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BASIC PETROLEUM STATISTICS FROM EIA ENERGY INFORMATION ADMINISTRATION (EIA) PETROLEUM PAGE EIA'S THIS WEEK IN PETROLEUM Weekly outlook updated Wednesdays. Or U.S. PETROLEUM BALANCE SHEET. CURRENT ENERGY COMMODITIES PRICES INTERNATIONAL ENERGY AGENCY'S (IEA) STATISTICS HOMEPAGE BRITISH PETROLEUM'S STATISTICAL REVIEW OF WORLD ENERGY Widely cited. OIL AND GAS JOURNAL RESEARCH CENTER BAKER HUGHES RIG COUNTS Interactive map. Count down over 50% since August '08. DISTRIBUTION OF OIL AND GAS WELLS IN THE U.S. BY PRODUCTION RATE EIA chart, 2006. 2007 ESTIMATE ON POTENTIAL IMPACT OF DRILLING OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF From the DOE: "... any impact on average wellhead prices is expected to be insignificant." SURVEY OF AVAILABLE DATA ON OUTER CONTINENTAL SHELF (OCS) ENERGY RESOURCES Download pdf from Department of Interior site. Wind, petroleum reserves emphasized. ENERGY EXPORT DATA BROWSER Make instant graphs of consumption, imports and exports for different countries and regions. Based on data from BRITISH PETROLEUM'S STATISTICAL REVIEW OF WORLD ENERGY. MAJOR OIL AND GAS FIELDS OF THE WORLD THE HIRSCH REPORT AKA THE PEAKING OF GLOBAL OIL PRODUCTION (pdf) The controversial report on the future of oil by Robert Hirsch.
ENERGY WATCH GROUP'S REPORT ON OIL DEPLETION ENCIRCLING THE PEAK OF WORLD OIL PRODUCTION The prescient 1999 article by Duncan and Youngquist. WHEN WILL WORLD OIL PRODUCTION PEAK? (pdf) 2005 presentation by EIA's Guy Caruso claims: Not soon. Of course the thinking has changed a bit since this nugget was released. INTERIM REPORT ON CRUDE OIL BY INTERAGENCY TASK FORCE ON COMMODITY MARKETS (pdf) Commodity Futures Trading Commission exonerates speculators. "A FEW SPECULATORS DOMINATE VAST MARKET FOR OIL TRADING" August 2008 article by David Cho in the Washington Post implicates Swiss firm Vitol. See also VITOL'S RESPONSE TO THIS ARTICLE claiming Cho had it all backwards. CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES OF THE 2007-2008 OIL SHOCK (pdf) 2009 paper in which James Hamilton, economist at UCSD, argues the price spike caused the Great Recession. WORLD OIL DEMAND'S SHIFT TOWARD FASTER-GROWING AND LESS PRICE-RESPONSIVE PRODUCTS AND REGIONS (pdf) 2009 paper by Dargay and Gately. THE HIDDEN COSTS OF IMPORTED OIL (pdf) 2003 paper by Milton Copulos, National Defense Council Foundation. Also Copulos' 2007 UPDATE (pdf) of this paper. COMPANY HISTORIES: CONOCO-PHILLIPS / EXXON MOBIL / ROYAL DUTCH SHELL / CHEVRON
NORTH AMERICAN NATURAL GAS SUPPLY ASSESSMENT (pdf) 2008 report from Navigant Consulting. EIA NATURAL GAS PRODUCTION DATA AND ANALYSIS PAGE CORN ETHANOL ENERGY BALANCE: AN UPDATE (pdf) 2002 USDA report. THE ECONOMICS OF ALTERNATIVE ENERGY SOURCES AND GLOBALIZATION: THE ROAD AHEAD Conference agenda with links to multiple expert presentations, November, 2009. THE ENVIRONMENTAL, ECONOMIC AND ENERGETIC COSTS AND BENEFITS OF BIODIESEL AND ETHANOL (pdf) 2006 article by Hill, Nelson, Tilman, Polaski and Tiffany. Or view article online. GEOTHERMAL RESOURCE MAPS From the DOE. DOE'S SOLAR ENERGY TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM HOW SOLAR ENERGY WORKS / HOW GEOTHERMAL ENERGY WORKS Information from the Union of Concerned Scientists. MANUFACTURING INEFFICIENCY Article highlights research by MIT's Timothy Gutowski, 2009. Gross inefficiency in the production of items like solar panels may cancel their total energy savings. EIA'S CONCENTRATED SOLAR POWER RESOURCE POTENTIAL MAP SOLAR RESOURCE DATA From the NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY "DOES A HYDROGEN ECONOMY MAKE SENSE?" (pdf) Ulf Bossel's critique, October 2006.
