Exploration

Falling Oil Prices: Again, Blame Speculators
Oil Tumbles 12 Percent as U.S. Supplies Rise More Than Forecast
Era of Cheap Energy 'Will Never Return'
Norway Sees Oil Production Falling 9.7% This Year

1. The Global Recession
2. Price Volatility: Who Knew?
3. Falling Investment = Building the Big Boomerang
4. The IEA Changes its Stance (will U.S. EIA, CERA and Exxon-Mobil follow?)
5. The Campaign and the Elections
6. OPEC Cuts Production
7. The Large Exporters: from Boom to Busted
8. Shale Gas: Game Changer or Rope-a-Dope? [or “a mixed blessing”]
9. Food vs. Fuel Hit Pocketbooks Worldwide
10. Global Production Peaks, on the Production Plateau

WSJ: Russian professor predicts end of U.S.
The upside of downward mobility
Obama for America 2.0? (Net Movement)
Drillers eye oil reserves off California coast

How realistic is it to believe that opening all of America to oil exploration and development will cause a surge in production?

Posing as a Bidder, Utah Student Disrupts Government Auction of 150,000 Acres of Wilderness for Oil & Gas Drilling
Robert Rapier: Thoughts on the New Energy Team
More proof Holdren is a great choice
US Environmental Protection Agency faces eleventh-hour shake-up
Will Energy Efficiency Stimulus Distract America from the Real Task at Hand?

Russia warns Europe it could face gas shortages
Japan Oil Imports Fall 17% as Recession Damps Demand
Mexico Looks To Buck Global Oil Trend By Raising 09 Spending
Pemex Oil Production Drops 6.5% on Cantarell Field
Lower gas prices won't last forever, economists warn

Shadowed by $200 oil
Channel 4 News interview: London oil summit
Over a barrel

Fatih Birol talks the talk on peak oil - In this 40 minute exclusive interview for my film "PetroApocalypse Now?" I interviewed Fatih Birol, Chief Economist of the IEA about reserves, the USGS, technology, demand and recession, solutions and peak oil. (Also, a mini-review of the film)

Oil Prices Below $40 per Barrel
Will postponed investment push peak oil forward?
UK peak oil warning
UK Industry on Peak Oil: Virgin, Yahoo and Others Raise the Alarm

Why are gasoline (and oil) prices so low -- and where are they headed?
Saudi Aramco on 60 Minutes
Russian oil output to fall after 2020: national energy ministry
Brazil's new oil reserves still buried in doubts
Contango Pays Most in Decade as Shell Stores Crude

A weekly digest from a UK perspective.

A weekly digest from a UK perspective.

Kurt Cobb: The energy optimist's lexicon
Norway slips on scarcer oil
Report available: "Impact of Peak Oil in South Australia"
Predicting future supply from undiscovered oil
Hubbert: King of the Technocrats

AAAS Science: World oil crunch looming?
The 2008 IEA WEO - Oil reserves and resources
Nine percent

A digest of news and commentary from a UK peak oil perspective