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http://www.theoildrum.com/frontpage - This is the fourth part of a four-part guest post by Dr. Michael Dittmar . Dr. Dittmar is a researcher with the Institute of Particle Physics of ETH Zurich, and he also works at CERN in&nbs
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Fitch lowers Mexico's credit rating on oil decline
MEXICO CITY — Fitch Ratings downgraded Mexico's credit rating Monday, saying dependence on a flagging oil sector has weakened the country's ability to weather financial problems.
Mexico's rating remained at investment grade, but the ...
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Food riots will mark the end of oil : The end of the oil age won't be a pretty thing, but a new report by Deutsche Bank suggests it could be even uglier than we feared...
There's been a lot of stale argument recently about oil – is it running out? Are we approaching/at/passed Peak Oil (the ...
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This is a guest post by WebHubbleTelescope .
Abstract ( please read this as a set of squished-together PowerPoint bullet points ):
People become afraid when you mention theory. Everyone talks about entropy without actually understanding it. Simplicity can come out of complexity. "Knowledge" ...
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Oil's expanding frontiers
In 1914, the Bureau of Mines said U.S. oil reserves would be exhausted by 1924. In 1939, the Interior Department said the world had 13 years worth of petroleum reserves. Then a global war was fought and the postwar boom was fueled, and in 1951 Interior reported that ...
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Valero Closes Delaware Plant, the Third Shut in U.S.
(Bloomberg) -- Valero Energy Corp. said it will permanently close its Delaware City, Delaware, refinery because of “very poor economic conditions.” The 190,200 barrel-a-day plant is the third U.S. refinery to shutter because of weak fuel ...
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We the Six Billion: The Ammonia Economy
His presentation, entitled "The Gulf of Maine: What Lies Beyond the Fossil Fuel Horizon," was billed as "describing the role that off-shore wind can play in reducing Maine's unsustainable dependence on fossil fuel based energy resources."
At the ...
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This is a guest post from Robin Lovelace (email: www.lovelacerobin@yahoo.com), a PhD student in energy research at the University of Sheffield, UK. Robin has recently set up RobRod's Repairs, a mobile bike repair business.
1. Introduction
Many of the articles that discuss the causes and ...
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The Peak Oil Crisis: Accusations
Not many years from now, there will be a huge uproar over who missed the coming of peak oil. There will be Congressional hearings and much finger pointing and protestations that the peaking of world oil production was impossible to predict.
It will all ...
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One of the features of many models that are used to predict future events is that they focus on target years. Decadal years are the most common target years, so that whether talking of climate or the amount of oil or natural gas available, models focus on, for example, the amount that will be ...
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We've recently heard more veiled threats from Putin about Ukraine being unable to pay for gas (thus presumably leading to new attempts at cutting them off), which suggests that Russia is getting itself ready to start a new crisis. That means two things:
the internal infighting between groups ...
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Of oil reserves, fudged data and World Energy Outlook '09
(Arab News - McClatchy-Tribune Information Services via COMTEX) -- The energy industry is peculiar -- in more than one ways. The issue of reliable data, or rather the lack of it, plagues the industry. National priorities, global ...
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I decided to write another rather basic level article because there are so many people I meet who have heard a bit about the oil situation, and it is hard to point to one single article to give an overview of some of the current issues. Regular readers will find many repeats of graphs. There ...
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theoildrum.com - 8 days ago
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Last week saw the release of the IEAs
2009 World Economic Outlook on which we will be
providing some analysis in the coming weeks. The night before its release, the Guardian ran an interview with a 'whistleblower' claiming that key oil figures were ...
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Colin Campbell's Response to the Guardian IEA Reporting
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Oil reflects dollar moves, not market dynamics: Yergin
SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Current oil prices are the result of financial market gyrations and do not reflect the supply-demand dynamics of the physical market, energy consultant and prize-winning author Daniel Yergin said on Monday.
Crude ...
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Last week saw the release of the IEAs 2009 World Economic Outlook on which we will be providing some analysis in the coming weeks. The night before its release, the Guardian ran an interview with a 'whistleblower' claiming that key oil figures were distorted by US pressure so as to avoid 'panic ...
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This post is one of my series of tech talks , describing some of the ways in which fossil fuels are produced. In the current part of the series we are focusing a little more on the procedures that are being used to recover natural gas from formations such as the Barnett, Fayetteville, ...
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In The Happiness Hypothesis , psychology professor Jonathan Haidt compares human brain/behavior to a man riding an elephant. There exists a complex choreography between our newer rational cortex (the 'man'), and our older, more primitive brain structures (the 'elephant'). His point was that ...
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Market cornered for rare minerals
As resource-hungry China scours the world for crude oil and natural gas supplies, it has managed to corner the global market for a group of obscure metals used to make iPods, wind farms and electric cars.
The mainland supplies at least 95 percent of the ...
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Oil on the Brain by Lisa Margonelli was recommended by Paul Sankey at the 2009 Energy Information Administration Conference as a book that provided great insight into the oil industry. I have had it on my list of books to read, and recently picked it up to read during my travels. I have ...
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Peter Fisher
theoildrum.com - 12 days ago
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This is part 2 of my post on
the OECD demand. This time I look at the
Non-OECD demand and how it may impact global oil demand. Based on data from the 2009 BP Statistical Review , the OECD oil consumption in 2008 decreased by -3.2% ...
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A New Geopolitical Jevons Paradox? A Look at the ...
