We are getting really mixed messages over what will come first: peak oil or peak supply.
First of this week was BP saying global peak oil demand will happen sometime between 2020 and 2030.
Then we had the UK Industry Task-Force on Peak Oil and Energy Security which published a report entitled “The Oil Crunch - a [...]

BP may think that a demand crunch will happen before a supply crunch.
But others disagree. Today, six UK leading companies have launched the second report of the UK Industry Task-Force on Peak Oil and Energy Security.
The report, entitled “The Oil Crunch - a wake-up call for the UK economy”, argues that oil shortages, insecurity of [...]

Various blogs on the site over the last few months have warned about what peaking global demand will do for the oil industry.
Last August in the blog “What About the Demand-Side Warning?” we quoted Lorne Stockman, the author of report on how reducing oil demand might affect the tar sands.

The Oil Drum is one of those great blogs that discusses energy and peak oil.
It has consistently and coherently been ahead of the curve, shall we say, when it comes to exploring the issue of peak oil and what we, as a society, should be doing about it.
But the New Year has brought an interesting [...]

Ever since the dark days of the Bush Administration we have known that the US Administration, under pressure from its oil buddies, can manipulate data. But that was mainly to do with climate.
We also know that the true amount of oil in the world’s depleting oil fields is one of the most hotly guarded topics [...]