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GOM oil after the US peak

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The following graph from Energyfiles shown by Matthew Simmons in a 2007 slide presentation explains the desperate fight for oil after the US peak in 1970

http://www.simmonsco-intl.com/files/UCSB.pdf

1970 US peak oil, together with 1st peak from shallow water

1971 Convertability of US dollar to gold discontinued. Increasing quantities of oil [...]

Sydney’s Metropolitan Transport Plan

My submission to the Metropolitan Transport Plan proposal

http://www.nsw.gov.au/metropolitantransportplan

is here:

26/5/2010 Comments on Metropolitan Transport Plan
http://www.crudeoilpeak.com/pdfs/37

Contents of this PDF file:

Summary

1  Time table of events 2010 – 2020

2  Why the Sydney Metropolitan Strategy is totally flawed

2.1  Population Scenarios

2.2 Planning hierarchy omits resource analysis

2.3 Financial crisis will not go away

2.4 Cancellation of Epping – Parramatta rail link

3  Why we’ll [...]

World hangs on offshore drip

Since a  May 2009 minimum of 71,524 kb/d crude oil production has recovered by 2 mb/d in February 2010 and is now basically back to where it was at the beginning of 2005, for that time of the year.

Let’s have a look at that hump on the bumpy production plateau which developed since a recession [...]

Western Australia’s Battle for Offshore Oil – Crude Oil dropped by 27% in 2009

The West Australian Department of Mining and Petroleum published its latest statistics for 2009 on 27/4/2010 http://www.dmp.wa.gov.au/7105_10347.aspx

Crude oil production dropped from 13.1 GL in 2008 to 9.5 GL in 2009. The following graph shows the stacked production profiles of all oil producing fields in WA:

We can clearly see the production battle out there in those [...]