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Category Archives: Oil & Gas Fracked
Limits to growth: Oil & Gas Fracking sand
Preface. Economists don’t believe in “Limits to Growth”, but good grief, if sand can grow scarce for fracking of oil and gas, and everything else for that matter (see more peak sand posts here), then surely other important stuff has … Continue reading
Posted in Limits To Growth, Oil & Gas Fracked, Sand
Tagged fracked natural gas, fracked oil, sand
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Why “fracked” shale oil and gas will not save us
Preface. As early as 2011 experts were questioning how large fracked natural gas reserves were. The latest IEA 2018 report predicts shale oil/gas could start to decline by 2025, and all global oil as soon as 2023. Shale oil and … Continue reading
Posted in Natural Gas, Oil & Gas Fracked, Peak Natural Gas, Peak Oil
Tagged fracked gas, peak natural gas, shale gas, shale oil, will not save us
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IEA 2018 World Energy Outlook: Peak oil is here, oil crunch by 2023
Preface. Excerpts from the cleantechnica article below make it clear why there is likely to be a supply crunch as soon as the early 2020s, and the investment implications. Here’s what I’ve gleaned from other summaries of the report. Although … Continue reading
Posted in Investment, Oil & Gas Fracked, Peak Oil
Tagged decline rate, IEA 2018, oil discoveries, peak oil
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One of the biggest risks to the world’s financial system is the $3 trillion of debt owed by oil and gas firms
[ Yet another “crash coming soon” post, if it hasn’t happened already (I scheduled this article and others to appear a year or more later, since crashes always take longer to happen than you expect. Alice Friedemann www.energyskeptic.com author of … Continue reading
Posted in Bond Market, Crash Coming Soon, Debt, Oil & Gas Fracked
Tagged crash coming soon, debt, oil and gas
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Is Peak Oil dead? Not by a long shot! Remember Ladyfern?
Preface. Oil is finite. Period. Don’t be fooled by news stories that peak oil is dead, or we have reached peak demand. They’re all nonsense. Gail Tverberg at ourfiniteworld.com is especially good at explaining this. Worse yet, what we have … Continue reading
Posted in Oil & Gas Fracked, Peak Natural Gas
Tagged fracked gas, ladyfern, shale gas, tragedy of the commons
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How long will the marriage of fracked oil and tar sands last?
[ Below is a post by Art Berman which I found interesting because I’m concerned about whether enough diesel can be made in the future to keep trucks running. Light tight “fracked” oil is better at making plastics and gasoline … Continue reading
Posted in Arthur Berman, Oil & Gas Fracked, Oil (Tar) Sands
Tagged fracked oil, light tight oil, oil sands, tar sands
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Richard Heinberg: Will the US really be a major energy exporter?
[ I read this the day it was published (January 16, 2017) at resilience.org here, but thought it would be interesting to post in the future to see if the EIA predictions were as optimistic as Heinberg and Hughes thought … Continue reading
Posted in How Much Left, Natural Gas, Oil & Gas Fracked, Richard Heinberg
Tagged fracked, heinberg, natural gas, oil
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Minerals: Natural gas from Ugo Bardi’s “Extracted”
Preface. This is just a small sampling of what Bardi thinks might happen post fossil fuels, mostly shortened and reworded. Here are 7 other posts from this great book: Mining: Waste, Pollution, Destruction Ugo Bardi predictions of the future Minerals … Continue reading
Posted in EROEI Energy Returned on Energy Invested, Oil & Gas Fracked
Tagged EROEI, EROI, fracked gas, shale gas, shale oil, tight gas, tight oil
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Over and under-cooked oil — tar sands, “fracked” tight oil & gas, oil shale
[ This article discusses why it’s so hard and expensive to extract difficult oils like tar sands, oil shale, and tight “fracked” oil, for reasons such as: These are at the bottom of the resource pyramid, so there may be … Continue reading
Posted in Oil & Gas Fracked, Oil (Tar) Sands, Oil Shale
Tagged Canada, fracking, oil sands, oil shale, tar sands, tight oil, Venezuela
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Patzek 2016: Is U.S. Shale Oil Production Peaking?
Tad Patzek. March 16, 2016 Is U.S. Shale Oil & Gas Production Peaking? Part II: Oil Production. patzek-lifeitself.blogspot.com In Part I of this post, I discussed production of gas from the four largest shale plays in the U.S. Ordered by … Continue reading
Posted in How Much Left, Oil & Gas Fracked, Peak Oil, Tad Patzek
Tagged fracked oil, Patzek, peak oil, tight oil
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