EIA International Petroleum Monthly: Augustquote:Oil firm says no Iraq payment yet
Norwegian oil company DNO, the first to drill in post-war Iraq, has said it has yet to receive payment for its oil exports from the country.
The payments have stalled as DNO's partner, the Kurdistan Regional Government, and Baghdad argue over how to share the oil revenue.
"There's not much we can do," DNO chief executive Helge Eide said. The negotiations are being watched by other oil companies interested in investing in Iraq. Iraq's self-ruled Kurdish region started exporting crude oil to foreign markets in June.
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En nog wat olie-gerelateerd nieuws:quote:Oilwatch Monthly August 2009
Latest Developments:
1) Conventional crude production - Latest figures from the Energy Information Administration (EIA) show that crude oil production including lease condensates decreased by 236,000 b/d from April to May 2009, resulting in total production of crude oil including lease condensates of 71.80 million b/d. The all time high production record of crude oil stands at 74.74 million b/d reached in July 2008.
2) Total liquid fuel production - In July 2009 world production of all liquid fuels increased by 580,000 barrels per day from June according to the latest fgures of the International Energy Agency (IEA), resulting in total world liquid fuels production of 85.15 million b/d. Liquids production for June 2009 was revised upwards from 84.16 to 84.57 million b/d. Average global liquid fuels production in 2009 up to July was 84.54 million b/d versus 86.6 and 85.32 million b/d in respectively 2008 and 2007.
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quote:Ministers pushed Lockerbie treaty 'to protect oil interests'
Gordon Brown has been accused of rushing through the ratification of a treaty with Tripoli that could pave the way for the repatriation of the Lockerbie bomber as part of a British push to protect oil interests in Libya.
Amid signs that a decision on the release of Abdelbaset al-Megrahi could be made within days, senior MPs and peers said ministers in London had overlooked human rights in their haste to ratify the agreement.
Kenny MacAskill, the Scottish justice secretary, is poised to decide whether Megrahi, who has terminal prostate cancer, should be allowed to return home on compassionate grounds. The former Libyan intelligence agent, 57, is serving a life sentence with a minimum term of 27 years after being convicted in 2001 of the bombing of Pan Am flight 103, which killed 270 people.
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Weer zo'n green shootquote:Olieprijs sluit bijna 5% hoger; hoogste niveau sinds begin juni
19-08-2009 22:01:00
NEW YORK (Dow Jones)--De prijs van een vat olie is woensdag bijna 5% hoger gesloten. Stijgende Amerikaanse aandelen en een onverwachte daling van de wekelijkse olievoorraden zorgden er voor dat prijs van een vat olie op het hoogste niveau sloot sinds begin juni.
De septemberfuture voor een vat ruwe olie sloot woensdag op de New York Mercantile Exchange $3,23 of 4,7% hoger op $72,42.
Dit is het hoogste slot sinds 12 juni toen de olieprijs sloot op $72,04 per vat.
quote:Contango, VLCCs, and the Oceanic Jam
There is a kind of oceanic traffic jam out there among very large crude carriers (VLCCs), with something like 7% (according to Lloyd's) of them storing crude oil off the coast of Europe, Asia, or North America in anticipation of higher prices later this year.
quote:Warning over global oil 'decline'
The UK Energy Research Centre study says there is a consensus that the era of cheap oil is at an end.
But it warns that most governments, including the UK's, exhibit little concern about oil depletion.
The report's authors also state that the 10 largest oil producing fields in the world are all in decline.
quote:The end of affordable oil
Economist Jeff Rubin cemented his reputation as a maverick when he left his position as chief economist at CIBC World Markets, and a 20-year-career there, to publish a book about the end of cheap oil and the end of globalization, as we know it.
In 2000, Rubin had told Calgary's Petroleum Club that oil - then at an alarming 10-year-high of about $30 per barrel - would rise to $50 within five years. In 2005, he was among the first to correctly predict $100 oil.
Now, he says oil will break $200 as the economic recovers.
quote:'Four Saudi Arabias' needed for oil
The world will have to find four Saudi Arabias by 2030 if it wants to maintain its oil dependency, the International Energy Agency says.
The reality of peak oil is fast approaching, and more must be done to develop and encourage the use of alternatives including solar and nuclear, the agency's chief economist has warned.
