Oil

Growth

The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function -Albert Bartlett

Albert Bartlett links the growth of population growth as the fundamental factor influencing energy consumption. The video Arithmetic, Population, and Energy covers exponential increases with examples in population growth, energy growth and peak oil theory.

Production Sharing Agreements

• Production sharing agreement - PSA
• Crude Designs - US/UK control over Iraq's oil using PSA's

Oil output

• Fears emerge over Russia’s oil output
• Drilling Deep And Flying High - new oil prospects in Brazil
• Economist's warning: Oil supplies are running out fast
• The myth of peak-oil - about the abiotic theory

News items relating to oil price

• Wikinews dynamic crude oil price
• News:Australian airline to increase airfares - 2008-06-13
• News:Dow plunges as oil prices break records - 2008-06-06, US$139.12
• News:Oil price reaches new high - 2008-05-23, US$135
• News:Price of crude oil reaches new record high - 2008-05-11, US$122.84
• FT.com: Oil climbs above $110 as dollar falls - 2008-03-13
• News:Crude oil price reaches new high - 2008-03-01, US$102.59/Barrel
• News:Chávez warns oil prices could double if US invades Iran - 2007-11-19
• News:Crude oil passes US$94.00 a barrel; sets new all-time record high - 2007-10-31
• News:Oil prices reach all-time high; pass US$91.00 per barrel - 2007-10-26
• News:Oil prices rise after Alaskan field shuts down - 2006-08-07, US$75.99/Barrel
• News:Oil prices surge over $75 a barrel to a record high - 2006-04-21
• News:Oil price falls on inventory report - 2005-09-08, US$63.95/Barrel
• News:Oil prices fall as reserves are released - 2005-09-02, US$67.90/Barrel

April 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill

• Wikipedia article on the spill
• Wikipedia article on the explosion
• Alex Jones on the spill
• Salbuchi - The Well From Hell - Part 1 (YouTube) | Part 2
• First Amendment suspended in the Gulf of Mexico as spill cover-up goes Orwellian
• BP coffee spill comedy skit

See also

• w:List of energy topics
• w:peak oil
• w:Oil reserves
• w:Price of petroleum
• w:Oil price increases since 2003
• The end of oil.pdf - Bob Lloyd's essay
• What about the tar sands such as in Alberta and Venizuela?
  • News:Norway purchases Canadian oil sands company - 2007-04-30
• Renewable energy
• Alternative fuel
• Battery electric vehicle
  • Tesla Motors
  • w:Tesla roadster
• Opinion: Oil price, demand or supply driven?
• Oil drum - discussions about energy and future
• Oilwatch Monthly
• US embassy cables: Saudi oil company oversold ability to increase production, embassy told