James Callum has written an excellent overview of a real threat to the US security, namely the oil demand and reliance on imported oil. Currently, domestic production and consumption in the USA are drastically out of kilter with only a…
A new piece about peak oil, entitled “Peak oil – are we sleepwalking into disaster?” has been written by Dean Carroll. Below follows a short teaser and a link to the entire article. Governments and oil companies have been silent…
PetroChina, the Chinese oil and gas giant, saw soaring costs devour much higher revenues in the first half to post a similar profit to a year ago. PetroChina said it piled on revenues in the six months to the end…
Publication date: 2011-06-01 First Published In: Natural Resources Research Authors: M. Höök et al. Abstract: This study reviews a variety of growth curve models and the theoretical frameworks that lay behind them. In many systems, growth patterns are, or must,…
Publication date: 2007-04-01 First Published in: Energy Policy Authors: R. Chedid et al Abstract: Crude oil (CO) and natural gas (NG) play an important role in the world economy. The Arab countries (ACs) share 64% of the total oil reserves…
Publication date: 2007-06-01 First published in: Review of Radical Political Economics Authors: F. Curtis Abstract: This article argues that economic globalization may be undermined by predicted impacts of global warming and peak oil (depletion). They are projected to cause significant…
Publication date: 2009-06-01 First Published: Natural Resources Research Authors: R.C. Milici Abstract: The production of liquid fuels from coal will very likely become an important part of the hydrocarbon energy mix of the future, provided that technical and environmental obstacles…
Publication date: 2009-01-01 First Published in: Energy Journal Authors: R.F. Aguilera et al. Abstract: This study assesses the threat that depletion poses to the availability of petroleum resources. It does so by estimating cumulative availability curves for conventional petroleum (oil,…
Publication date: 2009-05-22 First published in: Natural Resources Research Authors: G.D. Croft, T.W. Patzek Abstract: By applying the multi-Hubbert curve analysis to coal production in the United States, we demonstrate that anthracite production can be modeled with a single Hubbert…
Publication date: 2009-03-19 First published in: Energy Policy Authors: M. Höök et al Abstract: The most important contributors to the world’s total oil production are the giant oil fields. By using a comprehensive database of the giant oil field production,…