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Newsletter for April 2009
01 Apr 2009
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Newsletter for March 2009
01 Mar 2009
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Correction
01 Jan 2009
Professor Aleklett has pointed out that Natural Gas Liquids have a lower calorific content than Crude Oil. The graph and table on Page 1 have accordingly been adjusted to rep
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Another Confession
01 Jan 2009
Item 1103 of the last Newsletter mentioned the real meaning of major oil company advertisements, referring to BP’s statement that its initials stand for Beyond Petroleum. She
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Oil & Gas Journal Reserve Reports
01 Jan 2009
The Oil & Gas Journal has maintained a database of oil and gas production and reserves by country for more than 50 years, and is widely regarded as an authoritative source of i
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IEA Half-Truths
01 Jan 2009
The International Energy Agency, which was established by the OECD to monitor energy supply and demand, has now issued the annual update of its World Energy Outlook. It has not yet
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Iran Revisited
01 Jan 2009
Last month, we risked trying to evaluate Iraq’s production profile, despite the many uncertainties, and this month might as well go for broke with a look at its neighbour, Ir
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The Role of OPEC
01 Jan 2009
With oil prices still languishing, if that is the word, below $50 a barrel, OPEC has decided to cut production as from January 1st by 2.2 Mb/d to support price, and is evidently re
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Discovery Trend
01 Jan 2009
Even the flattest of flat-earth economist would surely agree that oil has to be found before it can be produced. Since past discovery defines future production, determining the tre
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Crossing the Summit
01 Jan 2009
The traveller, crossing a mountain range, climbs through the gentle foothills before reaching the craggy heights, which may be obscured in clouds, and then commences his desc
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Oil Storage
01 Jan 2009
In normal conditions, oil companies maintain storage in so-called tank farms, adjoining their refineries and terminals, simply to balance the fluctuations of crude supply and the s
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Newsletter for January 2009
01 Jan 2009
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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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