald Tribune, Tue 25 Sep)
7c/ EU initiates Nabucco gas pipeline planning (Oil and Gas Journal, Thu 20 Sep)
Energy Intelligence – various
8a/ Oil Price Forecasts from Goldman Sachs (Energy Intelligence, Tue 18 Sep)
8b/ Demand Runs Ahead Of Supply As Oil Inventories Fall (Energy Intelligence [Energy Intelligence Briefing], Tue 18 Sep)
8c/ New Taxes May Hit Tar Sands Production (Energy Intelligence, Thu 20 Sep)
8d/ Venezuela Outlines Plans to Build Petrochemical Industry (Energy Intelligence [Oil Daily], Tue 25 Sep)
Food – Australian Wheat Crop 2007
1/ Australia cuts wheat forecast by a third (Financial Times, Wed 19 Sep)
Natural Gas - China
2/ China 2020 natural gas consumption seen at 9 pct of energy total – CNOOC (CNN Money, Thu 20 Sep)
Food Security
3a/ Counting the cost of wheat price hike (BBC News, Fri 21 Sep)
3b/ Costs may lead EU to beef up ‘food security’ (Financial Times, Tue 18 Sep)
ASPO-6 Summary
4/ Two barrels of oil are used for each one found. $100 oil anyone? (Globe and Mail [Canada], Fri 21 Sep)
Economy – Subprime Crisis/Credit Crunch
5a/ Banking crisis: Don't blame the central banks (Sunday Telegraph, Sun 23 Sep)
5b/ Economic Outlook: Housing waits to assess damage to confidence (Financial Times, Sun 23 Sep)
5c/ Growth only as safe as houses (Financial Times, Sun 23 Sep)
5d/ US expert warns of fresh shocks (Financial Times, Wed 19 Sep)
Nuclear Power
6/ Who Will Foot the Nuclear Power Bill? (Reuters, Mon 10 Sep)
Natural Gas – the Nabucco Pipeline
7/ Azerbaijan Plays Down OMV Hopes for Potential Nabucco Gas (Energy Intelligence [International Oil Daily], Mon 24 Sep)Wed 14 Sep
Economy - UK
1a/ Mervyn spanks banks (BBC News [Robert Peston], Wed 12 Sep)
1b/ Scything the City (BBC News [Robert Peston], Thu 13 Sep)
1c/ Northern Rock is bailed out by Bank of England (The Times, Fri 14 Sep)
1d/ Northern Rock shares plunge 32% (BBC News, Fri 14 Sep)
Biofuels
2/ Doubts raised over EU’s biofuels target (Financial Times, Thu 13 Sep)
Middle East
3/ Saudi to fence off Iraq (Arabian Business, Wed 12 Sep)
Natural Gas – UK/Norway
4/ Norway's giant Ormen Lange gas field starts production (Platts, Thu 13 Sep)
Global Oil Production
5/ A Non-OPEC Progress Report (ASPO-USA, Wed 12 Sep)
Food Prices
6/ The market ingredients are put in place for a more costly full English breakfast (The Times, Fri 14 Sep)
Natural Gas Exports – Russia to Western Europe
7/ Flash Points: Russia's Pricing Weapon (Energy Intelligence [Energy Compass], Fri 14 Sep)
Peak Oil Report – Queensland, Australia
8/ Govt warns of `peak oil' chaos (Courier Mail [Australia], Sat 15 Sep)
Oil Prices
1a/ Crude Oil Trades Near Record on Fourth-Quarter Supply Concern (Bloomberg, Wed 12 Sep)
1b/ US Agency Sees Oil Prices Staying Above $70 Through 2008 (Energy Intelligence [Oil Daily], Wed 12 Sep)
1c/ Oil Rises to Record $80 on Larger-Than-Expected Supply Decline (Bloomberg, Wed 12 Sep)
1d/ PETROLEUM ($US/bbl) (Bloomberg, Wed 12 Sep)
Global Refinery Production
2/ IEA Says Global Refinery Runs to Fall 1.4 Million Barrels a Day (Bloomberg, Wed 12 Sep)
Economy - Subprime scam, Credit Squeeze
3a/ Bracing for collateral damage among Wall Street's big houses (IHT, Mon 10 Sep)
3b/ More US subprime borrowers hit (Financial Times, Thu 06 Sep)
3c/ Andreas Whittam Smith: There's a storm brewing – and it's coming this way (The Independent, Tue 11 Sep)
3d/ Too close to home (BBC News [Robert Peston], Mon 10 Sep)
Mexican Oil Production
4/ Pemex Blames Sabotage in 6 Separate Pipeline Blasts (Bloomberg, Mon 10 Sep)
Geopolitics / LNG - Algeria
5/ Sonatrach seeks damages from Repsol and Gas Natural (Elkhabar [Algeria], Thu 06 Sep)
Russia – Car Imports
6/ Russian Car Imports Up 60% in January-July (FC Novosti, Mon 10 Sep)
Saudi Arabia –Natural Gas Supplies
7/ Aluminium smelter planned for Saudi (Arabian Business, Tue 11 Sep)
Canadian Tar Sands / OPEC Oil Exports
8a/ OPEC exports predicted to fall putting Canadian oil sands in global energy spotlight (CNN Money, Tue 11 Sep)
8b/ OPEC’s Growing Call on Itself (CIBC World Markets, Occasional Report #62, Mon 10 Sep)
8c/ Oil sands facing capacity squeeze (Globe and Mail, Mon 10 Sep)
Energy Intelligence – Various
9a/ Rosneft Will Not Extend China Crude Supply Contract Past 2010 (Energy Intelligence [International Oil Daily], Wed 12 Sep)
9b/ Another Shtokman Surprise Coming? (Energy Intelligence [World Gas Intelligence], Wed 12 Sep)
9c/ Gazprom's Eastern Strategy (Energy Intelligence [World Gas Intelligence], Wed 12 Sep)
9d/ PetroChina Goes For Pricey Term LNG (Energy Intelligence [World Gas Intelligence], Wed 12 Sep)
Economy - UK
10/ Imports of oil hit trade deficit data (Financial Times, Wed 12 Sep)
Food – Wheat Prices
11/ Wheat tops $9 mark for first time (BBC News, Wed 12 Sep)
Global Oil Production
1a/ August Oil Supply Falls 1 Million b/d Short Of Demand (Energy Intelligence [Energy Intelligence Briefing], Wed 05 Sep)
1b/ OPEC Oil Production (Energy Intelligence, Fri 07 Sep)
1c/ August Oil Production (Energy Intelligence, Thu 06 Sep)
1d/ MegaProjects data and Global Oil Production (Petroleum Review, Feb 2007)
Peak Oil and Climate Change at the APEC Meetings
2/ Don't blow it APEC, habitable planets are hard to find (crikey, Thu 06 Sep)
Russia – Oil Nationalism
3/ Building a Super-giant? (Russia Profile, Wed 05 Sep)
Food
4a/ Hot Winds Severely Damage Australian Wheat (Planet Ark [Reuters], Thu 06 Sep)
4b/ Australia's Dry Threatens Wine Drought (Planet Ark [Reuters], Thu 06 Sep)
4c/ EU Approves BP Joint Venture for Biofuels (Planet Ark [Reuters], Fri 31 Aug)
4d/ The Looming Food Crisis (The Guardian, Wed 29 Aug)
4e/ Low grain harvest, rising food prices and China’s ethanol plan (Energy Bulletin, Sun 09 Sep)
Population - Russia
5/ Where Have All the Children Gone? (Russia Profile, Thu 06 Sep)
Kazakhstan – Kashagan Oil Field
6/ Eni Standoff Leaves Kashagan In Turmoil (Energy Intelligence [Petroleum Intelligence Weekly], Fri 07 Sep)
Economics - UK
7/ Mortgages to rise as crisis grips the markets [UK] (The Telegraph, Fri 07 Sep)
Peak Oil in the Sunday Times
8/ You’re going green ...or else (The Sunday Times, Sun 09 Sep)
Natural Gas Flaring
9/ Oil Industry Flares $40 Billion a Year in Gas (Spiegel Online, Fri 07 Sep)
Asian LNG Spot Prices
10/ Nuke plant shutdown strains Asian markets (Oil and Gas Journal, Fri 07 Sep)
Economics - the Subprime Scam
11/ Attorneys General step up pursuit of wrongdoing on Wall Street (The Independent, Sat 08 Sep)
Food Prices in the UK
1/ Rising price of wheat signals end of low-cost food, warns Premier chief (The Independent, Wed 05 Sep)
Economy – Subprime Fallout