"My main motto never changes, the era of low oil prices is over," Dr Fatih Birol said.
"When the economy recovers, oil prices will recover accordingly. Mid to long term, we will be experiencing high prices."
quote:Obama says U.S. must win clean-energy race
Reporting from Washington - President Obama, citing a global competition for development of clean-energy alternatives to oil, insisted today that the United States must win that race and called on Congress to enact legislation also intended to curb climate change.
"The nation that wins this competition is going to be the nation that leads the world," Obama told an audience at one of the nation's premier research universities in Massachusetts. "And I want America to be that nation -- it's that simple."
Obama praised "a legacy of innovation" that "taps into something that is essential about America."
"Even in the darkest of times that this nation has seen, it has always sought a brighter horizon," the president said at the MIT in Cambridge, Mass. "We have always been about innovation. We have always been about discovery. That is part of our DNA."
"There is no silver bullet," Obama said. "There is going to be a lot of debate about how we move from an economy that is importing oil to one that is exporting clean energy. . . . There are going to be all kinds of debates, both in the laboratories and on Capitol Hill."
Hopelijk schiet het de komende tijd een beetje op met batterij-technologie, dan worden electro-voertuigen een stuk aantrekkelijker.quote:Op zaterdag 24 oktober 2009 12:48 schreef henkway het volgende:
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Dat wordt fietsen of een heel klein autootje
quote:Government failure to acknowledge oil supply crunch risks conflict and threatens the climate
Governments and multi-lateral agencies have failed to recognise the imminence and scale of the global oil supply crunch, and most of them remain completely unprepared for its consequences. The report calls for governments to officially acknowledge the crunch and to shift urgently into safe sustainable energy alternatives.
"The world's governments have been asleep at the wheel. Their collective failure to recognise the imminent end of the oil age means we have lost a decade in which action could have been taken to develop alternatives and avert the worst outcomes of a dramatic drop off in the supply of oil," said Simon Taylor, Director of Global Witness. "Recognition of the oil supply crunch would have injected a sense of urgency and increased ambition for safer emissions reduction targets, both of which are sorely missing in the lead up to Copenhagen."
quote:Op zaterdag 24 oktober 2009 14:19 schreef waht het volgende:
Het gaat een hele klus worden om sommige Amerikanen uit hun semi-vrachtwagens te sleuren. Velen kopen denk ik liever benzine voor hun SUV dan voedsel, gezien ook de reserves die ze toch al hebben.
Is die olieprijs in euro's nu ook gestegen of heeft zich dit alleen geuit in een oplopende wisselkoersverhouding tussen de euro en de dollar?quote:Op maandag 26 oktober 2009 14:54 schreef pberends het volgende:
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Maar goed, die olieprijs begint wel pijn te doen op 80 dollar met zo'n belabberde economie...
Is ook gerekend in euro's gestegen de afgelopen jaren, maar minder heftig dan in dollars gerekend (aangezien de dollar is afgegleden tov de euro)..quote:Op maandag 26 oktober 2009 15:07 schreef Basp1 het volgende:
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Is die olieprijs in euro's nu ook gestegen of heeft zich dit alleen geuit in een oplopende wisselkoersverhouding tussen de euro en de dollar?
quote:Key oil figures were distorted by US pressure, says whistleblower
The world is much closer to running out of oil than official estimates admit, according to a whistleblower at the International Energy Agency who claims it has been deliberately underplaying a looming shortage for fear of triggering panic buying.
quote:Too fearful to publicise peak oil reality
So far in facing this huge challenge, our political/economic system seems unable to cope with reality. We are forced to carry on living in an illusion that we have so much time to adapt to post-oil that we don't even need to be talking or thinking much about what a world without plentiful oil would look like. Reality has become too dangerous.
quote:Het Internationaal Energie Agentschap (IEA) verwacht dat de olieprijs in 2020 uitkomt op 100 dollar per vat en in 2030 op 115 dollar per vat. Dat meldde het agentschap vandaag in zijn World Energy Outlook 2009. Nu kost een vat 79 dollar. Het IEA verwacht dat de vraag naar olie jaarlijks met 1 procent toeneemt.
