• Brazil, here we come: Brazil Poised To Become Latin America's Oil Powerhouse A shift in the Latin American oil hierarchy is under way, as Brazil's growing output leaves the country poised to overtake longtime energy powerhouses Mexico and Venezuela. While Mexico and Venezuela...
• Canadian Oil Sands Misses Unrealistic Projection – Issues Another (ASPO) -- Canadian energy authorities have done it again. They missed their last rosy projection of future oil sands production, so they issued a new one: they merely pushed the big surge in...
• China opens new Caspian gas pipeline (WW4 Report) -- Chinese President Hu Jintao was in Astana Dec. 13 to unveil the Kazakh section of a 7,000-kilometer (4,300-mile) natural gas pipeline joining Central Asia to China. Hu was joined by...
• World Oil Production Forecast - Update November 2009
(The Oil Drum) -- World oil production peaked in July 2008 at 74.74 million barrels/day (mbd) and now has fallen to about 72 mbd. It is expected that oil production will decline at about 2.2 mbd...
• M.I.T' Tech Review: The world is running out of uranium and nobody seems to have noticed The world is about to enter a period of unprecedented investment in nuclear power. The combined threats of climate change, energy security and fears over the high prices and dwindling reserves of oil...
• Power for U.S. From Russia’s Old Nuclear Weapons For about 10 percent of electricity in the United States, it’s fuel from dismantled nuclear bombs, including Russian ones. “It’s a great, easy source” of fuel, said Marina V....
• Peak Energy Prep: Russia's parliament passes energy saving bill (RIA Novosti) - Russia's lower house of parliament passed an energy efficiency bill on Friday, aimed at creating a legal and economic basis for stimulating energy saving technology and reducing...
• “Asia to become biggest consumer of Russian energy” (RT) -- Asian markets will import up to 20% of Russia’s energy production until 2020, says Dmitry Streltsov from the Moscow State University of International Relations, commenting on the new...
• Peak Gasoline Is Here The jury's still out on peak oil, but the concept of peak gasoline has some very credible proponents. Last Thursday, ExxonMobil (NYSE: XOM) CEO Rex Tillerson argued that U.S. gasoline consumption...
• Facts and Figures: Where we really stand with respect to oil and natural gas supplies Related: World Oil Production Peaked in 2008; Emergency Preparedness and Peak Oil Preparation(The Oil Drum) -- A few days ago, I gave a presentation in Poland that talks about how much difficulty the...
• China has begun refined fuel stockpiling: planner China has already begun adding refined fuel to its state reserves as part of a larger plan to enhance the country's energy security, a top economic planner said on Sunday. In May, an industry...
• Abkhazia runs out of oil reserves Related: Abkhazian government had already reached an agreement with Russia's largest state-run oil company, Rosneft, for the supply of up to 500 metric tons of gasoline within the next few days, and...
• Brazil Seeks More Control of Oil Beneath Its Seas Faced with the world’s most important oil discovery in years, the Brazilian government is seeking to step back from more than a decade of close cooperation with foreign oil companies and more...
• Warning: Oil supplies are running out fast The world is heading for a catastrophic energy crunch that could cripple a global economic recovery because most of the major oil fields in the world have passed their peak production, a leading...
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