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Comments on Wood Mackenzie’s report “China on Track to spend US$500bn on Crude Oil Imports by 2020, Surpassing US Import Require 23 Aug 2013 | 11:06 pm
On 20 August Wood Mackenzie (WoodMac) released a report on China and the USA’s future imports of oil. WoodMac regards itself as one of the world’s leading companies producing energy analyses. The titl...
Eagle Ford Shale – a snapshot of today’s activity 20 Aug 2013 | 11:19 am
Southwest of Texas’ capital city Austin and towards the Mexican border there is a large area of shale called the "Eagle Ford Shale”, EFS. For those interested I can mention that there is a good websit...
Texas, Water and Fracking 17 Aug 2013 | 03:04 pm
Last Sunday The Guardian newspaper published an article illustrating one of the negatives of fracking, "Fracking boom sucks away precious water from beneath the ground, leaving cattle dead, farms bone...
Future growth in U.S. crude oil reserves 7 Aug 2013 | 12:09 am
The title, “New data show record growth in U.S. crude oil reserves” might lead most readers to believe that fantastic developments are afoot in the USA. However, if we study the report in detail we ca...
The Economist: ”Oil is yesterday’s fuel" 2 Aug 2013 | 07:46 pm
The next issue of The Economist has a front cover that says, “The future of oil – Yesterday’s fuel". 14 years ago, on 4 March 1999, the front cover had a completely different message. Then, the edito...
How to report resources and reserves 23 Jul 2013 | 03:13 am
The discussion of Israel’s oil reserves gives me reason to discuss the rules that exist for reporting of resources and reserves of conventional oil. It is this oil that still dominates world productio...
Egypt condemned to continued chaos without its earnings from oil! 10 Jul 2013 | 01:19 am
On the ASPO Sweden website Martin Saar has written a good article on Egypt and how declining income from oil production is a source of that nation’s current problems. It is definitely a problem for th...
Global ”Peak Water” 8 Jul 2013 | 09:35 pm
Colin Campbell and I first changed the order of the words “Oil Peak” to “Peak Oil” when we thought it would give a better acronym for the name of the NGO we were considering forming. When we did that ...
”Global Energy Systems 2013” and ASPO 5 Jul 2013 | 03:44 pm
The conference, “Global Energy Systems 2013” in Edinburgh, UK, has now concluded with great success. The initiative to hold a conference in Scotland was taken when ASPO International met in Vienna in ...
Peak Oil: preparing for the ‘second half of the age of oil’ 10 Jun 2013 | 06:03 pm
In the journal, Science Omega, James Morgan has published an interview with me where we discuss how we can prepare for "the second half of the age of oil". In light of the fact that so many articles i...
