Middle East

Electricity & water - Aug 25

Staff, Energy Bulletin

TVA electric rate increase largest in 34 years
Energy-rich Gulf faces power shortage of unprecedented proportions
Demand for water and electricity to grow remarkably in Abu Dhabi
The Economist: Running dry

archived August 25, 2008
	

Food & agriculture - Aug 22

Staff, Energy Bulletin

A modest proposal for sustainable eating (Slow Food)
Saudi Arabia: Feeding its own people more cheaply
Food price rises push 14m to the brink of starvation
Charles's fantasy farming won't feed Africa's poor
6 ways mushrooms can save the world
Costs spiral for cigar-leaf farms

archived August 22, 2008
	

Peak oil, prices, supplies - Aug 21

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Jad Mouawad: As oil giants lose influence, supply drops
A few speculators dominate vast market for oil trading
The future is now; the end of cheap oil
Russia sees oil output stalling
Raymond James: State of Russian oil ‘much worse than we would have imagined 6 months ago’

archived August 21, 2008
	

OPEC, peak oil and the end of cheap gas

Alfred Cavallo, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists

Amid all the discussion about peak oil, one voice has been conspicuously absent, that of the Organization for Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC). OPEC's position on the petroleum-resource question should be the decisive factor in this ongoing and seemingly inconclusive debate. The organization now supplies about 42 percent of the world's petroleum ...

archived August 19, 2008
	

Fossil fuels - August 19

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Oman turns to coal for power
Carbon sequestration frustration
Oil shale stuck between rock and wild place

archived August 19, 2008
	

Prices and supplies - Aug 13

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Yet another forecast for Saudi oil production
Does another run higher for crude await?
Rush to Arctic as warming opens oil deposits
Raymond J. Learsy and abiotic oil

archived August 13, 2008
	

Peak oil - Aug 10

Staff, Energy Bulletin

David Strahan: Have we reached the end of the road for oil?
Rising need of crude in energy rich nations
Heinberg on Al Jazeera TV
CIBC's Ben Tal sees $200 oil
Energy: It's still cheap (Matt Simmons. interview)

archived August 10, 2008
	

Prices & supplies - July 25

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Huge oil trading loss sinks energy trader SemGroup
Polar power: vast oil find in Arctic
The coming gas supply shock in the Gulf

archived July 25, 2008
	

Supplies - July 22

Staff, Energy Bulletin

Pemex may drill outside Mexico for first time if reforms fail
Record Iranian output belies oil sector travails
Russia's Gazprom agrees to develop Iranian oil, gas fields
You say crisis. I say opportunity (Jim Gray of Canadian Hunter Exploration)

archived July 22, 2008
	

Peak oil is a done deal

Dave Cohen , ASPO-USA / Energy Bulletin

I now believe that the hypothesis of a near or medium-term peak in the world's oil supply is confirmed beyond any reasonable doubt. A shift in emphasis that speaks to reducing our demand for oil and examining alternatives to oil is now required. I will be taking that road in the future, leaving specific concerns about the oil supply behind.

archived July 17, 2008