A new study by the U.S. Geological Survey downgraded how much oil remains to be found in the Middle East and Russia, compared to their last assessment, more than a decade ago
The View from Inside Chesapeake’s Board of Directors
Oil industry veteran Charles Maxwell tells the inside story of how Chesapeake Energy helped ignite the the shale gas rush
Peak oil is here and oil prices will keep rising, says physicist Michio Kaku
The consensus is that the world is at Hubbert’s Peak or within ten years of it, Kaku says
Peak oil “is the secret ticking time bomb under the global capitalist system”
—Bülent Gökay, International studies professor
We need to imagine life without oil, says legendary ecologist Buzz Holling
Not many scientists take peak oil seriously—but they should, Holling said at the Resilience 2011 conference
Hope for U.S. Oil: Where It Could Come From
Conventional oil production on land is declining across the nation—but there are great hopes for tight oil, enhanced recovery, and deepwater
How not to argue against the idea of peak oil
In trying to shoot down an article in Nature, co-authored by the UK’s former science advisor, Michael Levi of the Council on Foreign Relations makes a bunch of basic errors
Obama falsely claimed U.S. oil production at an all-time high
Giving false hope, Obama claimed several times last year that U.S. oil extraction was at an all-time high, when actually it’s in a long-term decline
Global crude oil production will soon peak, DOE said in 2004
In a report pushing for development of oil shale—solid deposits of kerogen that can be cooked to produce oil—the Department of Energy says the peak of conventional crude oil is near
‘The Quest’ Questioned
World-famous energy historian and analyst Daniel Yergin attempts to shoot down the idea of peak oil—but his arguments are full of errors, fallacies, and biases
