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Peak oil brought forward moment of truth for Lane Cove Tunnel

Summary: Peak oil impacts in various ways on toll-ways financed by debt. As mentioned in a previous post

peak oil = peak credit

http://www.crudeoilpeak.com/?p=430

This means that it has become harder to re-finance or roll-over debt. Secondly, higher fuel prices reduce the paying capacity of motorists for tolls. Thirdly, a recession means fewer trips to jobs. [...]

What is the World prepared to pay for crude oil above 73 mb/d?

Data published by the Energy Information Administration (EIA, International Petroleum Monthly) in January 2010 show that crude oil production for October 2009 just exceeded 73 mb/d, a level reached several times in the last years during the 4th quarter. The increase is a result of US oil production going up (=recovery during a hurricane free [...]

Report Card 2009 (part 1) – Energy Policy – Has the Federal Government prepared for declining oil production?

This is the 2nd annual report card. The 2008 report is here: http://www.crudeoilpeak.com/?p=403

The 2009 report is structured and packaged by topic, rather than just month by month as in the 2008 report. The 1st part in this 2009 report card series is on how the government deals with peak oil in the process of developing [...]

Diminishing Returns of Fossil Fuel Energy Invested

When investing money, everyone calculates how profitable that is, either in interest paid from bonds, dividends received from shares or cash flows from a business. But for all these investments to be successful we need energy. So how about energy supply projects: how much energy do they return for the energy invested?

This is the 4th [...]