LONG- VERSUS SHORT-TERM ENERGY STORAGE: SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS (pdf) 2007 report prepared for DOE. U.S. WIND ENERGY PROJECTS From the American Wind Energy Association, 2008. Installed megawats by state. UNITED STATES WIND RESOURCE MAPS RENEWABLE ENERGY MAP From the National Resources Defense Council. TIDAL ENERGY PROJECT COMING TO PUGET SOUND April, 2009 Seattle Times article. It's too bad they can't harness the drizzle. See also CONCERNS ABOUT THE PROJECT. SUSTAINABLE ENERGY -- WITHOUT THE HOT AIR By David MacKay, Cambridge University. Download entire excellent book for free from Mackay's site or skip straight to downloading pdf here.
"A TRANSITION PLAN FOR SECURING AMERICA'S ENERGY FUTURE" (pdf) 88-point Dept. of Commerce plan presented to President-elect Obama does not mention human-powered transport. UNITED NATIONS POPULATION PROJECTIONS Demand. URANIUM RESOURCES AND NUCLEAR ENERGY (pdf) Report from Energy Watch Group, 2006. INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY'S NUCLEAR POWER REACTOR INFORMATION SYSTEM (PRIS) MIT ENERGY INITIATIVES RESEARCH PAGE NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY LABORATORY (NREL) ENERGY LEARNING CURVE (pdf) 2009 report from Public Agenda, in which we learn that Americans want energy independence but refuse to sacrifice for it.
WEEKLY RAIL TRAFFIC AND CAR LOADING REPORT From the American Association of Railroads. BUREAU OF TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS. See their annual report NATIONAL TRANSPORTATION STATISTICS. COMMODITY FLOW SURVEY 2007 preliminary report from BTS. THE AMERICAN PUBLIC TRANSPORTATION ASSOCIATION'S TRANSIT STATS PAGE All aspects. NATIONAL HOUSEHOLD TRAVEL SURVEY (pdf) Summary of 2001 survey. See also THE REPORT FROM THE 2004 NHTS CONFERENCE (pdf) PUBLIC ROAD MILEAGE AND VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED IN THE US (1920-2007) Downloadable chart from the FHWA, does not show recent significant declines in VMT. From the FHWA's HIGHWAY STATISTICS 2007 page. THE ROAD LESS TRAVELED: AN ANALYSIS OF VEHICLE MILES TRAVELED TRENDS IN THE US (pdf) 2008 Brookings Institution report shows VMT declining in 2007-2008. TRAFFIC VOLUME TRENDS SEPTEMBER 2009 (pdf) FHWA data shows sharp downturn of '08-'09 reversed in September. 2005 BRITISH TRANSPORT STATS (pdf) MOTOR VEHICLES PER 1000 PERSONS BY COUNTRY United Nations data, bar graph. URBAN MOBILITY REPORT Texas A & M's study of mobility and traffic congestion in US cities. AMERICAN GROUND TRANSPORTATION Portions of Bradford Snell's famous 1974 report to Congress. THE IMPACT OF PLUG-IN VEHICLES ON THE ELECTRICAL GRID (pdf) 2009 paper by Yang and McCarthy, UC Davis. Published in Environmental Management 2009. TURNER-FAIRBANK HIGHWAY RESEARCH CENTER INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS (ITS) PAGE
TRANSPORT ANALYSIS GUIDANCE SITE From the Department for Transport, UK. See also their INTRODUCTION TO TRANSPORT ANALYSIS. DETERMINING THE VALUE OF PUBLIC TRANSIT SERVICE From the VICTORIA TRANSIT POLICY INSTITUTE UNDERESTIMATING COSTS IN PUBLIC WORKS PROJECTS: ERROR OR LIE? (pdf) Paper by Flyvbjerg, Holm, Buhl highlights 'strategic misrepresentation.' "GETTING UP TO SPEED" Article on High Speed Rail by Jon Gertner, New York Times Magazine, June 10, 2009. A PRO-BUS REPORT (pdf) Bus lobby at work in changing times. TRENDS IN AVIATION (pdf) 2003 report from Transportation Research Board, 145 pages. AIRLINE ON-TIME STATISTICS From the Bureau of Transportation Statistics. STRATEGIES FOR INCREASING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF COMMUTER BENEFIT PROGRAMS (pdf) TRB report. DOE FUEL ECONOMY INFORMATION PAGE Compare gas mileage, emmissions and safety data for different motor vehicles. TRAFFIC: WHY IT'S GETTING WORSE, WHAT GOVERNMENT CAN DO 2004 article by Anthony Downs, Brookings Institution, includes explanation of the Principle of Triple Convergence. FUELING TRANSPORTATION FINANCE: A GAS TAX PRIMER (pdf) 2003 Brookings Institution report. HOW LARGE ARE TAX SUBSIDIES FOR MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVERS IN THE U.S.? (pdf) 2008 paper by Delucchi and Murphy, UC Davis. US DEPT. OF ENERGY'S STANDBY GASOLINE RATIONING PLAN (Abstract) White Market will be allowed. HOME GROWN:THE CASE FOR LOCAL FOOD IN A GLOBAL MARKET (pdf) 2002 paper by Brian Halweil, Worldwatch Institute. TRUCK TRANSPORTATION, MESSENGER SERVICES, WAREHOUSING 2007 INDUSTRY SURVEY From US Census Bureau.
