Fossil fuels have been a reliable energy source for many years. Recently, the oil and gas production industry has taken measures to develop procedures that deliver high efficiency and mitigate negative impacts on the environment. With over 23 years of…
Björn Lindahl has published an article on activities and investment on the world’s seas. (20120108 in Swedish in the edition of Svenska Dagbladet Industry [the business section of one of Sweden’s major broadsheet newspapers].) He states that 59,000 freight ships…
On 12 November the IEA’s World Energy Outlook report for 2012 (WEO-2012) was presented by the chief economist of that organization, Dr. Fatih Birol. When he did, so there was one idea that the journalists in the audience latched on…
Publication date: 2010-09-01 First published in: Natural Resources Research Authors: M. Höök, K. Aleklett Abstract: The geological coal resource of the U.S. is abundant and proved coal reserves are listed as the world’s largest. However, the reserves are unevenly distributed…
Publication date: 2009-03-19 First published in: Energy Policy Authors: M. Höök et al Abstract: The most important contributors to the world’s total oil production are the giant oil fields. By using a comprehensive database of the giant oil field production,…
Publication date: 2010-03-01 First Published in: Energy Policy Authors: K. Aleklett et al Abstract: The assessment of future global oil production presented in the IEA’s World Energy Outlook 2008 (WEO 2008) is divided into six fractions; four relate to crude…