• Re: EIA: oil production records in Dec. 2011

    Updated: 2012-04-30 15:33:06
    The bad news is that we are now dealing more with non-conventional sources, and demand is also growing.

  • Drumbeat: April 30, 2012

    Updated: 2012-04-30 15:33:06
    : The Oil Drum Discussions about Energy and Our Future Tech Talk Improving Horizontal Well Flow at Berri and Ghawar The Oil Drum Drumbeat : April 28, 2012 DrumBeat Drumbeat : April 30, 2012 Posted by Leanan on April 30, 2012 10:15am U.S . dirty oil' imports set to triple NEW YORK CNNMoney U.S . imports of what environmentalists are calling dirty oil are set to triple over the next decade , raising concerns over the environmental impact of extracting it and whether pipelines can safely transport this Canadian oil . The United States currently imports over half a million barrels a day of bitumen from Canada's oil sands region , according to the Sierra Club . That number , Sierra Club says is set to grow to over 1.5 million barrels by 2020. That represents nearly 10 of the country's current

  • The peak oil crisis: the quantum fusion hypothesis | Energy Bulletin

    Updated: 2012-04-30 15:31:28
    For nearly 25 years now, the idea that it might be possible to extract unlimited amounts of energy from the nucleus of a hydrogen atom at low temperatures has been pretty much in disrepute. When major laboratories were … More: continued here

  • Seven myths used to debunk peak oil, debunked – Peak Oil News

    Updated: 2012-04-30 15:31:28
    Peak oil is a fact, not a theory. From US conventional oil production peaking in 1970 to global conventional oil production peaking in 2006 the figures are indisputable. Even institutions such as the International Energy Agency … More: continued here

  • Peak Oil Turnaround: A Doomsday Prophet Looks Ahead

    Updated: 2012-04-30 15:31:28
    YouTube Video Link   Peak Oil Turnaround: A Doomsday Prophet Looks AheadIn this rambling rant, I explain why I no longer think that (the long overdue) train wreck of Peak Oil is as imminent as I once thought. Damn!From:HumptydumptytribeViews:00ratingsTime:37:59More inNews & Politics

  • Peak Oil, Neoconservatives, and Mainstream Libertarians

    Updated: 2012-04-30 15:31:28
    YouTube Video Link   Peak Oil, Neoconservatives, and Mainstream LibertariansFrom:DesecrateConformityViews:272ratingsTime:08:29More inNews & Politics

  • ‘Nightmare’ bus system needs rethink – Otago Daily Times

    Updated: 2012-04-30 15:31:28
    'Nightmare' bus system needs rethinkOtago Daily TimesI'm very aware that peak oil will soon be upon us. We simply have to do something about our misuse of diminishing carbon reserves. Encouraging the use of public transport is one easy way to help the planet. Public transport should be part of the … More: continued here

  • MLA: Provincial government must fulfill its responsibility to communities – Revelstoke Times Review

    Updated: 2012-04-30 15:31:28
    MLA: Provincial government must fulfill its responsibility to communitiesRevelstoke Times ReviewBut there are number of other factors that are needed to ensure that rural communities are able to manage the challenges brought about by climate change and peak oil. Local government leaders across the region are applying sustainability principles to …and more » More: continued here

  • From blue to red: Heeler joins cast of Redland City Council – Brisbane Times

    Updated: 2012-04-30 15:31:28
    Brisbane Times From blue to red: Heeler joins cast of Redland City CouncilBrisbane TimesMr Bishop said he has also been part of a national forum of social entrepreneurs in which he focused his attention on global issues including peak oil. He has also been an associate artist with the Queensland Theatre Company. More: continued here

  • China offers South Sudan $8 billion in development funds | Peak Oil…

    Updated: 2012-04-30 15:31:28
    China offers South Sudan $8 billion in development funds. China has offered South Sudan $8 billion in development funds for road, hydropower, infrastructure and agriculture projects, South Sudan's information minister told … More: continued here

  • Can renewable energy sustain consumer societies? | Peak Oil News …

    Updated: 2012-04-30 15:31:28
    Peak Oil News and Message Boards is a community and collaboration portal about energy-related topics. More: continued here

