Industry

– Sydney newspaper profiles Heinberg
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Depletion estimates and the CGES
– DOE predicts gas shortages
  (new Hirsch report)
– Peak pipelines
– Peak oil prophecies

– One crude dude: Chuck Hamel, oil industry whistleblower
– Shell Oil president advocates conservation
– BP revs up for carbon neutral motoring
– Russia overtakes Saudi Arabia as world’s leading oil producer – OPEC

Trust eroding in oil pipelines close to home / Simmons: pipeline crisis ‘could halve flow of oil’ / BP denies it manipulated Alaska pipeline data / Exxon: oil, gas and that’s it / Oil prices ‘may retreat to $58 in 2008’ / Costs surge threatens Big Oil’s output plans

IF WE ARE reaching the Peak Oil phase of the Age of Oil, perhaps it is useful to return to its origins to understand how it all began. What brought mankind to the point where we now find ourselves? It is not overstating the case to say that John D. Rockefeller and Standard Oil Co. invented the Age of Oil as we know it.

IEA leaves 06 world oil demand outlook unchanged at 84.8M B/D / The life of an oil reservoir / Oil’s dirty laundry (state oil companies) / BP nearly halving diameter of Prudhoe Bay pipeline? / Revised plan fails to lift clouds over Prudhoe Bay or BP

It’s not all about oil (there’s more to rising gas prices than the oil supply) /
Oil execs speak out (interviews) / Oil boom puts stress on water supply