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 City of Bloomington in Indiana, USA, first formally recognized that the City must begin preparing for peak oil in July 2006. A Peak Oil Task Force was created. The specific charge of the Task Force is to acquire and…
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…
Colin Campbell, the founder of ASPO, has written a comment to the recent article about the IEA whistleblower from the newspaper the Guardian. Dr Campbells comments are available from below: Download here: Campbell’s Comments
The world is closer to a peak in oil supply than International Energy Agency estimates admit, UK newspaper The Guardian reported in today’s edition, citing an unidentified “whistleblower” at the IEA. The senior official claims the US has played an…
John Hess, the chairman of the US independent producer of the same name, has fired a warning shot to the world, claiming a “devastating oil crisis” looms large on the horizon if global action is not taken about developing alternative…
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…
There is a “significant risk” that global production of conventional oil could “peak” and decline by 2020, a report has warned. The UK Energy Research Council study says there is a consensus that the era of cheap oil is at…
Credit Suisse expects the major US and European integrated oil companies to struggle to boost output to 2020, saying the sector is unlikely to see any volume growth over the coming cycle. However, the brokerage said Chevron is the only…
(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.…