World Oil Peak

Useful References and Links

http://www.globaloilwatch.com/ This site describes itself in this way; "Global Oil Watch is a premiere web portal providing breaking oil and gas news to energy industry professionals and analysts worldwide."

http://www.oilcrisis.com/ is devoted to The Coming Global Oil Crisis. If you google "energy crisis" this site appears first.

http://www.usgs.gov/ The US Geological Survey is a government agency that publishes useful data at three year intervals at the World Petroleum Congress. USGS numbers for oil reserves can be startlingly different until you realize they have their own definitions.

Hubbert's Peak, The Impending World Oil Shortage is a book by Kenneth Deffeyes now in its 6th printing as of October 2003. Published in 2001 but now available as a revised and updated paperback edition. The "overview" is excellent.

http://www.doe.gov/ Department of Energy, Office of Transportation Technology, also a government agency.

http://hubbert.mines.edu/ King Hubbert Center for Petroleum Supply Studies is by and for "oilmen" (there term). The newsletters contain useful information about oil and gas in North America. Also information about Canadian oil and tar sands.

http://policypete.com/ Policy Pete Also called Petroleum Policy and Geopolitics. A large site covering many areas. Many useful links. Unfortunately, Pete has "quit the Biz." But the archives are still up and useful.

http://www.simmonsco-intl.com/default.asp Simmons Company International has a very large website with many useful resources. Go to "Simmons News" to read what Matthew Simmons said March 2003 when he testified before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources. The Bush-Cheney team is aware of the issue of peak oil because international oil investment banker Matthew Simmons, who has written extensively and forcefully on oil and gas depletion issues, was an advisor to Vice President Cheney’s Energy Task Force in 2001. This loads fast but the rest are slow loading PDF files.

Special Report: The New Energy Crisis, Time Magazine, July 21, 2003. Available online here.