2a/ Credit woes hit bank lending rate (BBC News, Tue 04 Sep)
2b/ Liars’ loans (BBC News [Peston’s Picks], Mon 20 Aug)
2c/ Mervyn’s muddle (BBC News [Peston’s Picks], Mon 20 Aug)
2d/ Credit crunch gallery of guilt (The independent, Wed 05 Sep)
Russia – Sakhalin-1 Project
3/ Gazprom May Buy Sakhalin-1 Gas for Russian Far East (Update2) (Bloomberg, Tue 04 Sep)
Resource Nationalism – Algeria and Kazakhstan
4a/ Algeria Shuns Repsol And Gas Natural (Forbes, Tue 04 Sep)
4b/ Caspian lessons for oil giants [Kashagan update] (onet.pl [Financial Times], Tue 04 Sep)
4c/ Kashagan Consortium Talks of Demobilizing (Energy Intelligence [International Oil Daily], Wed 05 Sep)
Iran – Internal Politics and Oil
5/ Iran: An oil industry that lost its head (Asia Times, Tue 04 Sep)
Natural Gas – Argentina and Chile
6/ Argentinean natural gas cuts continue to curtail Chilean methanol production (Petroleum World [Platts], Tue 04 Sep)
Natural Gas - China
7/ Policy on natural gas streamlined (China View [Shanghai Daily], Tue 04 Sep)
Global Oil and Gas Reserves v Costs, 2006
1a/ Upstream Spending Surge Fails to Deliver (Energy Intelligence [Oil Daily], Thu 30 Aug)
1b/ Global Upstream Performance Review 2007 (Harrison Lovegrove + co, Wed 29 Aug)
1c/ Global oil reserves up only 1% last year (Financial Post [Canada], Thu 20 Aug)
The Iraqi Conflict
2/ "Iraq Does Not Exist Anymore" (Democracy Now, Tue 21 Aug)
Food – Drought in Australia
3/ Drought Catastrophe Stalks Australia's Food Bowl (Planet Ark [Reuters], Thu 30 Aug)
Natural Gas - UK
4/ Oversupply of gas does not mean price cuts (The Telegraph, Mon 03 Sep)
Food – Wheat in Russia
5/ Moscow considers wheat export ban (The Financial Times, Sun 02 Sep)
Food - Milk Prices
6/ In a growing world, milk is the new oil (International Herald Tribune, Fri 31 Aug)
Natural Gas - Bangladesh
7/ Bangladesh: No Gas for Eight Proposed Large & Medium Power Plants (Energy Bangla [Bangladesh], Sun 02 Sep)
August 2007
Economics
1a/ US could be heading for recession (The Telegraph, Mon 27 Aug)
1b/ Overheating sees house price downturn in Europe (The Telegraph, Mon 27 Aug)
1c/ What’s in the Pipeline? (CIBC World Markets, Fri 24 Aug)
1d/ Unsold homes in US rise by 5% (Financial Times, Mon 27 Aug)
1e/ Business Comment: US housing crash reminds us [UK] we're due a correction (The Telegraph, Wed 29 Aug)
Food Prices
2a/ Wheat price surge bites baguettes (Financial Times, Sun 26 Aug)
2b/ Cost of meat 'is set to rise' (BBC News, Tue 28 Aug)
Geopolitics – Kashagan Oil Field, Kazakhstan
3a/ Kashagan Faces Russia-Style Squeeze (The Moscow Times, Mon 27 Aug)
3b/ Kazakhstan Orders Eni to Halt Work on Biggest Field (Update3) (Bloomberg, Mon 27 Aug)
Iran – Oil
4/ Iranian Oil Officials Fear Second Purge As Nozari Is Lined Up For Ministerial Role (Middle East Economic Survey, Mon 27 Aug)
Oil and Gas Revenues
5/ Peak Oil - less Govt revenue (Trinidad and Tobago Express, Mon 27 Aug)
Middle East Energy Supplies
6/ Middle East risks fuel oil crunch period, says IEA (Business Intelligence Middle East, Sun 12 Aug)
Oil Prices
7/ Investec's Guinness sees oil price doubling - FEEDBACK (Reuters, Thu 19 Jul)
National Petroleum Council Peak Oil report
8/ NPC Report is Hand Grenade in Bubble Wrap (ASPO-USA, Mon 27 Aug)
Russia - Anna Politkovskaya
9/ Anna Politkovskaya’s assassination, and the subsequent investigation
9a/ Chechen ‘hitmen’ and FSB agents are held over journalist’s murder (The Times, Tue 28 Aug)
9b/ Showing Progress (Russia Profile, Tue 28 Aug)
USA – Natural Gas Supplies
10a/ US Natural Gas Supplies comment (Energy Intelligence, Tue 28 Aug)
10b/ Conoco's Mulva: "The World Has A Natural Gas Problem" (Energy Intelligence [World Gas Intelligence], Wed 29 Aug)
USGS – East of Greenland Oil and Gas Estimates, 2000 v 2007
11a/ USGS Cuts Greenland Estimate (Energy Intelligence [Oil Daily], Wed 29 Aug)
11b/ USGS assessment indicates vast undiscovered oil, gas in Arctic (Platts, Tue 28 Aug)
11c/ USGS Releases New Oil and Gas Assessment of Northeastern Greenland (USGS, Tue 28 Aug)
Economics
1a/ Record numbers face debt meltdown (The Telegraph, Thu 23 Aug)
1b/ Brace yourself for the insolvency crunch (The Telegraph, Thu 23 Aug)
1c/ Shares Slump and Credit Crunch: Passing Peak Oil (Phil Hart, Fri 17 Aug)
1d/ Financial crises: Lessons from history (BBC News, Sun 26 Aug)
OPEC and Oil Supply/Demand Balance
2/ Opec File: Ready to Fill the Gap [but not for long] (Energy Intelligence [Energy Compass], Fri 24 Aug)
Food Prices/Stocks
3/ Harvest fears trigger rise in wheat prices (Financial Times, Fri 24 Aug)
Energy Crisis in Argentina
4/ Argentine Industrial Output Growth Slowest in 5 Years (Update2) (Bloomberg, Fri 24 Aug)
Oil Exports Russia - Germany
5/ Russia cuts oil supplies to Germany (Financial Times, Fr i24 Aug)
Canadian Tar Sands
6/ Tar Sands: The Oil Junkie's Last Fix, Part 1 (Energy and Capital, Fri 24 Aug)
Economics – Subprime Crisis
1/ Global financial problems continue
1a/ City hit by biggest crisis for a decade (The Telegraph, Sat 11 Aug)
1b/ Global stock markets tumble on credit fears (The Telegraph, Fri 17 Aug)
1c/ Hedge Funds Are Squeezed by Investors and Lenders (The NY Times, Mon 20 Aug)
1d/ Business comment: Sub-prime crisis is the edge of a financial hurricane (The Telegraph, Mon 20 Aug)
Russia – car production / Shtokman update
2a/ Truck Production in Russia Up 20%, to 158,000, in Seven Months [Car Production] (FC Novosti, Fri 17 Aug)
2b/ Gazprom Chooses First Supplier for Shtokman Project (FC Novosti, Mon 20 Aug)
UK - electricity
3a/ Revealed: cover-up plan on energy target (The Guardian, Mon 13 Aug)
3b/ UK gencos to invest $14 billion in low-carbon plant by 2012: AEP (Platts, Mon 13 Aug)
3c/ Go-ahead for gas-fired power station (Financial Times, Mon 20 Aug)
3d/ No New UK Nuclear Power Likely Before 2020 – Poyry (Planet Ark [Reuters], Tue 21 Aug)
Turkmenistan / Azerbaijan / Kazakhstan oil and gas
4a/ Turkmenistan seeks other outlets besides Russia for gas exports (Platts, Fri 17 Aug)
4b/ Kazakhstan and China sign oil and gas pipelines agreement (Financial Times, Mon 20 Aug)
Peak Oil - Switzerland
5/ "Peak oil" becomes burning issue (Swiss Info, Mon 20 Aug)
Coal Imports - Asia
6/ Asia's thermal coal supply squeeze to worsen in '08 (Reuters, Fri 17 Aug)
Big Oil – R&D Spending
7/ COMPANIES INTERNATIONAL: Oil groups put faith in R&D as states lock up (Financial Times, Tue 21 Aug)
Iran – Natural Gas Exports
8/ Tehran advised not to export gas (The International News [Pakistan], Mon 20 Aug)
Russian Oil Production
9a/ For Russia, An End To Growth is In Sight (ASPO-USA, Wed 15 Aug)
9b/ Russia Oil Report (Whiskey and Gunpowder, May/June 2007 ?)
