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Chief UK scientist backs nuclear power revival /
Feuding over the origins of fossil fuels /
Bio-fuel hopes for palm oil are overstated /
Outgoing German environment minister: consign atomic energy to the past /
Expert lambastes Canada’s massive oil sands play /
Hybrid grass may prove to be valuable fuel source /
Governor Schweitzer, I have a few questions for you about coal /
Why oil intensity changed in the US economy
After you discover oil, you can only produce it out of the ground one time… You have depleted the pores of the rocks, emptying them of the oil and gas that were formerly contained within. There is no “inflation” when it comes to the supply of oil. There is only depletion.
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Huge, tarlike deposits in Canada and Venezuela will be critical over the next 50 years to the supply of liquid fuels as the world’s production of easily pumped oil plummets. Yet, turning this nonconventional oil source into synthetic oil is not likely to be the solution to our energy crisis, as some claim. Canada is no Saudi Arabia.
A bad program with serious design flaws is threatening to crash the whole energy system. Do we choose to fix it or not?
While Congress debates whether to allow oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, a similar battle with much higher stakes is under way in northwest Canada.
No voices of caution or reason were invited to a $500-a-head meeting of government and energy industry leaders licking their chops and gripping their forks as they gaze out over the beautiful British Columbia coastline
A 15-year decline in oil reserves is spurring companies such as Royal Dutch/Shell Group, Exxon Mobil Corp. and ChevronTexaco Corp. to spend $76 billion in the next decade to boost supplies of oil from tar sands and diesel fuel from Qatari natural gas. Oil executives say they have no choice but to try alternatives to drilling because there is not much more crude to be found in their current fields.
Solid article detailing the higher costs of oil sands and industry pressures driving project investments. Includes as context many startling figures: “Shell, based in London and The Hague, reported Feb. 3 that reserves fell in 2004 because it found enough oil to replace just 15 percent to 25 percent of what the company pumped. BP replaced 89 percent of production, the company said Feb. 8”.
Venezuela has hailed the visit of Chinese Vice President Zeng Qinghong as a productive trip that will yield several multi-billion trade deals, mainly in the oil and gas sectors.
Canada is striving to sell major consuming countries on the potential of its vast oil sands to help meet energy demand, but a recent string of output disruptions makes the job tougher, analysts said on Friday.
President Chavez’s goal of reducing his country’s almost total dependence on the U.S. oil market may precipitate a global shift in which China will benefit by helping to meet its exponentially growing energy demands with Latin American oil.
