Knowledge Base
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Major Oil Company Production
01 Dec 2008
Although it is too soon to be sure, it appears that the major international oil companies may have passed the peak of their production in 2004, experiencing an overall subsequent d
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A Prestigious Peak Oil Taskforce
01 Dec 2008
A new organisation has been formed in Britain entitled the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security (ITPOES). It has published a splendid report entitled The Oil Crunc
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The Energy Challenge facing the United States
01 Dec 2008
The following article by Professor Klare, who has studied the political aspects of oil depletion issue long and hard, is penetrating. It proposes local solutions in North Ame
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Imaginative Data Reporting
01 Dec 2008
Those investigating natural processes with a scientific training aim to define what to measure carefully, collect the relevant data and then try to draw logical conclusions. &nbs
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U.S. Election
01 Dec 2008
The election of Mr Barrack Obama seems to have been greeted with rapture in the United States and around the world. Certainly he projects an attractive personality and speaks fluen
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Non-Conventional Oil and Gas
01 Dec 2008
The high price of oil prompted the rapid expansion of non-conventional gas in the United States. Three different categories are involved comprising Coalbed Methane derived from coa
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Iraq re-visited
01 Dec 2008
Iraq was last covered in Newsletter No 24, so it is time to review this most difficult of evaluations. The following is based partly on the Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion. Iraq is
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Newsletter for December 2008
01 Dec 2008
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A King’s Response
01 Nov 2008
We do not of course know what occupies the mind of the King of Saudi Arabia but we can imagine some of the thoughts that may command his attention. He is the son of Ibn Saud, the f
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Oil Depletion Database
01 Nov 2008
ASPO International in Uppsala, Sweden is building a major website covering the issues of peak oil and oil depletion, which may be viewed at http://www.peakoil.net/publications
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Hubbert’s Line
01 Nov 2008
Mortals have difficulty in grasping the meaning of such arcane concepts as logistic, derivative logistic, or Gaussian curves, but without understanding the mathematics behind it on
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Is it deliberate ?
01 Nov 2008
BP is one of the world’s largest oil companies with a long and glorious history, having pioneered the discovery of oil in the Middle East and North Sea, as well as bringing i
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Some encouragement
01 Nov 2008
Modelling depletion is far from easy, and many mistakes are made in working the multiple spreadsheets that themselves rely on often unreliable national data. But it is encouraging
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USA Re-evaluated
01 Nov 2008
It is perhaps timely to review the depletion situation in the United States, which was last evaluated in Newsletter No. 23, difficult and sensitive as it is. (The following is base
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ASPO-7 Conference in Barcelona
01 Nov 2008
ASPO SPAIN certainly deserves every commendation for organising the 7th International ASPO Conference which was well attended and provided a forum for some interesting presentation
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Newsletter for November 2008
01 Nov 2008
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Updating the Depletion Model
01 Oct 2008
Work has started on updating the depletion model, with a preliminary result summarised in the graphs and tables on Page 2. Indeed, an error was discovered in the previous v
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The Perfect Storm
01 Oct 2008
A storm, more severe than the hurricanes hitting the Gulf Coast of the United States, has hit the world’s financial system. It turns out to have been built on weak a
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Australia re-evaluated
01 Oct 2008
Australia was last evaluated in Newsletter No 28, so it is perhaps time to re-examine its situation, with the following taken from the Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion
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Corrections
01 Oct 2008
It has been pointed out that Item 1084 in the last Newsletter got two elements of history marginally wrong. First, it seems that, in 1908, Austria annexed Bosnia, with its Serb pop