India - natural gas supplies
10/ Exit Iran's oil minister, and a pipeline too (Asia Times, Fri 17 Aug)
Economy - Europe
1/ Europe narrowly avoids financial meltdown, for now
1a/ ECB injects €95bn to help markets (Financial Times, Thu 09 Aug)
1b/ ECB injects emergency funds for first time since 9/11 (The Telegraph, Fri 10 Aug)
1c/ Europe slammed by U.S. credit crisis (International Herald Tribune, Thu 09 Aug)
1d/ The derivatives vacuum (Financial Times, Thu 09 Aug)
1e/ Credit crisis puts global finance to test (International Herald Tribune, Thu 09 Aug)
1f/ ECB steps in as lending rates rocket (The Telegraph, Fri 10 Aug)
1g/ Business Comment: ECB's confidence trick won't restore faith in market (The Telegraph, Fri 10 Aug)
1h/ Shaky markets stir rumors of who is in trouble (International Herald Tribune, Fri 10 Aug)
Iraqi Oil
2/ Iraqi Oil Update (Energy Intelligence, Thu 09 Aug)
Economy - USA
3a/ China threatens to trigger US dollar crash (The Telegraph [UK], Wed 08 Aug)
3b/ Toll warns on deepening [US] housing slump (Financial Times, Wed 08 Aug)
UK Oil Production / Trade Deficit
4a/ Increased North Sea oil production shrinks UK trade deficit (The Guardian, Thu 09 Aug)
4b/ UK trade gap narrows as oil exports jump (Financial Times, Thu 09 Aug)
Electricity/Coal - Canada
5/ Ontario Walks Tightrope on Plan to End Coal Use (Planet Ark [Reuters], Fri 10 Aug)
Economy - UK
6a/ More expensive borrowing the only credible outlook (The Times, Thu 09 Aug)
6b/ Why the Bank [of England] will raise rates, and soon (The Telegraph, Wed 08 Aug)
Gulf of Mexico storm
7/ Potential storm helps oil rebound (Houston Chronicle, Fri 10 Aug)
Economics
1a/ Oil Falls on Concern Subprime Debacle Will Reduce U.S. Growth (Bloomberg, Mon 06 Aug)
1b/ Fallout from U.S. subprime market widens, costing the job of a top banker (International Herald Tribune, Mon 06 Aug)
1c/ Subprime fallout deepens in Germany (International Herald Tribune, Mon 06 Aug)
1d/ Mortgage renewals set to prick U.S. property bubble (International Herald Tribune, Wed 01 Aug)
Electricity - USA
2/ Ageing US infrastructure (Financial Times, Sun 05 Aug)
Solutions – Transition Towns
3/ Towns prepare for 'peak oil' point (BBC News, Mon 06 Aug)
Peak Oil and Dentistry
4/ Peak Oil and Dentistry (Transition Network, July 2007)
Russia - Various
5/ Reports from FC Novosti
5a/ Nord Stream’s Underwater Part to Be Built within One Season (FC Novosti, Mon 06 Aug)
5b/ Sakhalin-1 Gas to Be Sold Domestically (FC Novosti, Fri 03 Aug)
5c/ RAO UES, Gazprom Close to Signing Gas Supply Agreement (FC Novosti, Wed 01 Aug)
5d/ Russia Needs $275bn to Develop Road Network (FC Novosti, Fri 27 Jul)
5e/ GAZ to Produce "People’s Car" Worth $3,000 (FC Novosti, Thu 26 Jul)
Russia in the Arctic
6a/ Russia claims North Pole (The Independent, Fri 03 Aug)
6b/ Professor Peter Wadhams: A shrewd political move for a planet of finite resources (The Independent, Fri 03 Aug)
6c/ Arctic energy (The Financial Times, Mon 06 Aug)
6d/ Russia Explorers Snub Critics in North Pole Row (Planet Ark [Reuters], Wed 08 Aug)
Kazakhstan's giant Kashagan field
7/ Development of Kazakhstan's giant Kashagan field (Energy Intelligence, Fri 03 Aug)
Natural Gas – South America
8/ Cold snap prompts Chile to seek gas deal with old foe Bolivia (Christian Science Monitor, Wed 08 Aug)
Oil Prices – 2007 V 2006
9/ Oil Prices for 2007 – comparison with 2006 (Energy Intelligence, Wed 08 Aug)
Food Prices / Biofuels
10/ Wheat prices surge to 11-year high (Financial Times, Tue 07 Aug)
July 2007
1/ Politicians fret over wrong crisis as Peak Oil looms - FEEDBACK (British National Party, July 2007)
2a/ PETROLEUM ($US/bbl) (Bloomberg, Wed 18 Jul)
2b/ Investec's Guinness sees oil price doubling (Reuters, Thu 19 Jul)
2c/ Surging oil prices darken inflation outlook (The Independent on Sunday, Sun 29 Jul)
3/ U.S. Foreclosure Filings Jump to Record in First Half (Bloomberg, Thu 12 Jul)
4/ Coal's Doubters Block New Wave Of Power Plants (Wall Street Journal, Wed 25 Jul)
5a/ Scramble for oil catches up with Exxon (MarketWatch, Thu 26 Jul)
5b/ Shell Bucks Trend With Q2 Earnings Growth (Energy Intelligence [International Oil Daily], Fri 27 Jul)
5c/ BP production drops again (AllAfrica, Tue 24 Jul)
6a/ Asia markets tumble as debt panic spreads (The Times, Fri 27 Jul)
6b/ For all practical purposes the markets are closed right now (The Oil Drum, Mon 30 Jul)
7a/ UK Energy Security (The Oil Drum: Europe, Thu 26 Jul)
7b/ Energy Trends (UK DTI, June 2007)
8/ Toiling in the Dark: Africa’s Power Crisis (NY Times, Sun 29 Jul)
9/ DUBAI: Energy shortages could scupper plans - FEEDBACK (Financial Times, Tue 24 Jul)
10/ Russian oil output to plateau until 2020 – EconMin (Reuters, Tue 24 Jul)
1/ Politicians fret over wrong crisis as Peak Oil looms (British National Party, July 2007)
2a/ Russia to Build Over 20 Nuclear Power Plants Within Decade (FC Novosti, Mon 23 Jul)
2b/ Rouble to Become World’s Reserve Currency – Medvedev (FC Novosti, Mon 23 Jul)
2c/ Gazprom to Extract Coalbed Methane (FC Novosti, Mon 23 Jul)
3a/ Santos Plans LNG Export Scheme Using CBM [Coalbed Methane] (Energy Intelligence [International Oil Daily], Thu 19 Jul)
3b/ Peabody and ConocoPhillips Enter Into Agreement to Explore Development of Midwest Coal-to-Substitute Natural Gas Facility (CNN Money, Mon 23 Jul)
4/ Falling dollar puts pressure on Opec (Financial Times, Mon 23 Jul)
5/ Sanctions fail to fuel dissent on Iran’s streets (Financial Times, Tue 24 Jul)
6/ DUBAI: Energy shortages could scupper plans (Financial Times, Tue 24 Jul)
7a/ US subprime woes start to spread (Money Week, Mon 25 Jun)
7b/ Lender Sees Mortgage Woes for ‘Good’ Risks (NY Times, Wed 25 Jul)
7c/ Credit crunch threatens sale of Cadbury’s US drinks arm (The Times, Thu 26 Jul)
8/ Coal reserves and resources - a gentle cough (The Oil Drum, Tue 24 Jul)
1/ High oil prices threaten to linger (Financial Times, Wed 18 Jul)
2a/ Bernanke promises to fight back as sub-prime loans crisis deepens (The Times, Thu 19 Jul)
2b/ Bernanke says sub-prime defaults may hit $100bn (The Times, Fri 20 Jul)
3a/ Nuclear crisis in Japan as scientists reveal quake threat to power plants (The Times, Fri 19 Jul)
3b/ Japan's six electric utilities tell Tepco they can supply power (Platts, Fri 20 Jul)
4/ Three contrasting articles, one quoting the IEA’s Medium Term OMR July 2007, two the US NPC report released last Wednesday
4a/ The oil squeeze has just begun (MSN Money, Tue 17 Jul)
4b/ Keeping Our Motor Running (CNN Money, Thu 19 Jul)
4c/ Oil and gas may run short by 2015, say industry experts (The Independent on Sunday, Sun 22 Jul)
5a/ China booms … we pay the price (The Sunday Herald [Scotland], Sun 15 Jul)
5b/ Disaster at the end of the cheap energy era [Letters] (The Herald, Mon 16 Jul)
5c/ Oil companies see profits soar … but warn production cannot meet demand (The Sunday Herald [Scotland], Sun 22 Jul)
6/ UK needs a two-child limit, says population report (The Guardian, Wed 11 Jul)
7/ Looting, panic buying - and a water shortage (The Times, Mon 23 Jul)
1a/ Oil 'could hit $95 a barrel this year' (The Guardian, Mon 16 Jul)
1b/ Cheap Gasoline in Producing Countries Will Have The Rest of the World Paying More (CIBC World Markets, Wed 18 Jul)
1c/ PETROLEUM ($US/bbl) (Bloomberg, Wed 18 Jul)
2/ International Energy Agency Medium-Term Oil Market Report – Follow Up (IEA, July 2007)
2a/ Are these the last days of the Oil Age? (The Times, Mon 16 Jul)
2b/ U.S. energy options (The Washington Times, Tue 17 Jul)
3a/ National Petroleum Council Report on Peak Oil (Energy Bulletin, Wed 18 Jul)
