blogs.ft.com - 6/19/2009
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Neil McMahon at Bernstein Research says it’s not peak oil, but peak well flow that is the problem. He does however touch on similar themes advanced by peak oilists; namely that remaining oil reserves are becoming more difficult, and expensive, to recover. He recounts the phenomenal flow ...
news.cnet.com - 6/24/2009
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news.cnet.com —
A Boulder, Colo., group called Transition Boulder County
is helping to spread the word about what communities...
need to do to prepare for a post-peak oil world. (Credit: Transition Boulder County) BOULDER, Colo.--The age of peak oil is coming, and ...
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Transitioning to a post-peak oil world
sfweekly.com - 6/17/2009
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sfweekly.com —
In May, an obscure city advisory group released
the results of a 15-month study of San Francisco's...
vulnerabilities to peak oil, a scenario that assumes the global supply of oil will run thin in the near future and that the world could go the way of ...
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Report says peak oil could cause food shortages in S.F.
fcnp.com - 6/18/2009
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fcnp.com —
Our peak oil crisis is morphing into a
dollar crisis. Despite record inventories, and millions of barrels...
sitting in anchored tankers, oil prices continue to rise. Earlier this week the average price of gasoline rose to $3 in California and many are ...
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The Peak Oil Crisis: The Year of the Dollar
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Peak flow rates, not peak oil?
Peak Oil News —
... recounts the phenomenal flow rates of some of the most famous gushers of bygone days, notably the Lucas I well at Spindletop, Texas. Finds such as this were drilled to death and flow rates fell, especially as pressure subsided. High flow rates had something of a renaissance thanks to the North Sea and other offshore discoveries of the 1980s and 1990s, and McMahon writes that these flow rates were critical for the expensive and difficult engineering required to develop the fields. FTBlogs
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