Peak oil – Feb 27
Deutsche Bank jumps into peak-oil debate
Oil hits a high; some see $4 gas by spring
Things not as bad in Gulf as Simmons claimed
N. American NG production and EROI decline
This week in petroleum
Peak oil in a car review
Natural Gas
National – Feb 26
Oil prices take a toll on Gulf’s middle class
South America natural gas crisis
A credible European energy strategy
How Big Oil could help on climate change in Iraq
Those knowledgeable about Iraq say the country is now flaring 600 million cubic feet per day of natural gas. It’s wasting fuel and releasing millions of tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annually.
Hard times – Feb 15
Heat or eat – an expanding crisis
The growing battle for the right to water
UN says soaring prices leave poor hungry
Cooking gas crisis hitting India’s poor hard
Pakistan problem: Washington’s perspective
The author believes that as part of a policy to establish greater control over the world’s energy resources, the United States has instituted a policy of covertly engineering Pakistan’s dismemberment.
Food & agriculture – Feb 10
The upside to peak fertilizer
Nitrogen pollution stomps on biodiversity
Astyk: Time for a new Victory Garden movement!
Studies conclude that biofuels are not so green
Energy sources – Feb 10
Coalmine fire put out after half a century
Declining coal reserves add to energy worries
Natural gas may boom by default
The hoax of eco-friendly nuclear energy
Green laws and regulation risk energy crisis, say Europe’s power companies
ODAC Newsletter – Feb 8
A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective.
The peak oil crisis: the future of our cars – Part 3
At present it appears that biofuels, natural gas, and electricity are the only alternatives that will be available in large deliverable, quantities in the next ten or 20 years.
Proportionality
There is a strange clause in the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) that applies to only one country—Canada. The clause states that Canada must continue to supply the same proportion of its oil and gas resources to the US in future years as it does now. That’s rather a good deal for the US: it formalizes Canada’s status as a resource satellite of its imperial hub to the south.
Fertilizer – Feb 6
Fertiliser famine threats to hit harvests
Gulf to become major fertiliser producer
Nebraska Farmer: Time to be more accurate with fertilizer
Farm group backs plan for fertiliser price probe
Market spotlight: fertilizer companies
ODAC Guest Commentary BP Egypt gas discovery
SATIS – Egypt (offshore) announced in January 2008 Another gas discovery in a proven area Egyptian oil liquids production peaked in 1993 at just under 950,000 barrels per day, mostly from the Gulf of Suez and the Western Desert. It has been declining by an average of 2.5% per year ever since, despite increasing condensate and natural gas liquids production from its newly developed offshore shallow and deep water gas fields located in the gas-prone Nile Delta.