Oil & gas

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	The world’s present industrial civilization is handicapped by the coexistence of two universal, overlapping, and incompatible intellectual systems: the accumulated knowledge of the last four centuries of the properties and interrelationships of matter and energy; and the associated monetary culture which has evolved from folkways of prehistoric origin.
	— M. King Hubbert

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

• 2015-03-14: The collapse of Big Oil: How the industry priced itself into oblivion
• 2015-01-09: OPEC will not decrease demand even if price goes below US$20
• 2014-12-16: All about the oil price collapse
• [airline to increase airfares] - 2008-06-13
• [plunges as oil prices break records] - 2008-06-06, US$139.12
• [price reaches new high] - 2008-05-23, US$135
• [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
• [oil price reaches new high] - 2008-03-01, US$102.59/Barrel
• [warns oil prices could double if US invades Iran] - 2007-11-19
• [oil passes US$94.00 a barrel; sets new all-time record high] - 2007-10-31
• [prices reach all-time high; pass US$91.00 per barrel] - 2007-10-26
• [prices rise after Alaskan field shuts down] - 2006-08-07, US$75.99/Barrel
• [prices surge over $75 a barrel to a record high] - 2006-04-21
• [price falls on inventory report] - 2005-09-08, US$63.95/Barrel
• [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?
  • [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
• Gold & silver