3b/ The National Petroleum Council Report (The Oil Drum, Wed 18 Jul)
3c/ National Petroleum Council Report Comes Up a Dry Hole (ASPO-USA / Energy Bulletin, Tue 17 Jul)
4a/ Iran, Turkey sign Europe gas deal (Arabian Business, Sat 14 Jul)
4b/ US queries wisdom of Turkish-Iranian gas deal (NTV MSNBC, Mon 16 Jul)
4c/ China, Turkmenistan sign natural gas deals (International Herald Tribune, Tue 17 Jul)
4d/ CNPC to import 30 bln cubic meters of natural gas annually from Turkmenistan (China View, Wed 18 Jul)
4e/ Debates Over Iran And Natural Gas (TurkishPress.com, Tue 17 Jul)
5a/ UN warns it cannot afford to feed the world (Financial Times, Sun 15 Jul)
5b/ Biofuel producer faces supplier friction (Financial Times, Fri 13 Jul)
6/ Lenders predict UK property crunch as rates take effect (The Times, Tue 17 Jul)
7/ Gazprom Plans China Gas Pipeline Parallel to Oil Link (Bloomberg, Tue 17 Jul)
8/ UK NBP gas prices climb further as low Norwegian flows continue (Platts, Fri 13 Jul)
9a/ PRIUS OUTDOES HUMMER IN ENVIRONMENTAL DAMAGE (Impact Lab [The Recorder], Wed 14 Mar)
9b/ Prius Still Not Sitting Pretty (The Recorder, Wed 28 Mar)
1a/ $80 a barrel prediction as oil soars again (The Guardian, Fri 13 Jul)
1b/ PETROLEUM ($US/bbl) (Bloomberg, Fri 13 Jul)
2/ A trilogy of Economic articles by Henry C. K. Liu (Asia Times, May/Jun)
2a/ Liquidity boom and looming crisis (Asia Times, Wed 09 May)
2b/ THE INTEREST RATE CONUNDRUM, Part 1 - Economics of denial (Asia Times, Wed 13 Jun)
2c/ THE INTEREST RATE CONUNDRUM, Part 2 - How currency devaluation destroys wealth (Asia Times, Thu 14 Jun)
3a/ Kuwait says has 100 bln barrel oil reserve (Forbes, Wed 11 Jul)
3b/ Kuwait plans big shake-up in oil sector (Kuwait Times, Sat 12 May)
3c/ Traditional production unfit for half of Kuwait's oil reserves (Kuwait Times, Tue 15 May)
4/ Biofuel mania ends days of cheap food (New Zealand Herald, Tue 10 Jul)
5/ Gazprom picks Total for Shtokman field (Financial Times, Thu 12 Jul)
6/ UK's N. Sea oilfields hit by gas pipe closure (Reuters, Thu 12 Jul)
7/ Fuel oil hits record highs - European 3.5% cracked fuel oil prices hit a sixth successive record high on July 10 (Platts, Wed 11 Jul)
8a/ Peak Oil: Punctuated Power (Sanders Research Associates Limited, Fri 15 June)
8b/ COAL - The Roundup (The Oil Drum: Europe, Thu 12 Jul)
9/ On Europe: Spain's property fiesta stopped in its tracks (Financial Times, Fri 13 Jul)
10/ Food Miles (Press and Journal [Aberdeen, Scotland], Sat 14 Jul)
10a/ THE 66,500 FOOD MILES THAT SHOW WE'RE OFF OUR TROLLEYS
10b/ SHOPPERS GET SOME FOOD FOR THOUGHT
10c/ 'FRESH' PRODUCE IS TOO WELL-TRAVELLED (Editorial)
11/ Let's be honest: signs in Iraq all point to oil (The Age [Australia], Mon 16 Jul)
1a/ IEA sees tight oil market, 'minimal' OPEC spare capacity in 2012 (Platts, Mon 09 Jul)
1b/ World will face oil crunch ‘in five years’ (Financial Times, Mon 09 Jul)
1c/ IEA sees oil supply crunch looming (Washington Post [Reuters], Mon 09 Jul)
1d/ IEA Medium Term Oil Market Report, July 2007 (IEA, July 2007)
2/ Fish ’n’ chip prices leap as shortages bite (Financial Times, Mon 09 Jul)
3a/ Howard Hits Iraq Oil Slick As Truth Becomes A WMD (The Orstrahyun, Thu 05 Jul)
3b/ Australia 'has Iraq oil interest' (BBC News, Thu 05 Jul)
4a/ UK's DTI revamped, renamed; Hutton picked to lead (Oil and Gas Journal, Thu 04 Jul)
4b/ North Sea output continues to drop despite record investment (The Herald [Scotland], Tue 03 Jul)
4c/ Tullow Oil cuts North Sea plans as Africa finds grow (Reuters, Wed 11 Jul)
4d/ Luton airport drops expansion plan (Financial Times, Fri 06 Jul)
5a/ Fidelity chief Bolton warns packaged loans market echoes split-cap trusts (The Times, Wed 04 Jul)
5b/ Huge increase in those forced to default on mortgages payments (The independent, Wed 11 Jul)
6a/ Horton to Report Net Loss After Orders Plunge (Bloomberg, Tue 10 Jul)
6b/ S&P fears credit crunch as mortgage crisis hits house prices (The Times [UK], Wed 11 Jul)
7/ Iran begins Azadegan oil production (Press TV, Mon 09 Jul)
8/ Prime Numbers: Pain at the Pump (Foreign Policy, July/Aug 2007)
9a/ Kuwait seems finally to be starting to come to grips with the true level of its oil reserves (Energy Intelligence, Wed 11 Jul)
9b/ Kuwait may disclose size of its oil stock (Gulf Daily News, Tue 10 Jul)
10/ Growth in Car Sales, Russia (FC Novosti, July 2007)
1/ Oil Rises to a 10-Month High on Nigeria, North Sea Supply Risks (Bloomberg, Fri 06 Jul)
2a/ Huge Sowings Ease Ethanol Crunch on US Corn (Planet Ark [Reuters], Mon 02 Jul)
2b/ Biofuels May Wipe Out UK Wheat Exports (Planet Ark [Reuters], Mon 02 Jul)
2c/ Nestlé chief fears food price inflation (Financial Times, Thu 05 Jul)
2d/ MARKETS AND INVESTING: Biofuel demand powering long-term food inflation (Financial Times, Thu 05 Jul)
3a/ European interest rates on the rise (Financial Times, Thu 05 Jul)
3b/ Cheap mortgage era ends with rate rise (The Times, Fri 06 Jul)
4/ Ration-hit Argentina admits energy crisis (Financial Times, Wed 04 Jul)
5a/ Crude breaches $74 ahead of inventories (Financial Times, Thu 05 Jul)
5b/ Modest Growth Pushes Oil Demand Well Above Supply (Energy Intelligence, Tue 03 Jul)
5c/ High oil prices are here to stay, analysts warn (Telegraph, Fri 06 Jul)
6/ Angolan oil production (Energy Intelligence, Mon 02 Jul)
7a/ Iran, Oman Gas Sale Progresses -- Some (Energy Intelligence, Wed 04 Jul)
7b/ Iran draft wording puts pipeline deal in doubt (Business Standard, Tue 03 Jul)
8a/ UK oil output shortfall raises fears of dependence on Russia (Guardian, Tue 03 Jul)
8b/ Nuclear expansion is a pipe dream, says report (Guardian, Wed 04 Jul)
8c/ Too Hot to Handle? The Future of Civil Nuclear Power (Oxford Research Group, July 2007)
8d/ Britain has slashed its reliance on Mideast oil (The Telegraph, Thu 06 Jul)
8e/ We should explore low North Sea tax (Sunday Telegraph, Sun 08 Mar)
9a/ ‘Lights Out: The Electricity Crisis, the Global Economy and What It Means to You’ (STLtoday, Sun 08 Jul)
1a/ IEA: without Iraqi oil, we'll be in deep trouble by 2015 (The Oil Drum: Europe, Thu 28 Jun)
1b/ Americans Are Gluttons For Mideast Oil (The Day [Connecticut], Sun 24 Jun)
2a/ EU pipeline project loses momentum (International Herald Tribune, Tue 26 Jun)
2b/ Turkmen leader vows to increase natural gas exports to Russia (International Herald Tribune, Tue 26 Jun)
2c/ Norway to boost natural gas exports to European Union (International Herald Tribune, Tue 26 Jun)
3a/ Energy debate must include all options (The Meath Chronicle, Wed 27 Jun)
3b/ A Royal week of Aussie sprinters, Irish first-timers, Fortune's success and a Coronation (Independent [Ireland], Sun 24 Jun)
4a/ IATA report: Fuel replaces labour as largest cost for airlines in 2006 (domain-B.com, Tue 26 Jun)
4b/ Researchers warn of 'transport poverty' (ABC News [Australia], Wed 27 Jun)
5/ Energy Alarmism: The Myths That Make Americans Worry about Oil (Cato Institute, Thu 05 Apr)
6a/ 'Paradox' as Mideast faces power shortage (Arabian Business, Tue 12 Jun)
6b/ UAE diverts 50 pct of gas meant for oil to power (Reuters, Tue 26 Jun)
7a/ Caliber becomes latest victim of US sub-prime mortgage market (The Independent, Fri 29 Jun)
7b/ BIS warns of Great Depression dangers from credit spree (Telegraph, Mon 25 Jun)
8/ For some oil companies, Venezuela is hardly the worst option (International Herald Tribune, Thu 28 Jun)
9/ The Great Corn Con - The Senate's preposterous new ethanol bill (Slate, Tue 26 Jun)
10/ The Problem's Not Peak Oil, It's Politics (BusinessWeek, Thu 28 Jun)
11/ Iran in crisis after cleric's murder (The Australian [The Sunday Times], Mon 02 Jul)
June 2007