De wereldwijde olievraag zou omhooggaan van 85 miljoen vaten per dag in 2008 tot 105 miljoen in 2030. Het agentschap gaat er bij deze berekeningen vanuit dat de aanstaande klimaattop in Kopenhagen geen grote veranderingen in het energiebeleid teweeg zal brengen.
quote:The petroleum civil war
The petroleum world is at war with itself, and the stakes of the quarrel are high for all of us. The debate concerns the concept of peak oil — the term used to describe a global limit of oil production — its timing, and its implications.
Most alarmingly, recent accusations reveal that instead of raising awareness about peak oil, governments have been suppressing the truth about its proximity. On Nov. 9, a day before releasing its annual report, the International Energy Agency was criticized by two whistleblowers for allegedly capitulating to U.S. pressure to downplay decline rates and overplay the chances of finding new reserves.
A culture of denial will prove to be disastrous for properly mitigating this problem. The answer lies in universities, human ingenuity and research and development, in students and faculty like us. Perhaps the U.S. government will wake up to this reality and start properly allocating capital in a responsible manner before it’s too late.
quote:Europe’s Busiest Port Expands for Oil Speculators, Idling Ships
Nov. 26 (Bloomberg) -- The Port of Rotterdam, Europe’s busiest, expanded its anchorage area to accommodate increasing demand from oil traders storing fuel at sea and more idling ships awaiting cargoes.
Rijkswaterstaat, the Dutch waterways authority, designated an area 15 kilometers (9 miles) northwest off the North Sea resort of Scheveningen as a new anchoring zone, the port authority said in a statement on its Web site today.
Ik ga wel eens hardlopen op het strand bij scheveningen en het viel mij ook op hoeveel schepen daar liggen eigenlijk liggen verankert.quote:
Hierzo 't zelfde, alleen dan wandelen ipv hardlopenquote:Op vrijdag 27 november 2009 14:15 schreef waht het volgende:
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Ik ga wel eens hardlopen op het strand bij scheveningen en het viel mij ook op hoeveel schepen daar liggen eigenlijk liggen verankert.
http://www.eia.doe.gov/ipm/supply.html
Laagste punt van olieproductie ligt volgens de EIA in mei 2009. In augustus alweer een miljoen bbl/dag hoger dan dat laagste punt.
http://omrpublic.iea.org/
Ook het IEA laat weer een stijging zien sinds het tweede kwartaal van 2009.
quote:Putin launches new Russia oil route to Asia
MOSCOW — Prime Minister Vladimir Putin launched Russia's long-awaited Siberian oil export route Monday, giving energy-hungry Asia a new supply source from the world's largest crude exporter seeking to diversify its client base away from Europe.
"For Russia this is truly a serious event," Putin said during the terminal inauguration ceremony at the port of Kozmino near Nakhodka, in comments broadcast on state television.
"This is a strategic project because it allows us to enter completely new, growing, promising markets of the Asian Pacific region," Putin said.
Russia has been keen to diversify its client base beyond its traditional European consumers, who have in turn in recent years been looking for ways to reduce their heavy dependence on Russian energy.
quote:China to ‘Actively’ Join Global Race for Resources
Jan. 5 (Bloomberg) -- China, the world’s second-biggest energy consumer, said it will “actively” participate in the global competition for oil, natural gas and mineral resources as domestic demand rises.
The country will intensify the development of overseas resources to ensure “stable” energy supplies for economic growth, Zhang Xiaoqiang, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, said in a speech on foreign investment posted on the commission’s Web site today.
Ah, voorspelbaarheid.quote:Op donderdag 7 januari 2010 15:00 schreef Perrin het volgende:
The country will intensify the development of overseas resources to ensure “stable” energy supplies for economic growth, Zhang Xiaoqiang, vice chairman of the National Development and Reform Commission, said in a speech on foreign investment posted on the commission’s Web site today.
quote:BP profits fall by 45%
BP has reported a sharp drop in profits in 2009 as it grappled with cheaper energy prices and squeezed margins on refining.
The oil company said underlying profits in the fourth quarter rose 70% on a year earlier to $4.4bn (£2.75bn), but that missed the City's forecasts. The year as a whole suffered a 45% fall in profits to $14bn.
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He said BP expects recovery in the major economies of the US and Europe to be "slow and gradual". While oil markets look well supported by Opec, BP expects gas markets to remain volatile and refining margins to remain depressed for the foreseeable future.
