Obituary To Matthew R. Simmons
By Colin J. Campbell, founder of ASPO, the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas Matt Simmons in Denver at ASPO 8 The unexpected and tragic news of the death of Matt Simmons at the age of 67…
Kjell Aleklett
Kjell Aleklett is Professor of Physics at Uppsala University in Sweden where he leads the Uppsala Global Energy Systems Group (UGES).
The death of Matt Simmons is a great loss
Personal reflektions by Kjell Aleklett, President of ASPO International (From the blog Aleklett’s Energy Mix) Yesterday afternoon I received a message from Matt Simmons’ assistant Laura Russell that I found difficult to believe – it read that Matt had died…
Matt Simmons Has Died
ASPO International has received the following press release from Laura Russell, Executive Assistant to Matthew R. Simmons, Rockland, Maine: “Matthew R. Simmons, the founder of the Ocean Energy Research Institute in Rockland, Maine, passed away suddenly on Sunday. He is…
Peak Oil and the Catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico
Deepwater Horizon burns When the oil platform Deepwater Horizon exploded and sank to the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico, oil once again wound up at the top of the media’s news agenda. Of course, it also became a blog…
Olympic gold medalist Björn Ferry our new Peak Oil ambassador
One of the articles on the morning news on TV4 on Holy Saturday was a visit to the home of Sweden’s Winter Olympics gold medalist in biathlon Björn Ferry [website in Swedish] and his wife Heidi Andersson who is world…
Peak oil in Davos: Oh yes it is, oh no it isn’t
The title above was borrowed from the Financial Times. Last week the World Economic Forum in Davos celebrated its 40th anniversary, and one of the sessions addressed the world’s energy security. The chairperson for the session was Daniel Yergin, the…
The Peak Oil Year 2009
We stand at the doorway to a new year but also to a new decade, and it is time to make a summary. At the start of the 21st century, Peak Oil was not an issue. During the 1990s the…
ASPO-8: The 2009 International Peak Oil Conference in Denver
This year’s international ASPO conference in Denver was organized in collaboration with ASPO-USA and coincided with their national annual conference. Sunday’s parallel sessions held before the formal start of the conference offered interested Denver residents the opportunity to inform themselves…
Comments by Jean Laherrère on “Squeezing More Oil From The Ground”, Scientific American
In the March 1998 issue of Scientific American Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrère published the classic article “The End of Cheap Oil”. That article became the starting point for the debate that has subsequently developed around a future peak of…
Peak Oil is not a theory, it’s the reality of past and future oil production
(On August 24, 2009, New York Times published an Op-Ed contribution by Michael Lynch with the title: ‘Peak Oil’ Is a Waste of Energy. Kjell Aleklett, president of ASPO International, has written an answer that NYT decided not to accept.…