1/ UK: All Party Parliamentary Group on Peak Oil and Gas Launched, London, 26th June (ODAC/PowerSwitch, Wed 27 Jun)
2a/ Exxon boss calls end of non-OPEC growth by 2010 (David Strahan, Fri 22 Jun)
2b/ Energy crisis cannot be solved by renewables, oil chiefs say (The Times, Mon 25 Jun)
2c/ High hopes and hard truths dictate future [CEO of Royal Dutch Shell] (The Times, Mon 25 Jun)
2d/ Securing The Future – An Oil Company Perspective [Tony Hayward, BP CEO] (Middle East Economic Survey, Mon 25 Jun)
3a/ Britain reduces global trade gap to its smallest in nearly two years (The Times, Wed 13 Jun)
3b/ SEC opens Bear hedge fund probe (Financial Times, Mon 25 Jun)
4a/ Personal debt hits 10-year high (The Independent, Mon 25 Jun)
4b/ New risks posed by the rising cost of borrowing (The Times, Mon 25 Jun)
5a/ Ageing Europe confronts demographic time bomb (The Times, Fri 22 Jun)
5b/ Cologne and antiseptic: Russia's killer drinks (The Guardian, Fri 15 Jun)
5c/ Planet of the slums: UN warns urban populations set to double (The Independent, Wed 27 Jun)
6a/ Biofuels to blame as beer prices soar 40 per cent in Germany (The Independent, Sun 24 Jun)
6b/ A milestone on the road to green fuel [UK wheat to ethanol] (The Independent, Wed 27 Jun)
7a/ Lehman Raises Oil Price Forecast on Lower Supplies, High Demand (Bloomberg, Fri 22 Jun)
7b/ Oil Price Surge a Risk as Non-OPEC Production Peaks, BIS Says (Bloomberg, Sun 24 Jun)
8/ Oil Export Duty in Russia to Be Raised to $223-$224 from August 1 (FC Novosti, Mon 25 Jun)
9/ San Francisco Bans Bottled Water for City Staff (Planet Ark [Reuters], Tue 26 Jun)
10/ Resource nationalism is on the march (Energy Intelligence, Wed 27 Jun)
11/ OPEC releases its 2007 World Oil Outlook (OPEC, Tue 26 Jun)
1a/ Science Panel Finds Fault With Estimates of [US] Coal Supply (NY Times, Fri 21 Jun)
1b/ Major Boost Needed in Federal Support for Coal R&D ([US] National Academy of Sciences, Wed 20 Jun)
2/ Australia: Dr Roger Bezdek in Australia, 19-28 June 2007 (ASPO-Australia, June 2007)
3a/ Fire sale at Bear Stearns alarms Wall Street as hedge funds plunge (The Independent, Thu 21 Jun)
3b/ Hamish McRae: The global squeeze on monetary conditions may not be over quickly (The Independent, Thu 21 Jun)
4/ Rate Rise Pushes Housing, Economy to `Blood Bath' (Bloomberg, Wed 20 Jun)
5/ Oil Is Not Well (The American Spectator, Thu 07 Jun)
6a/ Now Russia tries to hit Exxon deal (Telegraph, Fri 21 Jun)
6b/ Gazprom bid to cut off China gas (BBC News, Tue 19 Jun)
7a/ BP sells Siberia stake to Gazprom (BBC News, Fri 22 Jun)
7b/ Kremlin marches on with Kovykta buy-out (Financial Times, Fri 22 Jun)
7c/ Gazprom takes over BP project (IHT, Fri 22 Jun)
8/ Russia to reform national economy to get rid of oil dependence [anti-ODAC propaganda] (Pravda, Fri 22 Jun)
9/ US must warm to energy efficiency (Financial Times, Thu 21 Jun)
10/ Another CEO goes public on PO being passed with strong recommendation (ATI Petroleum Press Release, Fri 22 Jun)
1a/ No bears at the IEA (Platts [Platts oil blog: The Barrel], Fri 15 Jun)
1b/ US requires gasoline imports to avoid pressure on prices (Platts podcast, Fri 15 Jun)
2a/ Natural gas - Russia and the EU. Russia & the EU: Gas unites, politics divide (Platts, Mon 11 Jun)
2b/ LNG imports likely to raise US natural gas prices: risk manager (Platts, Tue 12 Jun)
3/ UK's Tullow uncovers oil in Ghana (BBC News, Mon 18 Jun)
4a/ Lies, damned lies and BP statistics (The Oil Drum: Europe, Mon 18 Jun)
4b/ Pay Attention To the Oil Price Naysayers (Yahoo Finance, Wed 20 Jun)
5/ Senate OKs plan to sue OPEC for price-fixing (Washington Post, Tue 19 Jun)
1/ World oil supplies are set to run out faster than expected, warn scientists (The Independent, Thu 14 Jun)
2a/ Are global market bubbles set to blow? (BBC News, Thu 14 Jun)
2b/ We're all doomed? (BBC News [Robert Peston, BBC's business editor], Wed 13 Jun)
3a/ Food prices defy inflation [short video] (BBC News, June 2007)
3b/ Floods and drought send price of wheat soaring (Financial Times, Fri 15 Jun)
4a/ BG urges different oil, gas taxation off UK (Oil and Gas Journal, Thu 14 Jun)
4b/ Shell and ExxonMobil scale down North Sea presence (Financial Times, Fri 15 Jun)
4c/ North Sea running dry says BP (ThisIsMoney, Wed 13 Jun)
4d/ SHOCK AS SHELL PUTS OIL ASSETS UP FOR SALE (Aberdeen Press and Journal, Fri 15 Jun)
5/ Petrol problems about peak oil, not snake oil (The Age [Australia], Thu 14 Jun)
6/ Russia
6a/ New Low Cost Air Carrier Set Up in Russia (FC Novosti, Fri 15 Jun)
6b/ Half of Gas from Shtokman Field to Be Liquefied (FC Novosti, Fri 15 Jun)
6c/ Russian Gas Supplies to China May Be Postponed (FC Novosti, Wed 13 Jun)
7/ Oil demand ‘rising faster than expected’ (Financial Times, Tue 12 Jun)
8/ Boeing forecasts near tripling of air traffic (Financial Times, Wed 13 Jun)
1/ Oilwatch Monthly - June 2007 (Rembrandt Koppelaar, The Oildrum & ASPO Netherlands, June 2007)
2/ Ghost Towns Appear in Spain as Decade-Long Boom Ends (Update2) (Bloomberg, Wed 06 Jun)
3a/ Hubbert's Peak, The Question of Coal, and Climate Change (Dave Rutledge, California Institute of Technology, May 2007)
3b/ Carbon Capture Makes US Coal Growth Uncertain (Planet Ark, Tue 05 Jun)
4a/ Ethanol Boom Won't Threaten Food Supply – Analysts (Planet Ark, Tue 05 Jun)
4b/ Rising pork prices in China signal pricier times worldwide (International Herald Tribune, Fri 08 Jun)
4c/ Biofuels blunder - Massive Diversion of U.S. Grain to Fuel Cars is Raising World Food Prices, Risking Political Instability (Lester R. Brown, Earth Policy Institute, Wed 13 Jun)
5/ Economic View: Self-interest will do more to cut carbon emissions than all the low-energy light bulbs in the world (The Independent, Sun 03 Jun)
6/ Milk price soars as drought hits dairy industry (The Times, Mon 11 Jun)
7a/ Report: China considers halting coal-to-oil projects due to energy, expense worries (International Herald Tribune, Sun 10 Jun)
7b/ Coal-to-liquids - an alternative oil supply? (IEA Open Energy Technology Bulletin, Tue 22 May)
8/ Turkey poses a new danger in Iraq (International Herald Tribune, Fri 08 Jun)
9/ Drive on Biofuels Risks Oil Price Surge – Feedback (Financial Times / Dr Mamdouh Salameh, Wed 06 Jun)
1/ Subsea industry suffers shortage as skills pool shrinks (The Herald, Fri 01 Jun)
2/ Gazprom woes could hurt Putin's drive for energy dominance (International Herald Tribune, Mon 04 Jun)
3/ High oil price, supply fears help turn coal to fuel (Khaleej Times [Reuters], Mon 04 Jun)
4/ Druzhba Pipeline Abandoned (FC Novosti, Fri 01 Jun)
5a/ Cyclone hits Gulf state of Oman (BBC News, Wed 06 Jun)
5b/ Cyclone Gonu Thread 3--Omani Landfall (The Oil Drum, Wed 06 Jun)
6/ Wheat prices surge on Romania drought [Oil stocks] (Financial Times, Tue 05 Jun)
7a/ Energy Security and Uranium Reserves (Oxford Research Group, July 2006)
7b/ NATIONAL NEWS: Nuclear plants will not attract investors, say academics (Financial Times, Wed 06 Jun)
8/ Drive on biofuels risks oil price surge (Financial Times, Wed 06 Jun)
9/ The Oil Depletion Protocol: An Update (Global Public Media [Richard Heinberg's Museletter], Mon 04 Jun)
10/ Azerbaijan could produce 50 Bcm/year of gas by 2016: Bryza (Platts, Wed 06 Jun)
1/ Giant Oil Fields - The Highway to Oil: Giant Oil Fields and their Importance for Future Oil Production (ODAC, Sun 27 May)
2a/ Saudi Electricity says has Aramco support (Arabian Business, Thu 31 May)
2b/ Power outage hits Qatar (Arabian Business, Thu 31 May)
2c/ Kuwait must spend $27bn on power (Arabian Business, Tue 29 May)
3/ Is the story of ‘massive untapped oil reserves’ fact or fictions? [Iraqi oil reserves] (uruknet.info, Wed 30 May)
