These Are The Currencies That Will Surge Or Tank If Oil Goes Past $100
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From the latest Morgan Stanley FX Pulse, this nice little infographic shows which currencies rise with oil (the ones at the top) and which ones dive with oil. Not surprisingly, heavy oil importers like the Swiss Frank, the yen, and the dollar would ...

Peak oil: We are asleep at the wheel | Jeremy Leggett
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Revelations that the Saudis have overstated their oil reserves are a timely reminder of the huge threat to the global economy • WikiLeaks cables: Saudi Arabia cannot pump enough oil to keep a lid on prices John Vidal's report on US diplomatic cables ...

Today in Green IT
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“Twilight in the Desert” isn’t just for conspiracy theorists anymore. This week’s big Wikileaks revelation concerns Saudi Arabia, where diplomats and oil engineers have apparently been warning for years that the world’s top oil producer is far closer ...

The Solution for Unrest in Your Gas Tank
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The unrest in Egypt has sparked a range of responses around the globe, including a big jump in the price of oil. Egypt is not a major oil producer but its strategic location has raised concern of disruption of oil supplies through the Suez Canal, an ...

OIL AND GAS: Markets shrug at cables suggesting looming Saudi supply crunch
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NEW YORK -- Reports of a leaked U.S. diplomatic cable expressing concern about Saudi Arabia's oil supplies raised plenty of eyebrows yesterday, but thus far, the energy markets seem unimpressed.… ...

WikiLeaks Reveals Saudi Oil Reserves Are Not What The World Thought
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A new WikiLeaks document reveals the amount of Saudi oil has been grossly misstated. Sadad al-Husseini worked for Aramco, one of the largest Saudi-owned oil companies until 2004. His job as an oil explorer led him to believe the oil reserves Aramco b ...

The Truth Behind Saudi Arabia's Oil Supply
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We?ve suspected for some time Saudi Arabia has less oil in the ground than they claim. Apparently so do diplomats in the U.S. State Department...at least, according to even more scintillating cables released from Julian Assange?s WikiLeaks website. ...

OIL AND GAS: U.S. experiencing drilling boom
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As oil companies, oil field contractors and landowners rush to tap new crude sources, oil drilling in the United States has reached rates not seen in a generation. Not since… ...

Oil and Gas Industry Drops Lawsuit Over Colorado Environmental Protections
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DENVER, Colorado , February 9, 2011 - The Colorado Oil & Gas Association has withdrawn its lawsuit against the Colorado Oil and Gas Conservation Commission over rules to protect drinking water, wildlife, and residents living near oil and gas operati ...

I've Got to...Keep...Control: Dancing the Time Warp to Explain Away Peak Oil [Casaubon's Book]
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(Yes, I will eventually explain this ;-)) I don't usually participate in the Huffington Post bashing that goes on at science blogs. Not because I don't often agree with it, but because my colleagues seem to have it covered when it comes to autism/va ...

Green: Leaked Cables Reveal U.S. Concerns over Saudi 'Peak Oil'
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Questions persist over whether Saudi Arabia's long-term reserves are overstated. ...

Leaked Cables Reveal U.S. Concerns over Saudi 'Peak Oil'
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Questions persist over whether Saudi Arabia's long-term reserves are overstated. ...

The World Is About To Hit Its Oil Price "Recession Threshold"
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In the latest monthly IEA oil report, the agency makes a special comment about oil prices as a percentage of global GDP: At 4.1%, the 2010 global oil burden, albeit below that of 2008 (5.1%), was already the second highest  following a major recessi ...

ENERGY MARKETS: PetroChina pays $5.4B for stake in Canadian oil sands
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China's largest oil and gas producer plans to purchase a gas field stake in Canada for $5.4 billion, the latest in a string of investments that will increase the presence… ...

There's An Unconfirmed Report Going Around That Saudi King Abdullah Has Died
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This just hit the internet, and we don't know if it's true. It's on IslamTimes , and frankly it doesn't read credibly because it ties his death to discussions about Egypt: Saudi Arabia's 86-year-old King Abdullah was discharged from a New York City ...

Quote of the Day
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The Stone Age did not end because of lack of stones, and the Oil Age will end soon and not because of lack of oil. -  Sheik Ahmed Yamani, 2000 Saudi Arabia Join the conversation about this story » ...

Letters: We must end our dependence on oil
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Eleven years after the last fuel protests demonstrated our dependence on crude oil, fuel prices have again become a hot political issue ( Saudi oil running out, US cables reveal , 9 February). Our transport system is dependent on a fuel which is ever ...

Oil and gas firms hit by hackers
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Hackers have run rampant through the networks of five multinational oil and gas firms for years, reveals a report. ...

Wikileaks: U.S. believes Saudi Arabia is running out of oil
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Filed under: Etc. , Green Culture , Middle East Peak oil, according to Wikipedia, is the point in time when the maximum rate of global petroleum extraction is reached, after which the rate of production enters terminal decline. Opinions vary on when ...

Watch Out America, China Is Coming For Your Oil And Gas!
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Today Canada's Encana Corp. agreed to sell half of its prolific Cutbank Ridge shale gas field in British Columbia to PetroChina for $5.4 billion. This is a big deal, outpacing Sinopec's $4.7 billion takeover of ConocoPhillips' stake in the Syncrude o ...

Saudi Oil WikiLeaks [Casaubon's Book]
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It was only a matter of time - Bart Anderson of Energy Bulletin even predicted it in the ASPO-USA predictions piece I put together this December! From the Guardian: The US fears that Saudi Arabia, the world's largest crude oil exporter, may not have ...

WikiLeaks May Have Just Confirmed That Peak Oil is Imminent
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It's getting more and more difficult to deny that an oil supply crunch is just a few years down the road, especially now that WikiLeaks has released cables revealing that Saudi Arabia's oil reserves have been exaggerated by as much as 40%, or 300 bi ...

Gas prices will keep going up, but there are ways to keep the costs down | Sam Laidlaw
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Despite optimism over a shale 'glut', gas prices will remain high. Yet the UK is well placed to ensure the lights stay on With tensions rising in Egypt and throughout the Middle East, the price of oil this week broke through $100 a barrel , its highe ...

Saudi Oil Production and Reserves - Reasons Behind Wikileaks Concerns
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Saudi Arabia tells us that they have lots of oil, but if we look at graphs of their historical production, there is nothing that looks like an upward trend. In fact, recent production is lower than it was in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This is a ...

Here's Why You Don't Need Wikileaks To Know That Saudi Oil Reserves Are Overstated
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Saudi Arabia tells us that they have lots of oil, but if we look at graphs of their historical production, there is nothing that looks like an upward trend. In fact, recent production is lower than it was in the late 1970s and early 1980s. This is a ...

DOE Taps Oil and Gas Expertise for Low-temp Geothermal Development
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Federal researchers hope to bridge the gap between fossil fuels and renewable energy by tapping into vast amounts of low-temperature geothermal resources in America's oil and gas wells. ...

Palm oil giant vows to spare most valuable Indonesian rainforest
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Golden Agri-Resources – the world's second highest palm oil producer – bows to pressure from the west The world's second biggest palm oil company has agreed to halt deforestation in valuable areas of Indonesian forest, bowing to pressure from western ...


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