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The Oil Drum Discussions about Energy and Our Future Tech Talk Lower second tier oil producers Norway , Brazil , Iraq and Algeria The Oil Drum Libya , oil production , OPEC responses , Saudi Arabian capabilities and the SPR The Best of TheOilDrum.com 2005-2010 Posted by nate hagens on February 28, 2011 11:00am Topic : Site news During the past 6 years , TheOilDrum.com has hosted analysis and discussion surrounding the possibility and implications of a near term peak in global oil production and importance of energy to society in general . Out of the 7,000 articles posted here all searchable by keyword in upper left the list below comprises what each author considered some of their most relevant . content The list is in alphabetical order , by last name of TOD contributor . Click on the
You have heard about all the alternative power methods for vehicles, but a lot of the electric cars discussed are never really produced at all. Many times the cost of production is too high or they just don’t get the attention they need to make it on the market. No matter what the reason, these [...]
As Colonel Gaddafi’s power slowly ebbs away in Libya, many people will be worried that he is planning a brutal, bloody, finale. Predicting the unpredictable dictator is a dangerous game. But in mapping how the end game is going to play out, you could also play the blame game in how we got here. And...Continue reading 'Mad Dogs and Englishmen'.
Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Satan dealing with the devil in Libya Feb 26th , 2011 by John Donovan By John Donovan A few days ago we published an article under the headline Shell dealing with the devil in Libya” Today I received an email from a well known former senior Royal Dutch Shell official suggesting that the headline should have been Satan dealing with the devil in Libya” This serious person , of high integrity , knows Shell even better than we . do THE MOST EVIL COMPANY ON THE PLANET Posted in : John Donovan Libya Royal Dutch Shell Plc Tagged : Gaddafi John Donovan Libya Royal Dutch Shell Plc Shell Reports Release of Deadly Benzene Chemical at Deer Park
Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Shell Reports Release of Deadly Benzene Chemical at Deer Park Refinery Feb 26th , 2011 by John Donovan By John Donovan 26 February 2011 Bloomberg News has reported the release of an unknown amount of the deadly chemical benzene at its Deer Park refinery in . Texas According to one source , Being exposed to benzene can lead to a host of diseases Extract : The worse case is associated to acquiring acute myelogenous leukemia , a type of disease that involves the production of cancer cells in the blood . Leukemia prevents the while blood cells from growing properly . White blood cells are the main components of the body’s immune system . With
Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Indigenous Ecuadoran woman humbles US oil giant Feb 26th , 2011 by John Donovan By Valeria Pacheco AFP 24 February 2011 RUMIPAMBA , Ecuador She has no legal training , and doesn’t speak the Spanish that dominates government in Quito but indigenous villager Maria Aguinda helped bring a landmark judgment against US oil giant Chevron for polluting the rain forest she calls . home The diminutive grandmother whose modest home sits near marshes clogged for decades in sticky oil has been at the heart of the David-and-Goliath case , and spoke out after Chevron was slapped last week with a 9.5-billion fine , among the heaviest ever handed down for
Rising oil & food prices, unrest in the Middle East, declining house prices and a slew of other variables threaten to hamper a fragile US economic recovery.
Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Evidence of Shell’s Nazi past from Shell’s paid historians Feb 25th , 2011 by John Donovan Photograph shows Swastika flag flying at the head office of Royal Dutch Petroleum , 30 Carel van Bylandtlaan The Hague , during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands in World War II From Image Database Hague Municipal By John Donovan In a matter of days we will publish on the Internet all of the pages from A History of Royal Dutch Shell” relating to Shell’s close relationship with Hitler and the Nazi Party . This is the official account by eminent historians associated with Utrecht University who were given unrestricted access to Royal Dutch Shell
Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Nigerian activists allege Shell involved in Ogoniland assassinations Feb 23rd , 2011 by John Donovan The following press release has been supplied to us today by Ogoni activists . It contains allegations implicating Shell in alleged current violence and killings in Ogoniland . PRESS RELEASE ON ASSASSINATIONS IN OGONILAND The attention of National Union Of Ogoni Students NUOS INTL USA has been drawn to the recent unprecedented killings and assaults by gun men suspected to have been trained by government secret agent PDP on the people of Ogoni , particularly the killing of Jacob Paago , Richard Nimah , Pius Gbarazia and Clement Faah to
Royal Dutch Shell plc com News and information on Royal Dutch Shell . Plc Skip to Content Home Contact Us Contributors Mission Shell Blog Shell Library Shell dealing with the devil in Libya Feb 23rd , 2011 by John Donovan SPOT THE COMPETITION All suggestions welcome By John Donovan We have in recent years published a number of articles drawing attention to Shell getting into bed with the Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi , who was presented as being a reformed character , despite his notorious track record as the principal financier of international terrorism . Gaddafi financed the Black September Movement , which carried out the massacre in Munich at the 1972 Summer Olympics and also financed Carlos the . Jackal” Currently Shell is engaged in an evacuation plan to extract employees who
This is a diplomatic row that has been rumbling for some time and it could get nasty. Back in 2009, the EU proposed legislation that would cut imports of dirty tar sands from Canada, as part of its Fuel Quality Directive, which was introduced to encourage cleaner, greener fuels. Canada was worried that the tar...Continue reading 'Tar Sands Threatens Canada-EU Deal'.