4/ Report: China finds major gas field in Sichuan (Spero News, Mon 28 May)
5/ KNOC confirms huge oil field off Russia's Kamchatka peninsula (Platts, Thu 31 May)
6/ Gas Market Adopts Limits (Kommersant, Thu 31 May)
7a/ Russia in talks to build China gas pipeline (Reuters AlterNet, Thu 31 May)
7b/ Pipeline to China Would Give Turkmenistan Options (Institute for War and Peace, Fri 11 May)
7c/ Natural Gas: Uzbekistan Tilts to China (Business Week [Transitions Online], Tue 29 May)
8a/ Chile Natural Gas Shortage May Worsen in 2007, GasAtacama Says (Bloomberg, Tue 29 May)
8b/ Argentina petchems skirt gas shortages with costlier contracts (Platts, Thu 31 May)
9a/ Russian regulators postpone decision on BP's license for Kovykta gas field (IHT, Fri 01 Jun)
9b/ Kovykta Project (TNK-BP, 2007)
9c/ Oil groups can still gain from a new era in Russia (Financial Times, Thu 31 May)
10/ Rate rises and high lending take toll on property market [UK] (The Independent, Fri 01 Jun)
May 2007
1/ Our blind faith in oil growth could bring the economy crashing down (The Guardian, Tue 29 May)
2a/ Britain Maps Out Clean, Secure Energy Future (Planet Ark [Reuters], Thu 24 May)
2b/ Energy white paper: meeting the energy challenge (UK Dept of Trade and Industry, May 2007)
2c/ Energy white paper: chapter 4 - oil, gas and coal (UK Dept of Trade and Industry, May 2007)
3/ 60 percent of oil and gas execs believe trend of declining reserves is irreversible (Energy Bulletin [PR Newswire/KPMG], Fri 25 May)
4/ Stage set for $US80 oil prices (Sydney Morning Herald, Fri 25 May)
5a/ Breaking: housing prices collapse [USA] (Daily Kos, Thu 24 May)
5b/ Sales of Existing Homes Fell in April (NY Times, Sat 26 May)
6a/ Russia tries to burn BP (The Sunday Times, Sun 27 May)
6b/ BP loses appeal against Russian oil field seizure (The Times, Mon 28 May)
7a/ Interesting Times in Kuwait (ODAC contact, Mon 28 May)
7b/ Dubai : City of Super-towers - Dubai to have at least six supertowers by 2015 (Gulf News, Mon 28 May)
7c/ Emirates poised to become largest long-haul carrier (Gulf News, Mon 28 May)
7d/ RTA on long drive with $12b project [Roads and Transport Authority - Dubai] (Khaleej Times, Wed 30 May)
8a/ Russia Faces Shortage of Workforce (FC Novosti, Thu 24 May)
8b/ No Unregistered Oil Wells Left (FC Novosti, Tue 29 May)
9/ Growing biofuels demand raises food prices (Financial Times, Sun 27 May)
10/ So, we'd be able to take OPEC to court — what a big help (Houston Chronicle, Fri 25 May)
11a/ Organic movement faces split over air-freighted food (The Independent, Tue 29 May)
11b/ Dominic Lawson: A lesson in how to dig yourself into a hole (The Independent, Tue 29 May)
12/ Ancient forest threatened by airport expansion bid [UK] (The Independent, Tue 29 May)
13/ Easterners could freeze in the dark [Canada] (Globe and Mail, Mon 28 May)
14/ With measure of caution, Europe joins biofuel gold rush (International Herald Tribune, Mon 28 May)
1/ A Gas Crisis 30 Years in the Making (The Washington Post, Sun 27 May)
2/ UK paves way for new nuclear plants (Financial Times, WED 23 May)
3/ BP scraps green energy plan (The Herald, Thu 24 may)
4/ Austrian deal will extend Gazprom grip on European energy market (The Times, Fri 25 May)
5/ UAE airport spend to hit $19bn (Arabian Business, Wed 23 May)
6/ Petrol to hit £1 a litre within weeks as oil supply strains show (The Guardian, Fri 25 May)
7/ Battle for the Barrels [new book - feedback] (Duncan Clarke, Feb 2007)
1a/ Darling: lights could go out if power plants are not built [UK] (The Herald, Sat 19 May)
1b/ Fears over looming energy crisis in UK (The Sunday Times, Sun 20 May)
1c/ ‘No chance of nuclear power in Scotland’ (The Herald, Mon 21 May)
2a/ EU bid to wean itself off Russian gas: Nabucco pipeline (Yahoo News, Fri 18 May)
2b/ Kazakh Gas Will Cost Gazprom $160 per 1,000 cu m (FC Novosti, Tue 15 May)
3a/ Car Imports in Russia Up 65% to 289,900 in 1Q07 (FC Novosti, Mon 14 May)
3b/ Foreign Cars Sales in Russia Up 72% in January-April (FC Novosti, Thu 10 May)
4/ Drought puts pressure on electricity (The Age [Melbourne], Sat 19 May)
5/ Mediterranean gasoline prices rise as US driving season approaches (Platts, Mon 14 May)
6a/ The Sands of Time – How Venezuela and Canada are Extending the Life of the World’s Petroleum Resources (OPEC Bulletin, March 2007)
6b/ 'America's energy security blanket' (Financial Times, Mon 21 May)
7/ 'Era of cheap energy is over,' says Buckee (Calgary Herald, Thu 10 May)
8a/ Financial bubble - who will say that the emperor is naked? (The Oil Drum: Europe, Sun 20 May)
8b/ Bubbles are everywhere (The Sunday Times, Sun 20 May)
9/ Battle for the Barrels [new book] (Duncan Clarke, Feb 2007)
10/ Petroleum Resources Of The Western Desert of Iraq [not 100B barrels] (Middle East Economic Survey, Mon 21 May)
11a/ OPEC must add more oil to the market to avoid record prices – CGES (Forbes, Mon 21 May)
11b/ Iranian Energy Sector In Crisis, Says CGES (Middle East Economic Survey, Mon 21 May)
1a/ Central Asia: Russian, Turkmen, Kazakh Leaders Agree On Caspian Pipeline (RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Sat 12 May)
1b/ Russia: Energy Summit Gives Putin New Trump Card (RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty, Wed 16 May)
2/ Meeting the food security challenge through organic agriculture (FAO Newsroom, Thu 03 May)
3a/ Iran Gasoline Price Hikes, Rationing System Scheduled In May (Middle East Economic Survey, Mon 07 May)
3b/ Interesting headlines from MEES newsletter (Middle East Economic Survey, Mon 07 May)
4a/ Coalition to invest billions to save energy (International Herald Tribune, Wed 16 may)
4b/ Britain to Set Out Radical Energy, Planning Revamp (Planet Ark, Fri 18 May)
5/ UES Wants More Gas (FC Novosti, Tue 15 May)
6a/ Hamish McRae: Let us hope a 7 per cent interest rate is a bridge too far (The Independent, Thu 17 May)
6b/ Bernanke joins critics of ‘high-risk’ bank lending (The Times, Fri 18 May)
7a/ 350th North Sea field approved [UK] (Sustainable Energy Policy Network (SEPN) newsletter, April 2007)
7b/ Energy statistics (Sustainable Energy Policy Network (SEPN) newsletter, April 2007)
8/ Peak Oil and the British National Party (BNP, May 2007)
1/ Coal’s Future in Doubt (Global Public Media [MuseLetter], Wed 09 May)
2/ Congress Told FAA Lacks Road Map For NextGen (AVWeb, Wed 09 May)
3/ China's Bohai Bay may hold 146 bil barrels oil reserves: report (Platts, Thu 10 May)
4a/ Saudi to boost gas reserves by 40% (Arabian Business, Wed 09 May)
4b/ Saudis to step up natural gas output (The Financial Times, Thu 10 May)
5/ Easy profits herald global oil crunch (The Financial Times, Thu 10 May)
6/ Companies eye Iran’s gas fields (The Financial Times, Thu 10 May)
7a/ Kuwait’s Oil Minister should “Mind His Ps & Qs” (Proven, Probable & Possible – Quantity & Quality) (ODAC, Tue 15 May)
7b/ The Search For Solid Ground On Oil Reserves (Petroleum Intelligence Weekly, Mon 14 May)
8/ The AAPG Oil Reserves Conference, Nov 2006 - How Much Is Left? (ODAC, Fri 11 May)
9a/ Banks are heading for disaster, says Bolton (The Times, Wed 16 May)
9b/ Housing costs taking their toll of society (The Times, Fri 11 May)
10/ What Stern Got Wrong (Prospect, May 2007)
1/ IEA and EIA Forecast UK To Be Net Oil Importer for 2007 (ODAC, Wed 09 May)
2/ Automobile Manufacturing in Russia Up 15.6% to 372,000 in 1Q07 (FC Novosti, Mon 07 May)
3/ Silence on geothermal deafening (Toronto Star, Mon 07 May)
4/ Peak Oil or Dependence on Russian Gas – Which is more important for Turkish Public? (Turkish Weekly, Mon 07 May)