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quote:ExxonMobil profits slump to $19bn
The world's largest publicly traded oil company, ExxonMobil, saw its profits slump to $19bn (£11.9bn) in 2009 from $45bn as it grappled with declining margins at its refineries and weaker demand for fuel in recession-battered economies.
Exxon's profits were its smallest for seven years and amounted to a sharp return to earth after the Texas-based energy empire smashed America's all-time record for corporate earnings in 2008. But they still amounted to earnings of nearly $53m a day.
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Maar wat wij natuurlijk interessanter vinden is de olieproductie.quote:
Over China & India:quote:Global supply rose 270 kb/d in December to 86.2 mb/d, on both higher OPEC and non-OPEC output. A reappraisal of Azerbaijan’s crude production outlook leads to a 150 kb/d revision for 2010 non-OPEC supply, to 51.5 mb/d. Non-OPEC output this year will grow 0.2 mb/d from a modestly-revised 51.3 mb/d in 2009, driven by biofuels and rising crude supply in Brazil, the FSU, Australia, Colombia and India.
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Forecast global oil demand remains virtually unchanged at 84.9 mb/d in 2009 (-1.5% or -1.3 mb/d year-on-year) and 86.3 mb/d in 2010 (+1.7% or +1.4 mb/d versus the previous year). Growth is driven by non-OECD countries, most notably in Asia. Oil demand recovery in the OECD will likely remain sluggish, despite the recent cold weather.
De voornaamste olieconsument Amerika is in ieder geval nog niet helemaal van de schrik bekomen.quote:Preliminary data indicate that China’s apparent demand (refinery output plus net oil product imports) rose by an astonishing 16.4% year‐on‐year in November, with all product categories bar gasoline and residual fuel oil posting gains. This was the third consecutive month of double‐digit growth, underpinned by buoyant demand for naphtha (+71.9%), jet fuel/kerosene (+70.8%) and ‘other products’ (+36.6%).
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It appears that the severe snowstorms and cold snap that hit China in early November, severely disrupting energy supplies and transportation infrastructure, notably in northern and north‐western areas, did not translate into weaker‐than‐expected demand. As in recent months, oil demand is supported both by government spending and by product hoarding ahead of likely domestic price increases. In the case of naphtha, though, demand has been also driven by the expansion of ethylene and BTX capacity (olefins and aromatics) and by the conversion of old ethylene crackers from gasoil and other feedstocks to naphtha.
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The rise in India’s oil product sales – a proxy of demand – slowed to 3.2% year‐on‐year in November after double‐digit growth in the previous month, according to preliminary data. Demand continues to be supported by buoyant gasoline demand (+11.1%), with car sales rising by 61% year‐on‐year in November (although relative to a lower base). Gasoil consumption, which accounts for about 37% of the country’s total oil demand, rose by 5.6% – a more moderate pace versus October’s 12.0% jump. Although jet fuel/kerosene sales went up by only 2.2% on year, air travel has picked up after a weak start in 2009. By contrast, naphtha demand declined by 28.3% given greater domestic natural gas availability from Reliance Industries Limited’s giant offshore D6 block in eastern India (the project, which currently produces some 1.4 bcf/day, is expected to peak at 2.8 bcf/d by early 2010). However, preliminary naphtha data were yet again revised up (+100 kb/d in October), showing demand growth of 13.6% instead of a 23.3% decline.
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Dek je in met een tracker dan!quote:Op woensdag 3 februari 2010 16:55 schreef Revolution-NL het volgende:
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Als de economie weer flink aantrekt ben ik bang dat de olie prijs weer keihard door het dak heen gaat
Maar dan richt je je volledig op de vraag. Het aanbod is net zo roerig als de vraag. Veel oliebronnen zijn al onrendabel geworden door de gekelderde prijs. Als de olieprijs lager dan 30 dollar zou komen kunnen alleen nog een paar gelukkige Oliesjeiks hun kosten laag genoeg houden, bij wijze van spreken.quote:Op woensdag 3 februari 2010 17:19 schreef piepeloi55 het volgende:
De olieprijs staat (gezien de werkelijke) vraag-aanbod veel te hoog. Zodra de crisis hervat word (overheden en centrale banken worden impotent) gaat die bodem van 30 dollar eraan. Tot die tijd speculeren op een prijsstijging van het zwarte goud heet: the greater fool spelen.
