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Posts tagged "Unconventional Oil"

CSIS – IEA Medium Term Oil & Gas Market

Posted by Matt Beer - November 8, 2011 - Climate Level 4, Energy, Level 4, Natural Gas, Oil, Peak Oil, Peak Oil Level 4
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I would of liked to be able to post the 2011 version of this up but every version of CSIS.org recording of the event (youtube, www.csis.org, itunes) seems to end after 7 mins. Still the 2010 version is quite similar and should give you a decent summary of the shorter term issues and what is in the pipeline for oil and gas at the moment.

Check out the csis.org page on the event for the slides that accompany the presentations.

Biofuels, Conventional oil, GDP, Natural Gas, Oil, Unconventional Oil, Video

CSIS – International Energy Agency WEO 2010 Summary

Posted by Matt Beer - November 7, 2011 - Climate Destabilisation, Climate Level 4, Coal, Energy, Level 4, Natural Gas, Oil, Peak Oil, Peak Oil Level 4, Renewables, Sustainable Economy
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Definitely worth a watch. The big boys from the IEA give their take on the very important annual World Energy Outlook report which was released November 2010.

Click the link for the csis.org page detailing the event, the speakers and the slides that go with the presentations.

Climate Change, Conventional oil, Economy, environment, fossil fuel, GDP, Global Warming, Oil, sustainability, Transport, Unconventional Oil, Video

Adam Brandt – GHG Emissions from Oil Substitutes

Posted by Matt Beer - November 6, 2011 - Climate Destabilisation, Climate Level 4, Energy, Level 4, Oil, Peak Oil, Peak Oil Level 4
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I have seen Adam Brandt’s name pop up a few times in some of the life cycle analysis literature I have seen so it was good to see him speak as part of the Stanford Uni series I am slowly making my way through.

You can probably divide this talk up in to 2 parts. The first 15 mins is quite a good overview of the whole peak oil debate and Adam’s quite reasonable take on it. The problem is of course is it is virtually impossible to predict the future (which is the whole point of the rest of the talk) but Adam goes through a lot of the issues which helps wrap your mind about what the various future pathways could be. But in general, conventional oil will decline and other oil/liquid fuel sources will replace this. I am in broad agreement with his conclusions that oil prices will have to be in the $100-150 per barrel range to facilitate this and that greenhouse gases will rise as we make the switch. Although it doesn’t capture what oil price shocks and environmental shocks from climate change will do.

The second part of the talk becomes a lot more academic-y as Adam describes his computer simulation model that attempts the impossible of seeing what the future will look like. His approach is take a whole bunch of variables, such as economic growth, oil depletion, carbon tax, etc and show what the various ranges of what could happen with these would do to the overall oil supply picture. Adam is well aware of the limitations of doing this but also sees the value in using these types of models to gain a better understanding of how all these different variables tie together, with the overall aim of trying to find some win-win policy options that would be “robust” no matter what assumptions we decide to make about the future or the uncertainty of these assumptions.

So definitely check out the first 15 mins and then you can judge if you want to check out the rest.

Adam Brandt, Climate Change, Crude Oil, fossil fuel, Oil, Transport, Unconventional Oil

Canada’s Oil Sands, Warts and All – Stanford Uni

Posted by Matt Beer - September 10, 2011 - Climate Destabilisation, Climate Level 4, Level 4, Oil, Peak Oil, Peak Oil Level 4
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February 14, 2011 – Bob Skinner, Advisor to Statoil in Canada, discusses the challenges facing the ever growing industry focused on extracting the vast oil sand resources of Canada touching on interwoven difficulties in economic, social and environmental terms. This talk made me appreciate the variability and reality of just how hard it is to develop these oil sands resources.

Canada, EROEI, Natural Gas, Oil Sands, Stanford University, Unconventional Oil, Video

The Future of Oil – Stanford Uni

Posted by Matt Beer - September 10, 2011 - Oil, Peak Oil, Peak Oil Level 4
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Roland Horne, Thomas Davies Barrow Professor in the School of Earth Sciences at Stanford University, discusses the future of oil, mainly that of peak oil, production rates and where future oil will come from.

Conventional oil, OPEC, Peak Oil, Production, Reserves, Unconventional Oil, Video

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