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Kuwait’s Burgan oil field, the second largest oil field in the world has entered its depletion phase. I wonder when Ghawar will start to decline…
oil, peakoil, energy, petroleum, kuwait

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M. King Hubbert was born Oct 5th, 1903.Ron Schuler’s Parlour Tricks: M. King Hubbert

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We’ll see if this pans out: Rocky Mountain News: Shell’s ingenious approach to oil shale is pretty slick. If it does work out to be economical at $30/barrel and has an EROEI of about 3.5 then we might be ok after all. However, this columnist doesn’t mention rates or scaling all that much. She says […]

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I recently got this book: Amazon.com: Books: Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, but I haven’t had time to read it and it’s very technical. I think heatkernel has read some of it and can maybe enlighten some of us to its worth.

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Boing boing has a post about Peak oil today and it contains a lot of interesting links from all sides of the debate:Boing Boing: Peak oil article in Rolling Stone

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Ask Yahoo gets into the peak oil debate. Lots of nice links too: When is the planet going to run out of oil?

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Privatization is a beautiful thing. CNN.com - Tapes: Enron plotted to shut down power plant - Feb 3, 2005

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There’ve been a fair number of posts on this blog about the so-called End of Suburbia, oil prognostication, oil books, energy in general, and energy geopolitics. I also have a bunch more to say about all these things, so I decided to make a spinoff blog, Hubbert’s Peak. Think of it as The Facts of […]

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From slashdot, this article on the top science and engineering advances of 2004:TRN’s Top Picks: Technology Research Advances of 2004: Lots of cool stuff, including:“Nanotechnology
The burgeoning field of nanotechnology — the quest to build devices and materials from infinitesimal metal and semiconductor particles and even individual molecules — continued its fast pace this year.
A pair […]

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While I think the following article is a little too optimistic about fossil fuel reserves, it is overall a good summation of a lot of key points. Physics Today July 2004- Basic Choices and Constraints on Long-Term Energy Supplies
There’s also an article in this month’s issue about Tranforming the Electric Infrastructure, but I haven’t […]

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