Dat de Opec de productie kunstmatig laaghoud spreekt alles wat je hierboven zegt al tegen. Daarnaast staan er enorm veel olietankers te wachten om gelost te worden en zijn het vooral speculanten die de prijzen van commodity's opdrijven (ook van olie). Als de echte crisis losbarst gaat die 30 dollar makkelijk gehaald worden.quote:Op woensdag 3 februari 2010 17:40 schreef waht het volgende:
Maar dan richt je je volledig op de vraag. Het aanbod is net zo roerig als de vraag. Veel oliebronnen zijn al onrendabel geworden door de gekelderde prijs. Als de olieprijs lager dan 30 dollar zou komen kunnen alleen nog een paar gelukkige Oliesjeiks hun kosten laag genoeg houden, bij wijze van spreken.
Dat is mogelijk, maar dan is dat maar van tijdelijke aard.quote:Op woensdag 3 februari 2010 23:30 schreef piepeloi55 het volgende:
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Dat de Opec de productie kunstmatig laaghoud spreekt alles wat je hierboven zegt al tegen. Daarnaast staan er enorm veel olietankers te wachten om gelost te worden en zijn het vooral speculanten die de prijzen van commodity's opdrijven (ook van olie). Als de echte crisis losbarst gaat die 30 dollar makkelijk gehaald worden.
Gedeeltelijk waar. Door de crisis en een lagere vraag naar olie zal de toekomstige oliecrisis vooruitgeschoven zijn. Ik geloof echter niet dat het de komende jaren staat/stond te gebeuren, is meer een kwestie van decennia zo niet langer. De hysterie over een toekomstig olietekort is al heel oud, in de jaren '70 waarschuwde de club van Rome er al voor en ondertussen zijn we 30/40 jaar verder. De hoofdreden waarom het nu weer is aangewakkerd is de speculatieve bubble die de olieprijs bracht naar een stand van 147. Ook kun je nooit zeggen wat voor nieuwe technologien worden uitgevonden, die het vergemakkelijken om olie te winnen of olie zelfs (gedeeltelijk) overbodig maken.quote:Op woensdag 3 februari 2010 23:48 schreef waht het volgende:
Maar goed, de financiële crisis heeft ons (tijdelijk) gered van een oliecrisis.
Echte problemen konden we al zien in 2008 toen de olieprijs boven de $100 lag. Voor ons was het niet meer dan een irritatie (dure benzine, vliegtickets etc.), maar derdewereldlanden werden letterlijk weggedrukt. Ze konden de hogere olieprijzen simpelweg niet meer betalen en de olie die wel voorhanden was werd weggekaapt door rijkere landen.quote:Op vrijdag 5 februari 2010 14:09 schreef piepeloi55 het volgende:
Je hebt je duidelijk kwa cijfers er beter als mij in verdiept. Wat is je eigen visie erop, hoelang we nog hebben te gaan voordat er echte problemen (verder dan alleen een hoge prijs) erdoor veroorzaakt worden?
quote:Branson warns that oil crunch is coming within five years
Sir Richard Branson and fellow leading businessmen will warn ministers this week that the world is running out of oil and faces an oil crunch within five years.
The founder of the Virgin group, whose rail, airline and travel companies are sensitive to energy prices, will say that the coming crisis could be even more serious than the credit crunch.
"The next five years will see us face another crunch – the oil crunch. This time, we do have the chance to prepare. The challenge is to use that time well," Branson will say.
"Our message to government and businesses is clear: act," he says in a foreword to a new report on the crisis. "Don't let the oil crunch catch us out in the way that the credit crunch did."
quote:World crude oil, condensate and oil sands production peaked in 2005 at an annual average of 73.72 million barrels per day (mbd) according to recent EIA production data. 2008 production was slightly less than 2005 creating a peak plateau from 2005 to 2008 as shown in the chart below. Production is expected to decline further as non OPEC annual oil production peaked in 2004 and is forecast to decline at a faster rate in 2010 and beyond due mainly to big declines from Russia, Norway, the UK and Mexico. Saudi Arabia's crude oil production peaked in 2005. By 2011, OPEC will not have the ability to offset cumulative non OPEC declines and world oil production is forecast to stay below its 2005 peak.
