Natural gas

My busy eating, drinking & breathing schedule prevented me from going down to Houston for CERAWeek this year. It's funny how that works—something seems to come up every year. So I'll have to use news reports to get a feel for how this year's exciting oil & gas Schmooze-Fest went. Tuesday, March 9th was Oil Day.

A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-From the IEA
-China
-CERA week
-Quote of the week
-Briefs

- Kuwaiti scientists predict peak oil production for 2014
- Forecasting world crude oil production using multicyclic Hubbert model (paper)
- Study sees efficiency as key to meeting energy needs (CERA)
- Traders bet on higher gasoline prices

What do you do if you're an energy consultancy that finds itself on the wrong side of the peak oil argument just as much of the oil industry and the rest of the world embraces the idea? The solution devised by eternal optimists IHS CERA, hosting a conference in Houston this week, is to sidestep this embarrassing development by simply rebranding the problem: 'peak demand'.

-US EPA chief concerned about gas drilling fluids
-Europe the new frontier in shale gas rush
-The true cost of shale gas production
-The Natural Gas Shopping Spree Quickens

-Environmentalists question coal's place in Obama policy
-The Dirty Truth Behind Clean Coal
-Parsing fact from fiction with the Bloom Energy box

-What the Olympics Can Teach Us About the Price of Gas
-Pickens expects approval of key natural gas plan
-Asia buys record volume of W.African oil in Q1
-Russia February Output Nears Post-Soviet Record on TNK-BP
-RBS accused over funding for tar sands 'blood oil'

A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-Looming electricity shortages
-China's macro control
-Quote of the week
-Briefs

A midweekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-Venezuela

A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-The Iranian standoff
-Nuclear power for the U.S.
-Quote of the week
-Briefs

The mood amongst oil company executives meeting in London this week for the Petroleum Week conference was largely bullish, with global oil demand expected to recover this year as the world economy crawls out of recession. But the production side of the equation is becoming increasingly difficult and expensive...

A weekly roundup of peak oil news, including:
-Prices and production
-China's Growth
-India
-Quote of the Week
-Briefs

We burn through more of it per capita than any other country; and our appetite for it can only be sated with massive imports. No, not oil--I'm talking about nitrogen fertilizer. With only 5 percent of the world population, the U.S. consumes nearly 12 percent of the globe's annual synthetic nitrogen fertilizer production. And we're producing less and less of it at home--meaning that, as with petroleum, we're increasingly dependent on other nations for this key crop nutrient.

The recession has bought us two years, but an oil supply crisis is still on track for 2015. That’s the message of The Oil Crunch, the second report from the UK Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security (ITPOES).

Millions of job losses are pushing the U.S. Senate to consider a Jobs and Energy bill, even though Cap and Trade appears to be on life support. What are Five Key Measures that must be in a new Bill to avoid being a "half-ass..d" effort? (term from Sen. Lindsey Graham descrbing limited climate bill)