  • $200 Oil Still May Not Be All Bad | Peak Oil News and Message …

    Updated: 2012-04-30 15:31:28
    $200 Oil Still May Not Be All Bad. $200 Oil Still May Not Be All Bad thumbnail. I am deviating somewhat from my weekend think pieces on sectors of the economy and returning to my past life in global infrastructure … More: continued here

  • Nigeria: Shell Shuts Office As Ogonis Protest Pollution

    Updated: 2012-04-30 14:53:45
    Shell Shuts Office As Ogonis Protest Pollution By Bashiru Abdullahi, 30 April 2012 Port Harcourt — The Shell Petroleum Development Company (SPDC) shut down its office in Rumoumasi area of Port Harcourt, Rivers State, as hundreds of Ogonis and environmental activists staged a protest at the weekend. The protesters, who carried placards with various inscriptions [...]

  • Big Oil Approved Canada’s FQD Strategy

    Updated: 2012-04-30 10:27:16
    We have known for a long time that the Canadian government was colluding with the oil and gas industry over tar sands and its campaign against Europe’s Fuel Quality Directive (FQD). But new documents have come to light that reveal the extent of that collusion, especially between Big Oil and Natural Resources Canada, the Department...Continue reading 'Big Oil Approved Canada’s FQD Strategy'.

  • Shell’s outrage

    Updated: 2012-04-29 15:59:21
    The oil firm must be held to account for its failings in Bodo and elsewhere 29 April 2012 Nigeria’s tortured relationship with international oil companies operating in the country attained new lows when it was announced recently that Shell Nigeria Plc had substantially underestimated the amount of oil that leaked from an oil spill in [...]

  • Alleged IP theft from employee of Shell Geelong Refinery

    Updated: 2012-04-29 15:38:38
    Shell management have sent staff messenger persons all around warning internet users about the dangers of viewing your web site, and that they have people watching internet use within the Refinery to get those who would dare look for the truth themselves. Hi John,           The story on IP theft at the Geelong Refinery startled those [...]

  • NIGERIA: Power Play and Game of Chess between NECONDE, SHELL and NPDC

    Updated: 2012-04-28 22:26:33
    FROM THE DELTA RIGHTS GROUP: Subsequently, we will expose NESTOIL’s underhand deals with SHELL NIGERIA, their running Contracts with SHELL, the Contract Numbers, how they used links and connections to secure them, the in-house SHELL SCM (Contracting personnel) and other SHELL personnel giving them information so as to gain undue advantage in order for NESTOIL [...]

  • Wag the Dog

    Updated: 2012-04-28 18:14:32
    I will fight when my liberty is truly threatened.  But I have absolutely no trust in politicians to determine when this is the case. Which is why my reaction to this is, Oh Crap! I am sure it is a total coincidence that, after 35 years of butting heads with Iran, this is occurring during [...]

  • Shell Environmental Crimes in Brazil

    Updated: 2012-04-28 17:37:18
    By John Donovan We were recently contacted by an association representing former workers at a Shell/Basf Chemicals factory in Brazil. The factory was built in 1977 by Shell. Dozens of former employees of the plant have been diagnosed with prostate, thyroid and other types of cancer, circulatory, liver and intestinal illnesses, as well as infertility and [...]

  • Irish Times Corrib Gas articles: 25 April 2012

    Updated: 2012-04-27 19:23:43
    The Irish Times – Three articles, all published on Wednesday, April 25, 2012 Camcorder strangest of Corrib incidents LORNA SIGGINS ANALYSIS : THE Corrib gas controversy has been marked by flashpoints, but none more extraordinary than that which occurred on March 31st of last year. On that date, NUI Maynooth postgraduate student Jerrie Ann Sullivan was [...]

  • March of the Protected Groups

    Updated: 2012-04-27 18:13:24
    From California State contract language I am reviewing: During the performance of this Contract, Concessionaire and its employees shall not unlawfully discriminate, harass, or allow harassment against any employee, applicant for employment, or any member of the public because of sex, sexual orientation, race, color, religious creed, marital status, need for family and medical care [...]

  • SEG Lecture Tour – Kiev, Ukraine, 6/3/12

    Updated: 2012-04-27 16:28:08
    Tuesday Afternoon: When I initially arrived in Kiev on Sunday with a long stopover awaiting the connecting flight to Ivano-Frankivsk, I was met by Zhenya Ustenko, one of the PhD students at Kiev Univ, and we went into the city for lunch prior to me catching my ongoing flight. Returning on Tuesday morning,  I was [...]