My forecast to 2012 is based on an aggregation of individual forecasts from over 80 countries including over 300 major oil projects. My estimate of 1.95 trillion barrels (TB) of total Ultimate Recoverable Reserves (URR) of oil is used to generate the forecast beyond 2012 as shown by the red line below. If Colin Campbell's estimate of 2.20 TB is used, which is 250 billion barrels (Gb) greater than my estimate due mainly to more optimistic assumptions about OPEC reserves, the peak production date remains at 2005. This shows that an additional 250 Gb of recoverable oil reserves does not change the peak oil date and instead increased production rates occur later as indicated by the green line below. Additional reserves and the related production from prospective areas such as the arctic, Iraq, and Brazil's Santos basin are highly unlikely to produce another peak but should decrease the production decline rate after 2012.
http://www.theoildrum.com/node/5979
Kortom, Branson kletst uit zijn nek?quote:Op maandag 8 februari 2010 19:16 schreef SeLang het volgende:
Voor mij is elke grafiek die NU peak oil aangeeft uit de lucht gegrepen, aangezien de productiecapaciteit zich NU op een alltime high bevindt en peakoil dus per definitie niet is bereikt. Alle projecties van dalende olieproductie vanaf hier zijn gewoon speculatie.
Op een bepaald moment zal peak oil inderdaad worden bereikt, maar niemand weet of dat is in 2010, 2030 of 2100.
Ja, want hij weet dit helemaal niet.quote:Op maandag 8 februari 2010 20:14 schreef Perrin het volgende:
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Kortom, Branson kletst uit zijn nek?
Ik zie die peak oil plaatjes al sinds 1980 ofzo. Kennelijk is die capaciteit erg moeilijk te schatten. Dat neemt niet weg dat je je wel moet voorbereiden op het feit dat er een keer een einde aan die olie gaat komen, maar figuren die elke keer op een alltime high in capaciteit aankondigen dat dit toch echt peakoil is neem ik met een flinke scheut zout totdat daadwerkelijk blijkt dat het zover is.quote:Even vereenvoudigd: er is wel degelijk een analyse te maken van productiecapaciteit van bestaande bronnen en verwachte capaciteit van bronnen die reeds in ontwikkeling zijn. Tel ze bij elkaar op en je hebt de verwachte productiecapaciteit voor de komende paar jaren.
Voor individuen is dat misschien de verstandigste strategie, maar voor steden, provincies en staten is het wellicht wat onhandig om pas als de olie echt schaars begint te worden een begin te maken met het nadenken over het ombouwen van de huidige economie zodat de samenleving redelijk normaal kan blijven functioneren ook in een toekomst met schaarse olie. Zaken die je ook had kunnen regelen toen olie nog overvloedig en goedkoop was en je nog ruim de tijd had, zijn een stuk lastiger wanneer olie schaars wordt en de tijd begint te dringen.quote:Op maandag 8 februari 2010 23:39 schreef SeLang het volgende:
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Ja, want hij weet dit helemaal niet.
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Ik zie die peak oil plaatjes al sinds 1980 ofzo. Kennelijk is die capaciteit erg moeilijk te schatten. Dat neemt niet weg dat je je wel moet voorbereiden op het feit dat er een keer een einde aan die olie gaat komen, maar figuren die elke keer op een alltime high in capaciteit aankondigen dat dit toch echt peakoil is neem ik met een flinke scheut zout totdat daadwerkelijk blijkt dat het zover is.
Olieconflicten.quote:Falklands oil prospects stir Anglo-Argentinian tensions
Four British firms set to drill for oil north of Falkland Islands, in move Argentina calls a 'violation of sovereignty'
It does not look like much: a jumble of pipes, containers and drilling equipment sitting on a windswept jetty at Port Stanley.
The hardware, however, signals an imminent search for oil and gas that could turn the Falkland Islanders into south Atlantic oil barons, a prospect that has already triggered a dispute between Britain and Argentina.
A rig, the Ocean Guardian, is due to arrive by mid-February and will almost immediately begin drilling for hydrocarbon deposits 100 miles north of the archipelago.
Geological surveys suggest there could be up to 60bn barrels beneath the seabed around the British territory, a bonanza that would transform islands famed for sheep, fish and remoteness.