5/ Nuclear power no cure for global warming (Arabian Business [Reuters], Thu 03 May)
6/ Green groups dismayed as flights soar to record high (The Independent, Wed 09 May)
7/ Taiwan, not Texas, may squeeze summer gasoline (Reuters, Wed 09 May)
8/ Infrastructure projects in UAE exceed $300b (Khaleej Times, Wed 09 May)
9/ U.S.’s thirst for liquid natural gas growing (MSNBC, Tue 08 May)
10/ Exxon Mobil Says Peak Oil Unlikely in the Next 25 Years – Feedback (Dr Mamdouh Salameh, Mon 07 May)
1a/ Natural Gas Market Review 2007 -- Security in a globalising market to 2015 [IEA new book] (International Energy Agency, Thu 03 Apr)
1b/ IEA gives warning of global gas shortage (The Independent, Fri 04 May)
2/ Power station harnesses Sun's rays (BBC News, We 02 May)
3/ Exxon Mobil Says Peak Oil Unlikely in the Next 25 Years (Daily Reckoning, Thu 03 May)
4/ European Summer Electricity Prices May Reach Records (Update1) (Bloomberg, Thu 03 May)
5/ U.K. Natural Gas Rises on Lower Imports, Britannia Maintenance (Bloomberg, Thu 03 May)
6a/ The Peak Oil Crisis: Week Twelve (Falls Church News-Press, Thu 03 May)
6b/ Gasoline crack hits 20 month high (Platts, Wed 02 May)
7/ Event: USA, 2007 Houston World Oil Conference, Houston, Texas, 17-20 October 2007
8a/ PetroChina shares spurt on oil find (Financial Times, Fri 04 May)
8b/ China claims major oil field find (BBC News, Fri 04 May)
9/ OTC: Operators told to prepare for storm season (Oil and Gas Journal, Wed 02 May)
10/ It isn't over yet for Lord Browne [Lord Browne and Peak Oil] (The Independent on Sunday [UK], Sun 06 May)
11/ Biofuels: The great green con (The Independent on Sunday [UK], Sun 06 May)
1/ Gas shortage warning as Government fails to act on storage (The Times, Mon 30 Apr)
2/ Icebergs Threaten Vast Russian Gas Project (Planet Ark (Reuters], Mon 30 Apr)
3/ U.S. Gasoline Stocks (Matt Simmons and Peak Oil Review, Mon 30 Apr)
4/ Xinjiang kicks off largest coal mine (China Daily, Sun 29 Apr)
5/ Event - UK: Dealing with Peak Oil & Climate Change, Covent Garden, London, Saturday 12 May 2007
6a/ East Siberia-Pacific Ocean Pipeline Will Have Enough Oil – Transneft Chairman (FC Novosti, Wed 02 May)
6b/ Russia oil export duty to rise $44 to $200 per ton June 1 (RIA Novosti, Wed 02 May)
7/ A Brief Overview of What the ‘Oil’ In Peak Oil Refers To (ODAC, Wed 02 May)
8/ OTC: Simmons links aging rig fleet, peak-oil concern (Oil and Gas Journal, Mon 30 Apr)
9/ Carmakers see US April sales slip (BBC News, Tue 01 May)
April 2007
1/ Pickens: $80 a barrel this year (CNN Money [Reuters], Tue 24 Apr)
2a/ Spain hit by property crash fears (BBC News, Wed 25 Apr)
2b/ As Spain falters, is the world's property boom coming to an end? (The Independent, Thu 26 Apr)
2c/ Rate rises could spark housing crash, says Nationwide (The Independent, Fri 27 Apr)
3/ Alberta's oil boom is already over (Toronto Star, Wed 25 Apr)
4a/ Non-OPEC oil output seen peaking by 2015 –WoodMac (Reuters UK, Tue 24 Apr)
4b/ Watch Frank Harris in this pre-recorded video Access to Gas, the LNG Industry's Big Challenge (Wood Mackenzie, April 2007)
5/ Canada to Ban Incandescent Light Bulbs by 2012 (Planet Ark, Thu 26 Apr)
6a/ Moscow backs Lukoil Iraq project (Financial Times, Tue 24 Apr)
6b/ Another 100 billion barrels of oil found in Iraq? (The Oil Drum, Sun 22 Apr)
7/ ANALYSIS - Mumbai shortages highlight India power crunch (Reuters, Thu 26 Apr)
8/ Egypt weighs domestic energy needs as export demands grow (Financial Times, Tue 17 Apr)
9/ The Honeymoon's Over for Bush and the Saudis (The Washington Post, Sun 29 Apr)
10/ Norwegian authorities fear steep crude decline (Energy Bulletin, Mon 23 Apr)
1a/ UK economy 'skating on thin ice' (BBC News, Mon 23 Apr)
1b/ UK economy is 'skating on thin ice', says report (The Independent, Mon 23 Apr)
2a/ Russia’s Energy Sector Requires Investment of $542 Bln by 2020 (FC Novosti, Mon 23 Apr)
2b/ LUKoil Ready to Begin Qurna Project in Iraq (FC Novosti, Wed 25 Apr)
3/ Letters: Drought in Australia - Thinking the unthinkable in drought-stricken Australia (The Independent, Tue 24 Apr)
4/ LNG15: Industry must clear obstacles to new supply (Oil and Gas Journal, Tue 24 Apr)
5/ UKOOA replaced by wider-range trade body (Oil and Gas Journal, Tue 24 Apr)
6/ A green and winding road ahead (Financial Times, Tue 24 Apr)
7a/ Iraq may hold twice as much oil (Financial Times, Wed 18 Apr)
7b/ A warning over good news on Iraqi oil 'wealth' (Financial Times, Tue 24 Apr)
8/ US cautions Austrian oil giant over gas deal with Iran (National Council of Resistance of Iran - Foreign Affairs Committee, Tue 24 Apr)
9/ FACTBOX-The Strait of Hormuz, Iran and the risk to oil (Reuters AlterNet, Fri 30 Mar)
10/ Russia to Delay Construction of Pacific Pipeline Due to Oil Shortages (MosNews, Wed 11 Apr)
1a/ Threat to food crops as Australia prepares to turn off farmers’ water (The Times, Fri 20 Apr)
1b/ Australia's epic drought: The situation is grim (The Independent, Fri 20 Apr)
2/ British Gas Sees Billions in Green Energy (Planet Ark [Reuters], Fri 20 Apr)
3/ Peaking of world oil production: Recent forecasts (World Oil, Apr 2007)
4a/ Gasoline price rises as supply falls (Oil and Gas Journal, Thu 19 Apr)
4b/ The Peak Oil Crisis: Have the Troubles Begun? (Falls Church News-Press, Thu 19 Apr)
5/ Coal imports hit new high (China Daily, Thu 19 Apr)
6a/ East Siberia May Produce 25-50 Mln Metric Tons of Oil Annually (FC Novosti, Fri 20 Apr)
6b/ 2nd Stage of East Siberian-Pacific Ocean Pipeline May Be Postponed (FC Novosti, Wed 11 Apr)
6c/ Oil and Gas Experts Pin Their Hopes on West Siberia (FC Novosti, Tue 10 Apr)
6d/ Russians Get Rid of Weakening Dollar (FC Novosti, Mon 09 Apr)
7/ China: Half of natural gas imported by '20 (United Press International, Fri 20 Apr)
1/ Dash for green fuel pushes up price of meat in US (The Times [UK], Thu 12 Apr)
2/ Pakistan likely to face major gas shortfall (Khaleej Times, Mon 09 Apr)
3/ Shell to raise Nigeria oil production (Financial Times, Thu 05 Apr)
4/ UK gasoline sales up in '06 after long slide (Oil and Gas Journal, Tue Apr 10)
5/ Oil and Gas Reserves Shrinking (The Moscow Times [Reuters], Mon 09 Apr)
6/ Oil Enforcement Agency (Freedom From Oil, 2006)
7a/ Update from the Middle East (contact in the ME, Mon 16 Apr)
7b/ Does Saudi Arabia Have the United States Over a Barrel? (The Globalist, 29 Apr 2004)
8a/ Car Production in Russia Up 13.7% to 289,000 in 1Q07 (FC Novosti, Wed 18 Apr)
8b/ Russian Oil Production Up 4.2%, Gas Output Up 0.3% (FC Novosti, Wed 18 Apr)
8c/ Russia to Import Petrol Tax Free (FC Novosti, Wed 18 Apr)
8d/ Russia to Export Floating Nuclear Thermal Power Plants (FC Novosti, Tue 17 Apr)
8e/ Gas Production to Begin at Beregovoye Deposit in April (FC Novosti, Fri 13 Apr)
9/ Oil chiefs slammed over dwindling supplies (Adelaide Now, Tue 17 Apr)
10/ Senators Seek to Cut US Gasoline Use, Save Energy (Planet Ark [Reuters], Wed 18 Apr)
11/ Iranian LNG considered vital for future European gas supply (MarketWatch, Thu 15 Mar)
12/ Rising costs threaten global LNG growth –industry (Reuters UK, Wed 14 Mar)
1a/ Gas crunch likely as Mideast races to meet local needs (Gulf News [Reuters], Sat 07 Apr)
1b/ Burj Dubai sets world record (Arabian Business, Sun 08 Apr)
1c/ Emirates Road to be expanded to 12 lanes (Arabian Business, Sat 07 Apr)
2/ ‘Gas Opec’ least of consumers’ worries (Gulf Times, Sun 08 Apr)
3/ UK gas price weakness likely to continue to decade-end: Citigroup (Platts, Wed 28 Mar)
4/ For the Oil Companies, Public Rhetoric = Big Profits [anti-Peak Oil article] (Energy Tribune, Mon 09 Apr)