  • Shell sees profits surge on oil price rise

    Updated: 2012-04-27 16:12:10
    Oil giant Royal Dutch Shell today revealed that profits rose almost 50 per cent during the first three months of the year as it joined rival BP in benefiting from higher oil prices. The Anglo-Dutch firm reported earnings of $4.9bn (£3.2bn) for the first three months of the year – just one day after BP [...]

  • ARD EuropaMagazin – John Donovan: a lone fighter against Shell

    Updated: 2012-04-27 08:42:28
    Professional translation of the German narration

  • Worlds leading source of information about Royal Dutch Shell

    Updated: 2012-04-27 08:24:10
    Royaldutchshellplc.com is the worlds leading resource for information about Royal Dutch Shell, with free access to over 30,000 news articles, documents and commentary relating to Shell. The website and our network of “moles” inside Shell, was the subject of a recent major article by the German broadsheet newspaper Süddeutsche Zeitung, translated and published in multiple [...]

  • Wal-Mart’s Bribery Problems

    Updated: 2012-04-26 23:06:45
    Walter Olson has been writing a lot about Wal-Mart and FCPA.  I don’t have a lot to add except my own experience working for a large corporation in third world countries. I worked for a manufacturer of industrial equipment for years.  In most countries in Europe and North America, part of our strategy was a [...]

  • Wherein I Actually Advocate Regulation and the Precautionary Principle

    Updated: 2012-04-26 22:38:38
    Can we please make sure no one is able to put an AI into this thing.   We definitely don’t want it to become self-aware.

  • Ken at Popehat Fires Off Another Classic Letter

    Updated: 2012-04-26 21:17:15
    There is nothing I find so entertaining as when Ken at Popehat fires off a legal letter in response to a particularly ludicrous legal action or threat thereof.  Check this one out.  I am not a fan of reality TV but I would tune in for a weekly show featuring Ken pouncing on yet another asshat. PS- [...]

  • “Green coal”: how to scale up Carbon Capture and Storage from power generation?

    Updated: 2012-04-26 10:53:13
    According to the IEA, Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS) technologies are crucial to cut down greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the most ambitious scenario in terms of reduction of GHG emissions (450 scenario ), CCS has a significant role to play and would be implemented worldwide before the end of the 2020′s. Is it realistic [...]

  • Global Oil Production Update: EIA Revises Two Decades of Oil Data

    Updated: 2012-04-25 21:21:00
    April 13, 2012 With the most recent release of international oil production data, EIA Washington has revised figures back to 1985. This is one of the most comprehensive revisions I have seen in several years. Generally, the totals were revised slightly lower, and this was especially true for the past decade. Data for the full year [...]

  • FEELING PEAKY: The economic impact of high oil prices

    Updated: 2012-04-25 21:10:45
    Apr 21st 2012 | from the print edition AS THE developed-world economy tries to gain momentum, it faces a persistent headwind. The oil price remains stubbornly over $100 a barrel, acting like a tax on Western consumers. Some blame the high price on evil speculators—Barack Obama unveiled plans to increase penalties for market manipulation on April [...]

  • Media: Turning Isolated Bizarre Incidents into National Trends

    Updated: 2012-04-25 20:57:47
    Teens ditilling hand sanitizer By the way, why is it so easy for the media to see, say, back room abortions as a symptom of prohibitions on abortion but not see stories like this in the same light.

  • Who Said Economics Are Not Useful?

    Updated: 2012-04-25 20:48:49
    Wonder why no one thought of this before?  Prisoner’s Dilemma as a game show.  Two players with two choices with rewards structured similar to a classic prisoners dilemma game (though not quite — to be exactly the same the return of steal-steal should be higher than the returns of picking split in split-steal).

  • What Problem Are We Trying To Fix?

    Updated: 2012-04-25 20:12:23
    Do you ever wonder exactly what problem this Administration is trying to fix, beyond their bureaucrats’ concerns that there is some corner of the economy over which they don’t have authority? A proposal from the Obama administration to prevent children from doing farm chores has drawn plenty of criticism from rural-district members of Congress. But now [...]