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quote:Guyana is hopeful about its offshore oil and gas future
Part of Guyana’s serious border problems were resolved in 2007, when a Permanent Court of Arbitration (PCA) tribunal ruled in the country’s favor in its maritime dispute with Suriname. Toronto-based CGX Energy, whose offshore rig was forced off by Surinamese gunboats in 2000, was delighted by the ruling.
CGX has three licenses offshore Guyana and 9.8 million acres in the country. Spain’s Repsol YPF, has a 75% interest in the 2.8 million-acre Georgetown license, with CGX holding 25%.
The United States Geological Survey’s World Petroleum Assessment 2000 estimates offshore Guyana housing as much as 42Tcf of gas and 15.2 billion barrels of oil.
quote:Canadian company to commence oil drilling offshore Guyana in 2010
CGX Energy Inc has announced its plans to begin drilling for oil in its Corentyne Guyana concession by the second half of 2010, the company s chairman and Chief Executive Kerry Sully said on Saturday, following a meeting with President of Guyana, Bharrat Jagdeo.
quote:Shell Pioneers Oil Exploration Off Guyana in South America
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The theory that the same oil-bearing geological formations may exist on both sides of an ocean has similarly directed attention to Angola after the 2007 discovery of the Tupi oil fields in Brazil. As HeatingOil.com reported on October 19, Brazil is now the world’s fifteenth largest oil producer and the second largest in South America following Venezuela.
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Ben benieuwd of Nederland het dan wederom zal steunen (i.v.m. Maxima)quote:Op dinsdag 9 februari 2010 22:00 schreef SeLang het volgende:
Ik woon vlak bij Portsmouth en zie altijd die oorlogsschepen inclusief vliegdekschepen hier in de haven liggen. Lijkt me wel tof opnieuw een oorlog met Argentinie
Dode mensenquote:Op dinsdag 9 februari 2010 22:00 schreef SeLang het volgende:
Ik woon vlak bij Portsmouth en zie altijd die oorlogsschepen inclusief vliegdekschepen hier in de haven liggen. Lijkt me wel tof opnieuw een oorlog met Argentinie
Nee, wij hebben ons eigen olieconflict als we dat willen. In Suriname of rond de Nederlandse Antilllen.quote:Op woensdag 10 februari 2010 01:12 schreef Dlocks het volgende:
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quote:http://peakoiltaskforce.net/
On 10 February 2010 at the Royal Society, six UK companies - Arup, Foster + Partners, Scottish and Southern Energy, Solarcentury, Stagecoach Group and Virgin - joined together to launch the second report of the UK Industry Task-Force on Peak Oil and Energy Security (ITPOES).
The report, titled “The Oil Crunch - a wake-up call for the UK economy”, finds that oil shortages, insecurity of supply and price volatility will destabilise economic, political and social activity within five years.
The Task-Force warns that the UK must not be caught out by the oil crunch in the same way it was with the credit crunch and states that policies to address Peak Oil must be a priority for the new government formed after the 2010 election.
Hier overigens het rapport in PDF-vorm.quote:
Waarom Portsmouth eigenlijk?quote:Op dinsdag 9 februari 2010 22:00 schreef SeLang het volgende:
Ik woon vlak bij Portsmouth en zie altijd die oorlogsschepen inclusief vliegdekschepen hier in de haven liggen. Lijkt me wel tof opnieuw een oorlog met Argentinie
quote:Wall Street Journal: The Next Crisis: Prepare for Peak Oil
As Europe's leaders gather in Brussels today, they have only one crisis in mind: the debts that threaten the stability of the European Union. They are unlikely to be in any mood to listen to warnings about a different crisis that is looming and that could cause massive disruption.
A shortage of oil could be a real problem for the world within a fairly short period of time. It was unfortunate for the group which chose to point this out yesterday that they should have chosen to do so on the day the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries, or OPEC, reported that the effects of the financial downturn had led to a slight downgrade in its forecast for oil consumption this year.
Against the gloomy economic backdrop that Europe currently provides, siren voices shrieking that a potential energy crisis is imminent and could be worse than the credit crunch are liable to be dismissed as scaremongers. Since they are led by Sir Richard Branson, whose Virgin group runs an energy-guzzling airline, and include Brian Souter, who runs Stagecoach, another energy-hungry transport business, they are also at risk of being seen as self-interested scaremongers.
