Archive for the 'oil industry outlook' Category
From Beyond Petroleum to Big Polluter
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell February 8th, 2008 in greenwashing, oil industry outlook, oil sandsInteresting blog from the Canada’s Globe and Mail.
Andrew Willis from the Globe looks at the recent criticism BP has gotten for investing in oil sands. Notice the dichotomy between the city investors that argue BP should invest in oil sands and those worried by the climate that think its a stupid idea.
Fat Profits, But Big Oil is Shrinking
1 Comment Published by Andy Rowell February 1st, 2008 in Big Oil Profits, coal to liquids, oil industry outlook, oil reservesOver the next few days more oil companies will announce obscene profits.
But as the headlines are taken by calls for a windfall tax, the real story is one that has been brewing for some time. Big Oil can’t find enough oil. Yesterday, despite making £93m a day, Shell did not impressed the markets. The company’s […]
Shell Sparks Fears Over Reserves
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell January 29th, 2008 in oil industry outlook, oil reservesMaybe the oil industry is running out of reserves faster than it is letting on (see other blog), but Shell is to delay publication of key data about its oil reserves that it would normally have released alongside profits figures being published this week.
The decision is said to have disappointed some analysts, who have been […]
Shell: We Will Begin to Run Out of Oil in 7 Years
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell January 29th, 2008 in Peak Oil, oil industry outlookSomething of a “Shell feel” to the blog today. Three stories all about the oil major. First up a story from Davos.
Jeroen van der Veer, chief executive of Shell has warned that demand for oil and gas will outstrip supply within seven years, because conventional supplies will fail to keep pace with population growth and […]
“World Not Running Out of Oil” (but read the small-print)
0 Comments Published by Andy Rowell January 18th, 2008 in Peak Oil, oil industry outlook, oil reservesThe world is slowly going mad: we have the Premier of Alberta saying that the ecological downsides of extracting oil sands is a “myth”, yet we all know that oil sands development is the most ecologically destructive process ever invented by the oil industry (see below).
We also have the US government saying that the oil […]
Search
You are currently browsing the Oil Change weblog archives for the 'oil industry outlook' category.
Longer entries are truncated. Click the headline of an entry to read it in its entirety.
Latest
- How Your Flat-Screen Fries the Climate
- Bush’s Iranian legacy
- “We are holding ourselves hostage to the weather”
- Guess Who Helped Draw Up Iraqi Ministry Oil Contracts … The Americans
- The Ice-Free North Pole
- The Day that Justice Died..
- Biofuels Forcing 30 Million into Poverty
- Spat Between Russia and BP Escalates
- Its time to put the oil barons on trial …
- All is not well in Alberta..
Archives
- July 2008
- June 2008
- May 2008
- April 2008
- March 2008
- February 2008
- January 2008
- December 2007
- November 2007
- October 2007
- September 2007
- August 2007
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- December 2006
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- August 2006
- July 2006
- June 2006
- May 2006
- April 2006
- March 2006
- February 2006
- January 2006
Categories
- Advertising (3)
- African Oil (99)
- aircraft travel (51)
- Al Qaeda (5)
- Alternative energy (63)
- Amazon (12)
- American foreign policy (1)
- ANWR (7)
- APEC (1)
- Arctic oil (50)
- Asian oil and gas (7)
- Australia (12)
- Bali Conference (17)
- Big Oil Profits (75)
- Biofuels (53)
- Canada (7)
- Car manufacturers (1)
- Carbon Capture (2)
- carbon disclosure (1)
- Carbon Neutral (2)
- carbon offsetting (14)
- carbon reduction (2)
- carbon tax (6)
- carbon trading (1)
- cars (2)
- Caspian (1)
- Central Asia (8)
- China (48)
- Clean Development Mechanism (1)
- Climate Change (555)
- climate change impacts (173)
- climate sceptics (41)
- CO2 targets (6)
- Coal (11)
- coal to liquids (7)
- Commonwealth (1)
- Corruption (21)
- Cuba (1)
- Cycling (1)
- deforestation (1)
- development (19)
- El Nino (1)
- electric vehicles (1)
- electricity (4)
- emission trading (25)
- End Oil Aid (36)
- energy efficiency (7)
- energy mergers (1)
- energy policy (42)
- Energy Security (44)
- ethanol (6)
- European Union (28)
- exploration (14)
- famine (2)
- financing oil and gas (2)
- Flooding (1)
- forests (1)
- France (1)
- Fuel Efficiency (16)
- G8 (17)
- Gas (41)
- gas guzzlers (17)
- gas pipelines (3)
- Gas price gouging (1)
- Gas Prices (27)
- grassroots action (1)
- Green taxation (6)
- greenwashing (18)
- Gulf of Mexico (5)
- heavy crude oil (1)
- Heavy Oil (1)
- Heroes (1)
- human rights (5)
- Hurricane Katrina (1)
- Hurricanes (2)
- hybrids (4)
- impact on wildlife (48)
- India (4)
- indigenous rights (18)
- Iran (19)
- Iraq (127)
- Iraq Oil Law (28)
- kidnapping (4)
- Kyoto (1)
- Kyoto Protocol (1)
- Latin American oil (35)
- LNG (5)
- melting Antarctic (13)
- melting Arctic (24)
- melting glaciers (17)
- Mexico (2)
- Middle East (15)
- motor racing (1)
- nationalisation (8)
- non-fossil fuels (4)
- North Sea (3)
- Norway (1)
- nuclear (11)
- Nuclear energy (6)
- Offshore (33)
- Oil (486)
- oil and gas production (31)
- oil demand (9)
- oil exports (1)
- oil futures (3)
- oil industry front groups (1)
- oil industry outlook (43)
- Oil Price (53)
- oil reserves (23)
- oil rigs (4)
- oil royalties (12)
- oil sands (50)
- oil service industry (1)
- oil services (1)
- Oil Shale (21)
- oil subsidies (23)
- oil tankers (18)
- oil trading (3)
- oil waste (3)
- oil-for-food (1)
- OPEC (21)
- Peak Oil (25)
- petrochemicals (1)
- petrodollars (1)
- pipeline corrosion (17)
- Politics (281)
- Pollution (95)
- Post-Kyoto (3)
- poverty (1)
- price fixing (1)
- Price gouging (1)
- price manipulation (1)
- protests (15)
- Public Relations (38)
- record temperatures (2)
- refining (25)
- Renewables (8)
- resource curse (2)
- retailing (1)
- road pricing (2)
- Russia (13)
- Russian oil (50)
- Safety (49)
- Saudi Arabia (9)
- sea-level rise (8)
- Separate Oil and State (45)
- shareholder protests (2)
- Solar (6)
- space travel (3)
- spying (1)
- Sustainability (25)
- SUVs (14)
- tar sands (1)
- Tax havens (1)
- taxes (1)
- transparency (1)
- transport (21)
- UN (1)
- Unconventional gas (1)
- United Nations (2)
- US foreign policy (3)
- US politics (101)
- violence (46)
- War (46)
- Wind (3)