  • BP or not BP?

    Updated: 2012-04-25 10:08:02
    As part of the build-up to the Olympics, Britain is hosting the World Shakespeare Festival, that kicked off on Monday which would have been the Bard’s 448th birthday. The Festival is being billed as the biggest ever festival to celebrate his work: production companies from around the world will perform a total of 70 plays,...Continue reading 'BP or not BP?'.

  • New Orleans Jazz Festival!

    Updated: 2012-04-24 17:55:00
    : skip to main skip to sidebar Thoughts Observations A Blog on our future Supported by : aarondunlap.net Search This Blog Loading . Tuesday , April 24, 2012 New Orleans Jazz Festival It's time once again for the New Orleans Jazz Festival A festival , says Mayfield , is one of the best ways to celebrate and present to the world the city’s unique music , food , art and . culture A lot of our music , primarily jazz music , comes from that outside way of being , the Mardi Gras Indians , the outside culture of what we do during Carnival time , 8221 Mayfield said . We definitely have a unique position of knowing how to do outside stuff and knowing how to do it really well . 8221 French Quarter Festival included more than 100 Louisiana Cajun , zydeco , jazz and blues acts on 22 stages strung

  • “Bully-Boy Canada” Delays EU Action (Again)

    Updated: 2012-04-24 09:34:27
    One of the dirtiest and diplomatically-brutal PR campaigns ever witnessed in Brussels has once again paid off. At the end of last week, the EU finally buckled to Canadian arm-twisting and delayed the introduction of the long awaited Fuel Quality Directive, which is designed to reduce carbon emissions from transport fuels. The European Council –...Continue reading '“Bully-Boy Canada” Delays EU Action (Again)'.

  • Big Oil Donates over $500,000 to Congress in First Quarter of 2012

    Updated: 2012-04-23 18:36:25
    The political action committees (PACs) of five of the biggest players in the oil and gas industry donated just over $500,000 to Congressional incumbents and candidates during the first quarter of 2012. Public Campaign has just released new analysis of data filed with the Federal Election Commission (FEC). Some key findings: Exxon’s PAC was the biggest...Continue reading 'Big Oil Donates over $500,000 to Congress in First Quarter of 2012'.

  • New EPA Regs Address Fracking…in 2015

    Updated: 2012-04-20 19:07:39
    Some good news: The Environmental Protection Agency issued important rules to address air pollution from natural gas drilling, primarily fracking. Less good news: Bending to pressure from Big Oil, the measures won’t go into effect until 2015. The regulations will require that new wells capture certain smog-forming compounds, as well as methane, which is a...Continue reading 'New EPA Regs Address Fracking…in 2015'.

  • SEG Lecture Tour – Novosibirsk, Russia, 1/3/12

    Updated: 2012-04-20 14:26:51
    I was met at the airport by Yuriy Ivanov, a second year MSc student at the university, who later that evening introduced me to Sergey Yaskevich (a very musically inclined PhD student), who would be doing the live-translation of my talk. The student group was the liveliest to-date, making me feel really welcome. The first [...]

  • 100 Days of Olympic Greenwashing

    Updated: 2012-04-18 10:24:24
    Organisers of the London Olympics are celebrating 100 days to go until the start of what they have called “the Greenest Games Ever”. As the real countdown to the games begins, the main sponsors of the games will be exploiting their association with the Olympics to the maximum. Take BP – Its brand is all...Continue reading '100 Days of Olympic Greenwashing'.

  • SEG Lecture Tour – Moscow, Russia, 28/2/12

    Updated: 2012-04-17 14:26:07
    After arrival in Moscow airport, I took the train into the city (a 45 minute express journey), only to be reassuringly informed by the automated voice message on boarding the train, that guns and explosives were not permitted onboard (now they tell me). I was met at the Paveletskiy train station by Anton Pavlov, a [...]

  • Its Official: Fracking Causes Quakes

    Updated: 2012-04-17 12:18:29
    An independent report commissioned by the British government has confirmed that the controversial drill technique known as fracking did cause two small earthquakes, near Lancaster in North West England last year. The company concerned, Cuadrilla, halted fracking after two minor quakes were recorded in April and May, with magnitudes of 2.3 and 1.5 respectively. The...Continue reading 'Its Official: Fracking Causes Quakes'.