But the work of the Industry Taskforce on Peak Oil and Energy Security shouldn't be disparagingly dismissed. Its arguments are well founded and lead it to the conclusion that, while the global downturn may have delayed it by a couple of years, peak oil—the point at which global production reaches its maximum—is no more than five years away. Governments and corporations need to use the intervening years to speed up the development of and move toward other energy sources and increased energy efficiency.
Dergelijke berichten duiken steeds vaker op. Toch wel iets om je zorgen over te maken. Als we daadwerkelijk op korte termijn met peak-oil te maken krijgen dan krijgen we met ze alleen een groot probleem.quote:
Zelf vorig jaar naar Oeganda geweest, dit jaar naar Botswana.. enjoy it while it lastsquote:Op donderdag 11 februari 2010 16:52 schreef SeLang het volgende:
Snel m'n volgende vakantie plannen voordat de olie op is. Dan is het gedaan met vliegen naar verre oorden
Er is gewoon genoeg dure olie dus.quote:Oil exploration costs rocket as risks rise
LONDON (Reuters) - Finding oil and gas to replace the world's fast dwindling reserves is increasingly risky as rigs probe areas once seen as too difficult or too dangerous, and costs are rocketing, which could imperil future supply.
The cost of discovering each new barrel of oil and gas has risen three-fold over the last decade as technology has pushed the frontiers of exploration into ever more remote areas.
As old fields run dry, oil companies are drilling wells in some of the most inhospitable regions, where political, physical, geological, geographical, technical and contractual risks are high, and they have had remarkable success.
Despite escalating challenges, the annual rate of discovery of new fields has remained remarkably constant at 15-20 billion barrels, more than enough to compensate for the loss of existing reserves that are declining at between 5 and 15 percent a year.
But the cost of this success is staggering, and unless consumers pay more for oil in future, some analysts think we could face an energy supply crunch within a few years.
"The age of cheap oil has gone and it is not going to come back," said Paul Stevens, senior research fellow at the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House in London.
"The world is not going to run out of oil tomorrow, but it is more and more expensive to find and will continue to be so," he said. "The worry is that investment may be squeezed as risks rise, and that could bring us to a looming supply crunch."
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Dus hier staat dat bewezen voorraden gewoon stijgen, niet krimpen.quote:Despite escalating challenges, the annual rate of discovery of new fields has remained remarkably constant at 15-20 billion barrels, more than enough to compensate for the loss of existing reserves that are declining at between 5 and 15 percent a year.
Dat dus. Daarom ben ik ook niet zo'n peakoil gelover. Natuurlijk is alles eindig, maar hoe hoger de olieprijs, hoe meer voorraden opeens winbaar worden.quote:Op donderdag 11 februari 2010 17:23 schreef SeLang het volgende:
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Dus hier staat dat bewezen voorraden gewoon stijgen, niet krimpen.
peakoil
Natuurlijk zijn voorraden altijd een functie van prijs.
*gaat de schuur alvast leeghalen om die straks vol te plempen met barrels oliequote:Op donderdag 11 februari 2010 17:26 schreef Drive-r het volgende:
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Dat dus. Daarom ben ik ook niet zo'n peakoil gelover. Natuurlijk is alles eindig, maar hoe hoger de olieprijs, hoe meer voorraden opeens winbaar worden.
Precies, maar 2007 en 2008 waren opmerkelijk goede jaren die het niveau van de afgelopen 5 jaar redelijk hoog houden.quote:Op donderdag 11 februari 2010 17:30 schreef Perrin het volgende:
Geen idee wat ze daar allemaal meetellen aan discoveries, maar ontdekte olie piekte al in de jaren '60:
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Maar geen toeval natuurlijk. Dat waren de jaren dat olie weer duur werd. Als een vat olie $80 mag kosten dan is er opeens weer heel wat te vinden. Plus dat oliemaatschappijen nu ook meer dan vroeger investeren in het vinden van nieuwe velden.quote:Op donderdag 11 februari 2010 17:34 schreef waht het volgende:
De geschatte gevonden reserves in 2007 en 2008 waren meen ik meer dan dat er werd verbruikt, dat was echter de eerste keer sinds begin jaren tachtig.
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