Olieprijs zakt verder; OPEC verlaagt productie fors

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DOHA, Nov 10 (Reuters) - French oil and gas giant Total is targeting nuclear energy to drive growth long after oil and gas output peak, a top executive said on Monday.

"In the future, energy demand will be constrained by tight supply," Arnaud Chaperon, Total's senior vice president for electricity and new energies, said in a presentation to a nuclear energy conference in Qatar.

"Oil and gas will still play a big role in the energy balance. But in the electrification of the world economy, nuclear will play a major role, together with the development of solar and other renewables ... That is why Total is very interested in developing nuclear and renewables."

Global oil output was likely to peak toward the end of the next decade, while gas would follow a decade or so later, he said. Total executives had said previously they expected global oil production to level off just short of 100 million barrels per day around 2020, up from current output of about 85 million bpd.
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MOSCOW - THE ruble is losing value, thousands of jobs are being cut and Russia's oil boom is over: after years of economic and political stability, the Kremlin could be losing its grip, experts said.

Finance Minister Alexei Kudrin this week admitted that lower oil prices meant Russia's financial reserves could run dry next year, while Kremlin economic aide Arkady Dvorkovich conceded the ruble could slip further.

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While U.S. cities continue to rely heavily on coal for power, many European nations are drawing large amounts of energy from nuclear, wind and solar projects.

Cities in Iowa and across America also have largely ignored their transportation systems' contributions to higher greenhouse gas emissions, while European cities have built on already impressive mass-transit systems and have helped lower their emissions, said Kamyar Enshayan, a Cedar Falls City Council member and director of the University of Northern Iowa's Center for Energy and Environmental Education.

"We continue to not invest in public transport," he said. "We are doing things to help people drive alone."

Gas prices, including taxes far higher than those in the United States, promote mass transit in Europe, Enshayan said. So does the compact nature of European cities.
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But Michael Kinsley, an energy-efficiency authority for the Colorado-based nonprofit Rocky Mountain Institute, said comparing different cities' efforts to cut energy use and emissions is nearly meaningless because of varying geography and energy availability.

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Op maandag 24 november 2008 10:16 schreef RemcoDelft het volgende:
Dat gaat niet gebeuren, omdat lege aardgasvelden veel meer opleveren bij gebrek voor opslag van Russisch aardgas (Gasunie-deal met Gazprom) voor de verdere distributie in West-Europa.

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Op maandag 24 november 2008 10:53 schreef DiRadical het volgende:
Ik begreep ook dat ze nog steeds aan mijnbouw mochten doen.
Maar als je naar DSM als bedrjif kijkt is de kans niet echt grot dat ze er zelf iets mee gaan doen.
Daarnaast worden de kolenmijnen zodanig gesubsidieerd in Duitsland dat je het beter dar vandaan kunt halen.
De electriciteit uit 'onze' nieuwe kolencentrales zou er voor een groot deel ook heen gaan bereep ik.

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06-02-2008

N.a.v. een brief van 5 februari van de Vereniging van Effectenbezitters (VEB) aan de Raad van Bestuur van DSM inzake de de steenkolenconcessie in eigendom van DSM, en de plannen van DSM daarmee, dit gezien de zeer sterk gestegen prijs voor steenkolen op de wereldmarkt, komen sinds gisteren bij ons herhaaldelijk vragen binnen over de mogelijkheid om in Nederland weer rendabel steenkolen te winnen.
TU Delft: Steenkolenwinning in Nederland