Until recently Simon was a senior strategic planner and management consultant with over 20 years analytical and transformational experience in both the private and public sectors focussed on energy. He spearheaded the establishment of ASPO in South Africa based on…
Many top corporate and political figures gathered in Houston on Tuesday for the annual CeraWeek conference on the outlook for energy, and they got an earful from John B. Hess, chairman and chief executive of the Hess Corporation. “An energy…
The US fears that Saudi Arabia, the world’s largest crude oil exporter, may not have enough reserves to prevent oil prices escalating, confidential cables from its embassy in Riyadh show. The cables, released by WikiLeaks, urge Washington to take seriously…
The availability of oil worldwide has already peaked, the European Union’s energy chief Guenther Oettinger said on Wednesday. “My fear is that the global consumption of oil is going to increase, but European oil consumption has already reached its peak.…
On 13 October 2010, the New Zealand Parliament released a research report entitled “The next oil shock?” dealing with peak oil and future supply for the world. Some key aspects of this paper concluded that “Low-cost reserves of oil are…
The secretary of ASPO International Mikael Höök has now made his thesis public by using a nail and hammer, and this ”nailing” is an old tradition at Uppsala University, Sweden. The thesis “Coal and Oil: The Dark Monarchs of Global…
The most influential progressive think tank in Australia, The Australia Institute based in Canberra, recently published a paper on peak oil and its importance for the government. Summary of the content and conclusions: Like climate change, the possibility of peak…
A study by a German military think tank has analyzed how “peak oil” might change the global economy. The internal draft document — leaked on the Internet — shows for the first time how carefully the German government has considered…
Behind government dismissals of ‘alarmist’ fears, there is growing concern over critical future energy supplies. Speculation that government ministers are far more concerned about a future supply crunch than they have admitted has been fuelled by the revelation that they…
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…