[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 24 Feb 2006

[Antony Barry]

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> Date: 24 February 2006 5:13:02 AM
> Subject: DEVONagent: 27 results (news)
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> Falls Church News-Press
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> Google “Hirsch Report” today and you will get over 20,000 hits. A  
> quick review of the first thousand or so shows they mostly are  
> referencing the peak oil study.
> If there is a weakness in the report, it is the failure to grapple  
> with the “when” of peak oil. After acknowledging the peak is  
> inevitable, Hirsch and his associates list the many reasons it is  
> difficult to project even a rough year for the peaking. They go on  
> to say, “The bottom line is that no one knows with certainty when  
> world oil production will reach a peak” and list...
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> Big Ideas :: View topic - Peak Oil
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> Another topic would be timeline. From what I hear, peak production  
> may have already occurred this year, but is at any rate projected  
> to peak out in, say, the next 5 years or so. Obviously, there are  
> other projected timelines.
> That's where the lifeboat concept comes into play. All of us are  
> dependant (at least in the US, and the rest of the industrialized  
> world to a lesser extant) on the global industrial economy to  
> produce for us the things we don't make for ourselves, and we are  
> 100% dependant on petroleum to deliver it to us. When...
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> <http://www.adbusters.org/big_ideas/viewtopic.php? 
> p=579&sid=b2b5a0e70d819c80a8ac1b6280f5e201>
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> Supply, Demand and Reserves - the Oil market towards 2010 - Articles
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> The largest oil terminal in the world, Ras Tanura, is on the  
> eastern coast of Saudi Arabia. From Ras Tanura's control tower, you  
> can see the totems of oil's dominion - supertankers coming and  
> going, row upon row of storage tanks, and miles of pipes. I visited  
> Ras Tanura because oil is no longer out of mind, thanks to record  
> prices caused by refinery shortages and surging demand - most  
> notably in the US and China - which has strained the capacity of  
> producers, especially Saudi Arabia, the largest exporter.
> As Aref al-Ali, my escort from Saudi Aramco, the giant...
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> <http://www.eemsonline.co.uk/articles/13-09-05?s=bexq2ey90knpr3p>
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> The Oil Drum | A Community Discussion about Peak Oil
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> Conservation ads on TV? The Oil Drum What the hell are oil reserves  
> anyhow?
> Tags: peak oil , hubbert peak , oil prices , gas prices , ASPO-USA  
> ( all tags )
> The day kicked off with an address from the Mayor of Denver, John  
> Hickenlooper, who has joined that brave but small band of honest  
> and courageous politicians willing to go anywhere near the issue of  
> peak oil. Indeed his office is a co-organizer of the conference.  
> Hickenlooper began his professional life as an exploration  
> geologist with Buckhorn Petroleum in the Rockies. After five years,  
> he was laid off in the industry downturn...
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> <http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2005/11/12/0150/4833>
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> - Concord Monitor Online - Concord, NH 03301
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> The world may be reaching peak oil production within 10 years. Will  
> highway-only advocates still want to widen I-93 when oil runs its  
> peak? Will they then use mule power, with pick and shovel, to widen  
> I-93? Then use those same mules to pull all the pickup trucks and  
> cars?
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> <http://www.cmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060223/ 
> REPOSITORY/602230310/1029/OPINION03>
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> Wake Up America
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> Aside from the real massive problems we face if we would only face  
> them -- peak oil and global warming, and a house-of-cards economy  
> where the Chinese hold the strongest hand -- we face the gravest  
> political and moral crisis in our history. Yes, there was the  
> bombardment of the Capitol during the War of 1812, the Civil War,  
> the Great Depression, the war against fascism sixty-five years ago,  
> and the ongoing cold war, ostensibly against totalitarian  
> communism. But never, never in our history has the “enemy” been so  
> starkly and obviously our own rulers.
> But I submit we...
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> <http://www.opednews.com/articles/ 
> opedne_steve_bh_060222_wake_up_america.htm>
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> Rockford's Newspaper Rock River Times | rockford illinois news  
> information
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> China, according to The Washington Post, soon will complete a $100  
> billion deal with Iran that would permit a Chinese government-owned  
> energy company to lead the way in developing a huge oil field in Iran.
> China and Iran reached a memorandum of understanding in October  
> 2004. It provides a framework pledging that Sinopec will develop  
> the Yadavaran oil field in return for the purchase of 10 million  
> tons of liquefied natural gas yearly for the next 25 years.
> Analysts surmise that the Iranian field may produce as much as  
> 300,000 barrels of oil daily, making it among the larger...
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> <http://www.rockrivertimes.com/index.pl?cmd=viewstory&cat=2&id=12509>
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> The Oil Drum | Comments | Uncertainties About Russian Reserves and  
> Future Production
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> In the case of SA, there seems to be the possibility of some of the  
> major fields going into decline. Perhaps one of the major  
> accomplishments of the SU will have been in delaying peak there  
> thru failing to develop the economy to European, never mind US  
> levels of oil consumption?
> Not so sure about the virtue of the SU in staving off Peak Oil. In  
> John Grace's book, Russian Oil Supply - Performance and Prospects,  
> he notes that in 1983 Soviet oil netted the country over $22  
> billion. In 1987 the industry's net income was -$4.8 billion on...
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> <http://www.theoildrum.com/comments/2006/2/9/211031/3684/1>
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