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…
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…
The Lloyd’s insurance market and the highly regarded Institute of Strategic Studies (ISS, known as Chatham House) says Britain needs to be ready for “peak oil” and disrupted energy supplies at a time of soaring fuel demand in China and…
Dr. Feng Lianyong, a professor of the School of Business Administration at the University of Petroleum, Beijing, was born in 1966. In 1988, he graduated and obtained his Bachelor’s degree from University of Petroleum (East China) with Management Engineering as…
At present Ugo Bardi is a professor of Chemistry at the Department of Chemistry of the University of Firenze, Italy. He started with this position in 1992, before that he was staff researcher at the Department of Applied Chemistry in…
The aviation industry now uses a staggering 5 million barrels of jet fuel every day. Many of the world’s largest oil fields are nearing depletion. With peak oil production finally upon us, or very nearly so, the inevitable downward spiral…
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…
Rising oil prices pose a grave threat to the global economic recovery, according to experts. The fear has been expressed by the automobile industry. This week in Perth, Volvo’s head of product planning, Lex Kerssemakers, said: “we all know that…
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…
Mr. Gabrielli, the CEO of Petrobras, gave a presentation in December 2009 in which he shows world oil capacity, including biofuels, peaking in 2010 due to oil capacity additions from new projects being unable to offset world oil decline rates.…