Oil & gas

	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

Growth

	The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function
	— Albert Bartlett

Albert Bartlett links the growth of population growth as the fundamental factor influencing energy consumption. The video Arithmetic, Population, and Energy covers exponential increases with examples in population growth, energy growth and peak oil theory.

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

• OPEC will not decrease demand even if price goes below US$20 - 2015-01-09
• [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