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19 Nov 06

World Energy Predictions 2006-2030

  • The 2006 World Energy Outlook examines current economic trends and analyses them in order to predict the future of the energy economy. The 2006 report urges the international community to invest heavily in energy efficiency in order to avoid a global econ - julesverne on 2006-11-19
01 Nov 06

Peak Oil News

  • Peak Oil News and Information about Peak Oil Theory, Oil Production, the Peak Oil Crisis and Peak Oil Survival. - julesverne on 2006-11-01

World Bank Favours Clean Fossil Fuels

  • A global energy plan to be released by the World Bank next month risks squandering scarce resources on so-called clean coal technologies and misses bigger investments in renewable energy, but does address gaps in the energy needs of the poor, according to - julesverne on 2006-11-01

Gulf of Mexico Oil Supply

  • Peak Oil is the theory, on the verge of becoming conventional wisdom, that the world’s petroleum supply is topping out and will not be able to meet global demand soaring along with the economies of China and India. But a successful test in a mammoth fie - julesverne on 2006-11-01

Oil Dependency and Depletion Protocol

  • The need for such a protocol is becoming increasingly plain. Petroleum is a non-renewable, polluting, and depleting resource on which the world has become dangerously dependent. This in itself should be cause for nations to find ways to reduce their consu - julesverne on 2006-11-01

Oil Discovery off the Cuban Coast

  • The discovery of potential deep-water oil and gas reserves off Cuba’s northern coast has caught the eye of the world’s energy-hungry nations. The US could see rigs drilling for Cuban oil only 50 miles off Florida. - julesverne on 2006-11-01

Peak Oil Debate Rages

  • Put very simply, supporters of the peak oil theory believe the world’s supply of crude oil has passed its peak and will soon run out – at least in the next decade or two. Even more simply, non-supporters of this theory suggest that’s rubbish. - julesverne on 2006-11-01

ExxonMobil Debates Peak Oil Theories

  • The world has an abundant supply of oil, and high petrol prices are just the reality of a globally traded commodity, ExxonMobil Australia chairman Mark Nolan said today. Mr Nolan used his speech to the Asia Pacific oil and gas conference in Adelaide today - julesverne on 2006-11-01

Future Energy Prospects

  • Of all the many aspects of the predicament of industrial society, the peak of world petroleum production will likely have the most drastic impact in the short and middle term. Now it’s true, of course, that plenty of other resources are also running sho - julesverne on 2006-11-01

Only 18% of World’s Oil Consumed

  • The world has tapped only 18 percent of the total global supply of crude, a leading Saudi oil executive said Wednesday, challenging the notion that supplies are petering out. Abdallah S. Jum’ah, president and CEO of the state-owned Saudi Arabian Oil Co. - julesverne on 2006-11-01

IMF Warning: Low Fuel Price Risks

  • A slowing US housing market and the possibility of a major oil supply disruption were two of the biggest risks to the world economy, International Monetary Fund (IMF) head Rodrigo de Rato said yesterday. - julesverne on 2006-11-01

Peak Oil Theory Rejected

  • Leading players in the petroleum industry, including Saudi Arabia and Exxon Mobil Corp., are aggressively arguing that plenty of crude oil remains for world consumption, in an effort to counter critics who contend crude output is about to plateau. - julesverne on 2006-11-01

Weak Oil Demand in 2006

  • World oil demand was weaker than expected in the first half of 2006 because increasingly efficient use of oil is limiting consumption despite economic growth,
    OPEC has said in a monthly report.     - julesverne on 2006-11-01

African Oil Economy Growth

  • SUB-Saharan Africa’s economy would probably expand 6,3% next year, the fastest pace in more than three decades, boosted by higher output from oil-exporting countries such as Angola, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) says in its World Economic Outloo - julesverne on 2006-11-01

Vast Oil Supplies Remain

  • In May 2006 I wrote, “I know about the “Peak Oil” theory that says we either have or are about to reach the point of diminishing returns regarding the world’s oil supply, but these recent discoveries suggest there is still plenty of oil to be foun - julesverne on 2006-11-01

Oil Alternatives Conference

  • Tom Whipple of the Association for the study of Peak Oil and Gas told those attending the “life after cheap oil” seminar at Wilson College that the world is expected to reach peak oil between 2008 and 2010. Peak oil is the point after which oil produc - julesverne on 2006-11-01

Capacity Limits Oil Price Fall

  • The world should get used to oil prices above $US60 a barrel for at least the next two years due to capacity shortages, said Claude Mandil, the executive director of the International Energy Agency. - julesverne on 2006-11-01

American Oil Detox

  • Each day, the world uses about 84 million barrels of oil. The United States uses one-fourth of that, yet has one-twentieth of the world’s population. Using oil worsens global warming, supports oil-rich autocrats, funds terrorism and makes America more i - julesverne on 2006-11-01

Oil and Global Warming

  • We tend to see urban pollution as a modern problem. But did you know that urban pollution was a serious problem for Western world cities as far back as 200 years ago? - julesverne on 2006-11-01
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