The U.S. Geological Survey has, in collaboration with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, issued a report with the title, “Hydraulic Fracturing Fluids Likely Harmed Threatened Kentucky Fish Species”. They assert: Hydraulic fracturing fluids are believed to be the cause…
Map of existing permits and wells currently carried on the oil proration schedule and gas proration schedule database. The American shale gas revolution began in the area that goes under the name of the Barnett Shale. On the map above…
The next issue of The Economist has a front cover that says, “The future of oil – Yesterday’s fuel.” 14 years ago, on 4 March 1999, the front cover had an entirely different message. Then, the editors of the Economist…
The discussion of Israel’s oil reserves gives me a reason to discuss the rules that exist for reporting of resources and reserves of conventional oil. It is this oil that still dominates world production, and it is the production of…
On the ASPO Sweden website, Martin Saar has written a good article on Egypt and how declining income from oil production is a source of that nation’s current problems. It is a problem for their future. ( The text is…
Colin Campbell and I first changed the order of the words “Oil Peak” to “Peak Oil” when we thought it would give a better acronym for the name of the NGO we were considering forming. When we did that we…
In the journal, Science Omega, James Morgan has published an interview with me where we discuss how we can prepare for “the second half of the age of oil.” Because so many articles in the last half year have tried…
The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers (CAPP) has just released a report “Crude Oil – Forecast, Markets & Transportation.” In 2007 we wrote our article on production from the Canadian oil sands titled, “A crash program scenario for the Canadian…
by Kjell Aleklett and Colin Campbell Today, the Arctic Council’s eight foreign ministers from Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Russia, Canada and the USA meet in Sweden to discuss, among other things, oil production in the Arctic. They will attempt…
I have just picked up this news on a new natural gas discovery off the coast of Western Australia. The idea is for the gas to be cooled in order to liquefy it. They do not state the volume…