1/ Iran factor fails to put a lid on energy - Collection of other issues conspiring to support higher prices for commodity (Globe and Mail, Thu 04 Apr)
2/ How Biofuels Could Starve the Poor (Foreign Affaris [Council on Foreign Relations], May/June 2007)
3/ 'Strong Possibility' Gas [petrol] Will Rise to $4 (ABC News, Wed 04 Apr)
4a/ Energy Group Releases Report - Peak Coal by 2025 (ODAC Bulletin Board, Thu 05 Apr)
4b/ No Time to Lose (Energy and Capital, Fri 06 Apr)
4c/ Peak Coal and Mountaintop Removal (Conserve, Thu 05 Apr)
5a/ Gazprom to start Shtokman pipeline supply in 2013, LNG in 2014 (Platts, Wed 04 Apr)
5b/ Gazprom, Total Discuss Cooperation Within Shtokman Project (FC Novosti, Wed 04 Apr)
6/ Investment in Russia’s Energy Sector May Reach $420 Bln by 2020 [coal, nuclear expansion] (FC Novosti, Fri 06 Apr)
7/ Plastics are on the run in San Francisco, the nation’s anti-petroleum capital (Culture Change, Thu 29 Mar)
8a/ Total, Shell Chief Executives Say `Easy Oil' Is Gone (Bloomberg, Thu 08 Apr)
8b/ Costs Threaten Total-Petronas Iran LNG Project (Rigzone [Dow Jones Newswires], Thu 05 Apr)
9/ Mexico Tries To Save Big, Fading Oil Field (Rigzone [Wall Street Journal via Dow Jones Newswires], Thu 05 Apr)
1a/ Greed could bring America’s housing sector to grief (The Times [UK], Mon 02 Apr)
1b/ US mortgage lender New Century files for bankruptcy (The Independent, Tue 03 Apr)
2/ Shell 2006 reserves show shift from oil to gas (Reuters, Mon 02 Apr)
3/ Oil shocks aren't what they used to be (International Herald Tribune, Wed 30 Mar)
4/ Oil, climate change threaten food supply: B.C. report (Vancouver Sun, Mon 02 Apr)
5/ Peak Oil: The End of the Modeling Phase (samsambakhtiari.com, Mar 2007)
6a/ Russia to Implement Sakhalin-3 Project Jointly with China (FC Novosti, Fri 30 Mar)
6b/ Thirty-seven Oil and Gas Fields Found in Russia in 2006 (FC Novosti, Thu 29 Mar)
7/ Natural gas supply shortfall leads to power plant resource waste – expert (Interfax China, Tue 03 Apr)
8/ Qatargas LNG ventures advance talks to divert cargoes to Japan (Platts, Mon 02 Apr)
9/ Government spending to boost Saudi Arabia GDP (Gulf News, Sun 01 Apr)
10/ Big Oil spends more, only some see 2007 output up (Reuters, Fri 30 Mar)
11/ Warning of bad hurricane season (BBC News, Tue 03 Apr)
12/ Britons' wealth 'relies on homes' (BBC News, Tue 03 Apr)
13/ Near-Term Uranium Market Could Get ‘Very Ugly’ (Seeking Alpha, Mon 02 Apr)
14a/ World oil production to peak in 15-25 years, AAPG told (Oil and Gas Journal, Wed 04 Apr)
14b/ Oil peak predicted for year 2020 - Petroleum experts present their findings at gathering (Long Beach Press-Telegram [California], Wed 04 Apr)
15/ Going "Green" - thinking beyond Peak Oil! (British National party, Fri 09 Mar)
1/ Turning Off the Taps - Is Russia About To Cap Its Oil Production? (Russia Profile, Fri 30 Mar)
2/ Iran: We will know soon… (Global Public Media [Richard Heinberg], Tue 27 Apr)
3/ Labour and Skills Crisis Could Stall Oil and Gas Investment Boom (Booz Allen Hamilton, 24 Aug 2006)
4/ World Oil Production Close To Peak (Science Daily, Fri 30 Mar)
5/ Shell Oil exec urges policy change (Montgomery Advertiser, Fri 16 Mar)
6/ New Book: The Last Oil Shock: A Survival Guide to the Imminent Extinction of Petroleum Man
7/ Branch of US Government Releases Report On Peak Oil (ODAC Bulletin Board, Sat 31 Mar)
March 2007
1/ Central asia: it's a gas (The Guardian, Mon 26 Mar)
2/ Headlines from last week’s Petroleum Intelligence Weekly (Google News, Sat 24 Mar)
3/ India grapples with energy issues (Asia Times, Sat 24 Mar)
4a/ Dubai Heading for Property Bubble Crash? (Barry G. Claverhouse, Mon 26 Mar)
4b/ New US home sales see fresh fall (BBC News, Tue 27 Mar)
5a/ OPEC Dictates Higher Prices, Scarcity as Crude Rises (Bloomberg, Mon 26 Mar)
5b/ Iran's military warns U.S. against any attack (Reuters Canada, Mon 26 Mar)
6/ Russian Partners to Cover 10%-15% of British Centrica’s Requirements (FC Novosti, Tue 20 Mar)
7a/ Chinese President Hu Holds Energy Talks With Putin (Bloomberg, Mon 26 Mar)
7b/ Not Enough Oil for Siberia-Pacific Pipeline (FC Novosti, Wed 14 Mar)
7c/ Russian agencies at odds on East Siberia gas plan, Kovykta:report (Platts, Fri 23 Mar)
8/ Ford to Annually Produce Over One Million Cars in Russia (FC Novosti, Wed 14 Mar)
9/ China car firms gear up for booming sales (BBC News, Sun 25 Mar)
10/ Major gas producers agree to set up export cartel: report (Platts, Mon 19 Mar)
1/ Natural Gas Consumption in EU25 in 2006 (Eurogas, Mon 26 Feb)
2/ Claude Mandil’s Presentation at International Petroleum Week, Feb 2007 (IEA, Mon 12 Feb)
3/ Mortgage meltdown (Energy Bulletin, Sun 25 Mar)
4/ Giant oil fields and their importance for future oil production [PhD Thesis] (Energy Bulletin, Fri 23 Mar)
5/ UAE has the fifth largest natural gas reserves in the world (Al Bawaba [Jordan], Sun 25 Mar)
6/ The race to 100 mpg (CNN, Thu 15 Mar)
7/ EU Biodiesel Slumps Despite Global Warming Fear (Planet Ark [Reuters], Mon 26 Mar)
8/ CORN CAN'T SOLVE OUR PROBLEM (The Washington Post, Sun 25 Mar)
9/ T. Boone Pickens to discuss peak oil concerns with Midland audience (MyWestTexas, Sun 25 Mar)
10/ Canada ranked fifth in ability to increase oil production (Financial Post [Canada], Fri 23 Mar)
1/ Burning the Furniture (Global Public Media [Richard Heinberg], Thu 22 Mar)
2/ Iran yet to finish UAE gas pipeline (Arabian Business, Sun 11 Mar)
3/ UK Gas prices
3a/ Pressure Mounts on LNG? [UK gas imports] (McCloskey’s UK Powerfocus)
3b/ UK gas consumption plummets (UK Dept of Trade and Industry statistics, 04 Jan 2007)
3c/ Many UK manufacturing jobs lost in 2006 (Andrew Mackenzie, Oct 2006)
4/ The UK Chancellor’s Speech - UK oil and gas revenues (BBC website, Wed 21 Mar)
5/ Premier targets the Middle East (The Times [UK], Thu 22 Mar)
1/ Oil companies running hard to stand still (The Age [Australia], Fri 16 Mar)
2/ Wasteful Britons cause green risk by dumping 6.7m tonnes of food a year (The Times, Fri 16 Mar)
3/ An ODAC News reader from the UK writes (Fri 16 Mar)
3a/ And from that (virtual) farm he made a pile, e-i-e-i-o [Magus Linklater] (The Times, Wed 14 Mar)
3b/ Fiddling while Rome runs out of combustibles [Letters] (The Times, Tue 13 Mar)
4/ BLOOD AND OIL (The Economist, Thu 15 Mar)
5/ The Big Crew Change: Turnover in the Oil Workforce (The Oil Drum: Europe, Fri 16 Mar)
6/ Gazprom Ponders New Forms of Work with Foreigners (FC Novosti, Fri 16 Mar)
7/ Russians Prefer Foreign Cars (FC Novosti, Fri 16 Mar)
1/ ODAC: UK was net oil importer in 2006 (Oil and Gas Journal, Tue 13 Mar)
2a/ US Housing Sickness: How Virulent, How Contagious? (CIBC World Markets Inc., Tue 13 Mar)
2b/ Missed home payments hit markets (BBC News, Tue 13 Mar)
2c/ World’s share dealers take fright over US loans crisis (The Times [UK], Thu 15 Mar)
2d/ Sub-prime saga could prove very nasty [Business editorial] (The Times, Thu 15 Mar)
3/ White House seeks to cut geothermal research funds (Reuters, Tue 13 Mar)
4/ The Precarious Future of Coal (MIT Technology Review, Wed 14 Mar)
5/ BP says oil and gas recovery crucial (Arabian Business, Wed 14 Mar)
6/ [US] Army Foresees Natural Gas Crisis (DefenseTech, Wed 14 Mar)
7/ Kuwait looking to natural gas, nuclear options (Gulf Times, Thu 15 Mar)
8/ Labour crisis could stall oil and gas boom (Arabian Business, Wed 14 Mar)
9/ UK Seminar: Oil and the World Economy, CGES, London, 21 March 2007
1/ Ethanol-driven feed costs cut U.S. meat output: USDA (Yahoo! News [Reuters], Sun 11 Mar)
2/ The new Seven Sisters: oil and gas giants dwarf western rivals (The Financial Times, Sun 11 Mar)
3/ Nigeria: Energy Infrastructure Firestorm (The O