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Peak Oil in Asia (part 1)
Peak Oil in Asia (part 1) According to data recently published in BP’s 2016 Statistical Review Asian oil production remained at around 8.3 mb/d for 4 years now. Fig 1: Asian oil production We see the dominance of China (52% of total). The peak for all other Asian countries together was already in 2000, 15 years ago, […]
Global Energy Advisory June 17th 2016
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 11 Entrenched as each side is in what seems an endless and ever-disheartening conflict between conservatives and progressives, finding seams to broaden discussions is no easy task. Cocooned as each partisan is in the selective comfort of peer perspectives and beliefs, suspicion and ridicule are the […]
Peak Oil: The Next Steps Pt 1
Peak Oil: The Next Steps Pt 1 I ended last week’s post by explaining the significance of getting all of the facts about our energy supply future as a first step. Before deciding whether or not to accept the realities of a depleting finite resource and the impact this will have on our society—or ignoring […]
EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook and the Seneca Cliff
EIA’s Annual Energy Outlook and the Seneca Cliff The scenario above shows an Oil Shock Model with a URR of 3600 Gb and EIA data from 1970 to 2015 and the Annual Energy Outlook (AEO) 2016 early release reference projection from 2016 to 2040. The oil shock model was originally developed by Webhubbletelescope and presented […]
Peak Oil: Where To Begin?
Peak Oil: Where To Begin? The unpleasant truth now and soon is that the ready supply of oil and gas which we almost always take for granted [the occasional price spike notwithstanding] is on its way to becoming not-so-ready. A host of factors now in place are steadily converting possibility into likelihood. Thinking that we’ll […]
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 7
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 7 I began last week’s post with a variation of these questions: How do optimistic projections from ExxonMobil’s “The Outlook for Energy: A View to 2040” report—which I highlighted in that post—square themselves in the face of the oil production challenges suggested by the news excerpts which were also […]
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 6
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 6 I suggested at the outset of this series that I did not want it to turn into yet another exercise in mocking those who do not accept the implications of peak oil. A legitimate argument could be made that I’ve failed in that objective. I […]
Peak Oil: Time To Get Serious Pt 4
Peak Oil: Time To Get Serious Pt 4 A fossil fuel-driven-and-made-possible life is all any of us have ever known. There are virtually no aspects of commerce, leisure, transportation, or consumption which do not depend in some part on inexpensive, readily-available and easily-produced fossil fuels. That is most certainly not going to change dramatically overnight, […]
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Coming World of “Peak Oil Demand,” Not “Peak Oil”
Tomgram: Michael Klare, The Coming World of “Peak Oil Demand,” Not “Peak Oil” In a Greater Middle East in which one country after another has been plunged into chaos and possible failed statehood, two rival nations, Iran and Saudi Arabia, have been bedrock exceptions to the rule. Iran, at the moment, remains so, but the […]
Where did all the oil go? The peak is back
Where did all the oil go? The peak is back Solar power has grown exponentially and the target of 50 percent renewables by 2028 to avoid a 2C world is achievable An extensive new scientific analysis published in Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy & Environment says that proved conventional oil reserves as detailed in industry sources are likely […]
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 4
Peak Oil: Are We Not Better Than This? Pt 4 I’ve mentioned in the prior posts of this series that there were two articles posted online a number of weeks ago * which caught my attention for reasons which at first puzzled me. No disrespect intended either author, but the contents of each were fairly […]
Parliamentary group warns that global fossil fuels could peak in less than 10 years
Parliamentary group warns that global fossil fuels could peak in less than 10 years British MPs launch landmark report on impending environmental ‘limits’ to economic growth A report commissioned on behalf of a cross-party group of British MPs authored by a former UK government advisor, the first of its kind, says that industrial civilisation is currently on […]
Peak Oil: Time To Get Serious Pt 2
Peak Oil: Time To Get Serious Pt 2 If nothing else, we’ll need to recognize that, like climate change, Peak Oil is not some event looming on a distant horizon. Peak Oil is happening now. We must guard against the notion that Peak Oil’s impact (like climate change) is just a one-time, cataclysmic episode “scheduled” […]
