[Peakoil] News items on peak oil 22 Jan 2006

[Antony Barry]

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>  Date: 22 January 2006 5:02:07 AM
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> Subject: DEVONagent: 4 results (news)
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> What they don't want you to know about the coming oil crisis |  
> EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
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> What they don't want you to know about the coming oil crisis
> Estonia: The end of the Age of Oil will not be a disaster if we are  
> prepared for it...
> All this concerns gas, of which there are undoubtedly huge proved  
> reserves left in the ground (even if half of them are in Russia and  
> Iran). Consider oil. The geopolitical risks are the same. Only last  
> week Iran threatened to retaliate by cutting oil supplies if Europe  
> continued to meddle in what it sees as its right to develop a  
> nuclear programme. Where oil differs from gas is...
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> <http://www.energybulletin.net/12226.html>
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> The Peak Oil Crisis: New Years 2006 | EnergyBulletin.net | Peak Oil  
> News Clearinghouse
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> The Countdown for the Peak of Oil Production has Begun – but what  
> are the Views of the Most Important International Energy Agencies...
> [ We've already mentioned this article in the headlines but now  
> have permission to republish it. It's a neat summary of a year of  
> Peak Oil news. -AF ]
> During the past year, the average price of oil increased 33 percent  
> almost matching the 34 percent increase of 2004. If one wants to  
> think of peak oil just as steadily increasing prices, then we are  
> clearly on our way. Since 2001, oil prices have nearly tripled.
> The most...
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> <http://www.energybulletin.net/12022.html>
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> EnergyPulse Article
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> One of the most confusing aspects of the Peak Oil debate is  
> embedded in the definition of what constitutes reserves. Every  
> agency and nation appears to have its own method of accounting. We  
> hear about identified, proven, probable, and possible reserves.  
> Reserves volumes are estimated using 95 percentile, mode, mean, or  
> 5 percentile recovery data. Adding to the confusion, emerging  
> technology and volatile crude oil prices change the definition of  
> what is – or is not - economically recoverable oil.
> But focusing on oil in the ground, while essential to understanding  
> our economic future, misses the essential point. For consuming  
> nations, the...
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> <http://www.energypulse.net/centers/article/article_print.cfm? 
> a_id=1167>
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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>
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