At one point yesterday, Brent crude, the European benchmark grade of oil was topping $108 a barrel—its highest level in 2½ years. Such is the surge in oil prices caused by the Libyan crisis that it could derail the global economic recovery according to Fatih Birol, the International Energy Agency’s chief economist. Analysts argue that...Continue reading '“The last man will switch off the button”'.
Do you remember when last August that the US government announced that seventy-five per cent of the oil from BP’s Deepwater disaster had miraculously “disappeared”? This led to a plethora of press reports and blog posts that the ecological effects of the disaster had been over-exaggerated. At the time Samantha Joye, a marine scientist at...Continue reading 'Welcome to the “Invertebrate Graveyard”'.
Deutsche Börse AG, owners of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, and exchange operator NYSE Euronext have agreed to a merger, creating the world's largest trading platform as the exchange industry enters a period of global consolidation. The German Bourse will be the parent company, and the newly merged company will be incorporated in the Netherlands.
Under the terms of the deal, Deutsche Börse shareholders will own 60% of the newly merged company, with NYSE shareholders controlling 40%. One Deutsche Börse share will be exchanged for one share of the new company's stock, while each share of NYSE Euronext will be swapped for 0.47 share of the new company stock.
This post by Brendan DeMelle originally appeared on DeSmog Blog. DeSmogBlog has uncovered an industry memo revealing that ‘Energy In Depth’ is hardly comprised of the mom-and-pop “small, independent oil and natural gas producers” it claims to represent. In fact, the industry memo we found, entitled “Hydraulic Fracturing Under Attack,” shows that Energy In Depth...Continue reading 'Oil Industry front group attacks fracking critics'.
When the history of the hydrocarbon age is written, the one company that will personify Big Oil more than any other will be Exxon. Yes, there are other oil majors like Shell and BP, but they are like young pretenders to the Oil King. Exxon is the company that has bet its future on oil,...Continue reading 'Exxon is Running Out of Oil'.
In an historic victory, a small court in Lago Agrio, in Ecuador’s Amazon has ordered that Chevron pay some $8.6 billion in damages. The court ruled in favour of the indigenous peoples of the Amazon who have spent the last 18 years seeking damages for systematic and chronic oil pollution. Chevron inherited the suit when...Continue reading 'Chevron Guilty'.
The knives are out. Well its more more like they are wielding axes or even chainsaws, as they pick up the pace in their attack on Obama’s budget proposals. Late last week, the House Appropriations Committee released a partial list of where it’s wants to find nearly $75 billion in cuts in federal spending cuts....Continue reading 'Republicans Wield the Knife'.
US diplomat convinced by Saudi expert that reserves of world’s biggest oil exporter have been overstated by nearly 40%
John Vidal, environment editor
guardian.co.uk, Tuesday 8 February 2011 22.00 GMT
Saudi oil refinery. WikiLeaks cables suggest the amount of oil that can be retrieved has been overestimated.
Photograph: George Steinmetz/Corbis The US fears that the world’s [...]
If the EU is to meet its 2050 climate objectives, the future energy mix will have to rely on a significantly increased share of low-carbon (low-C) generation technologies. Substantial additional RD&D activities are required in order to achieve the ambitious target of limiting global warming to a maximum of two degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels [...]
Investors have largely shrugged off several of these unexpected developments recently, including the sovereign debt crisis in Europe, but the situation in Egypt has the potential to cause more widespread uncertainty in Global Markets, especially if oil and other commodities keep surging or the unrest spreads to more countries in the Middle East.