Stories tagged with "malaysia"

A Visit To Malaysia

Posted by Big Gav on August 3, 2008 - 11:27am in The Oil Drum: Australia/New Zealand
Topic: Miscellaneous
Tags: malaysia, original, palm oil, petronas, rubber [list all tags]

I spent a week in Malaysia back in June, loafing about in the sun on the island of Langkawi. While I mostly tried to ignore the news flow, I did read the local paper each day and there seemed to be plenty of energy related stories on the boil. These ranged from prominent exposure of the global "energy and food crises" to more locally focused issues, which I'll take a look at in this post.

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Palm Oil -- The Southeast Asia Report

Posted by Dave Cohen on January 30, 2007 - 6:15pm
Topic: Alternative energy
Tags: biodiesel, food costs, indonesia, jatropha, malaysia, oil palm, palm oil, rainforests [list all tags]

In an effort to broaden our coverage at The Oil Drum, this Southeast Asia report focuses on the tragic consequences of cultivating palm oil (mongabay.com) to produce biodiesel fuel.


Palm Oil plantation in Indonesia. Fires in background.
Source: rainforestweb.org

It is a sad story in which the cure is sometimes worse than the disease. When you see the magic, please pay close attention.

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World Oil Exports: A Comprehensive Projection

Posted by Prof. Goose on October 10, 2006 - 9:13am
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: algeria, argentina, azerbaijan, canada, colin campbell, colombia, denmark, ecuador, egypt, eu, exports, iran, kazakhstan, kuwait, malaysia, mexico, norway, oil exports, oil prices, peak oil, qatar, russia, united arab emirates, united kingdom, venezuela [list all tags]

[editor's note, by Prof. Goose] This is a guest post by lads.

This article is a first simplistic (but comprehensive) assessment of World Oil Exports, here defined has the total amount of liquid hydrocarbons that are surpluses in producing countries. This assessment is made by projecting in to the future fixed change rates that reflect current trends in liquids production and consumption in countries where presently the difference between the two is positive. The outcome of this assessment is worrisome.

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