  • Lloyds Warns of Arctic Drilling Risk

    Updated: 2012-04-16 09:53:38
    Late last week, the Russian President Vladimir Putin outlined plans to create “globally competitive conditions” to attract foreign investment in Russia’s largely unexplored Arctic. “Offshore fields – especially in the Arctic – are without any exaggeration our strategic reserve for the 21st century,” Putin told a meeting attended by the heads of Rosneft and Gazprom....Continue reading 'Lloyds Warns of Arctic Drilling Risk'.

  • SEG Lecture Tour – TPAO, Ankara, Turkey, 24/2/12

    Updated: 2012-04-13 14:08:21
    The local geophysical society in  Ankara is centred around the state oil company, the Turkish Petroleum Corporation, and my host for the visit was Asaf Timur Kutlu (who I got to know over dinner at a local restaurant, the evening before the talk). TPAO sponsors about 20 geology and 20 geophysics students each year to [...]

  • The $13 Billion Bill for Elgin Gas Spill

    Updated: 2012-04-11 10:12:05
    Oil companies operating in the North Sea could face an estimated $13 billion (Euros 10 billion) bill in light of the Elgin gas spill which could also seriously affect their credit ratings, according to rating agency Fitch. Total’s Elgin platform in the North Sea has been leaking gas since last month with some estimates that...Continue reading 'The $13 Billion Bill for Elgin Gas Spill'.

  • SEG Lecture Tour – SPG conference, Hyderabad, India, 18/2/12

    Updated: 2012-04-10 14:24:02
    As ION GX Technology have a lot of business in India, I usually attend this conference anyway, and was presenting a paper on some recent work I’d done (looking at velocity dispersion below gas hydrate bodies) – otherwise the SPG Hyderabad meeting would not have been a stop on the SEG European lecture tour. Consequently, [...]

  • Achieving universal access to energy in developing countries

    Updated: 2012-04-10 07:30:40
    The year 2012 has been declared the International Year of Sustainable Energy for All by the UN, and is part of the Sustainable Energy for All initiative by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon. This is an attempt to raise energy poverty on the international political agenda and to provide opportunities for business, government and civil society [...]

  • Sacred Waters – Oil tankers and Oil pipelines in BC

    Updated: 2012-04-09 19:31:35
    [ April 21, 2012; 7:00 pm to 9:00 pm. ] The InterSpiritual Centre of Vancouver Society presents Protecting Our Sacred Waters, a two-part event examining how political decisions and global economic activities have affected the condition of our rivers and oceans. The daytime symposium is for young adults (16-22) and the evening event is open to the general public. Both sessions will involve evidence-based and [...]

  • Economic Theology: Angels Dancing on the Head of a Pin

    Updated: 2012-04-09 19:24:04
    Posted By DavidJones On March 18, 2012 @ 9:59 pm In Economic Growth,Environment,Steady State Economy,Sustainability | Comments Disabled by David A. Jones There’s an old question in theology: “How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?” The supposed answer is “as many as you like.” A pin is a physical object, whereas angels are [...]

  • SEG Lecture Tour – Cairn-India, New Delhi, India, 15/2/12

    Updated: 2012-04-06 14:06:54
    The SEG lecture in India was scheduled for the SPG meeting in Hyderabad, but as I had planned to visit Cairn in Delhi anyway, I gave a rendition of the talk to about 15 of their G&G staff in their offices in Gurgaon, as several of them were not planning on attending the SPG conference [...]

  • ‘Nudging’ energy users

    Updated: 2012-04-05 10:24:04
    For decades energy regulators have focused on means to facilitate access to energy supply in order to meet demand and reduce costs. The emphasis has mainly been on liberalisation and removal of market barriers. However, climate change has emphasised that the balance between energy demand and supply is threatened by another risk: excessively high energy [...]

  • SEG Lecture Tour – Herriot-Watt University, Edinburgh, UK, 9/2/12

    Updated: 2012-04-03 15:55:29
    Following a long Scottish tradition, this university specialises in engineering and science, as suggested by the name. The Petroleum Geosciences Institute is for post-graduate students only, with some 300 MSc students and just under 100 PhDs. My host was Prof. Colin MacBeth, who is well known in the field of rock physics aspects of reservoir [...]

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