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SIMMONS AND COMPANY Matt Simmons, author of Twllight in the Desert. Has been accused of losing his mind after his commentary on the Gulf of Mexico blowout. CLUSTERF*CK NATION BY JIM KUNSTLER Author of The Long Emergency has been predicting imminent collapse of Everything for many years. CAMBRIDGE ENERGY RESEARCH ASSOCIATES Not exactly batting 1000, but who is? SMART ENERGY A video podcast by Stanford professor Margot Gerritsen. ROBERT RAPIER The world needs realists. Dreamers are a dime a dozen. ASPO IRELAND NEWSLETTER Campbell. THE AMERICAN SOLAR ENERGY SOCIETY RATE CRIMES -- BRINGING TRANSPARENCY TO THE ECONOMICS OF SOLAR ENERGY Blog by Paul Symanski. SCARCE WHALES Blog by Morgan Downey, author of Oil 101. EARLY WARNING Stuart Staniford gets up in the morning and makes graphs. BIT TOOTH ENERGY Technical aspects of the oil biz explained by "Heading Out."
FORECAST/HINDCAST OF OIL SPILL TRAJECTORY based on West Florida Shelf ROMS. College of Marine Science, University of South Florida. GULF OIL SPILL TRACKER Satellite views and interactive maps on Skytruth.org. BP'S LIVE VIDEO OF THE GUSHER Obviously, not an independent source of pixels. U.S. DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY'S DEEPWATER HORIZON DATA SUMMARY NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR UNDERSEA SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY SITREP Blog by scientists aboard the Pelican. Pelican was the only research vessel studying the spill and their mission ended on May 16. See also: FEDS TELL PELICAN CREW TO STOP SPEAKING TO THE PRESS ABOUT THE UNDERWATER PLUMES OF OIL THEY FOUND THE GREAT BEYOND Blog on the site of the journal Nature. Reports from a reporter aboard the research vessel Pelican. DEEPWATER HORIZON OIL SPILL BLOG IOOS response to the BP spill, Rutgers University. GULF OIL BLOG UGA Dept. of Marine Sciences, still more underwater plumage. BPDEEPWATER REAL-TIME MARITIME TRACKING Although it seems some ships don't show up on the map. LATEST PHOTOS FROM THE NEW ORLEANS TIMES-PICAYUNE DISASTER UNFOLDS SLOWLY IN THE GULF OF MEXICO Photos on the Boston Globe site. Articles by 'Heading Out' on THE OIL DRUM. Speculation, but informed speculation. An article about toxic chemical dispersant from Bellona, a Norwegian environmental NGO. Toxicological Effects of Disperants and Dispersed Oil (chapter in a book) Killing the ocean to save the beach, while failing to save the beach. Killing the ocean is preferred by BP and the feds, because people won't be able to see very well what's going on in there. EPA'S LIST OF THE CHEMICAL COMPONENTS OF COREXIT EIA'S GULF OF MEXICO FEDERAL OFFSHORE PRODUCTION NUMBERS Pretty Paltry in the grand scheme. TRANSOCEAN'S DRILLING REPORT FOR DEEPWATER HORIZON, APRIL 20, 2010 (pdf) NEWS BLOWOUT Hurst's list of links to on-line articles about the blowout, updated regularly.
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