New T-shirt Originally uploaded by heyrog. 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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Projected Peak Oil Scenario Originally uploaded by heyrog. 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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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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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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FT.com / Home UK – Putin hints at China alliance for Yukos oilupdated: working link:Putin hints at China alliance for Yukos oil Also, check out this nytimes article about how China is going after Alberta oil sands. China in Line as U.S. Rival for Canada Oil updated, working link:LP: China in Line as U.S. Rival [...]

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If you can possibly make it to this documentary, I would definitely do so. It goes along nicely with The Corporation, a film I mentioned in another post. The reason is that so much of what the modern corporation has done to transform the world in the past century has been enabled by the availability [...]

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