Stories tagged with "matthew simmons"

Peak Oil Media IEA 2008 WEO Edition

Posted by JoulesBurn on December 18, 2008 - 6:07pm
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: fatih birol, iea weo 2008, matthew simmons, robert hirsch [list all tags]

The 2008 World Energy Outlook recently released by the International Energy Agency (IEA) continues to garner comments. The Energy Bulletin pointed to a video of George Monbiot interviewing Fatih Birol, the Chief Economist for the IEA, on the 2008 WEO. Monbiot asks some rather pointed question about why the outlook presented this year is so much more dire than last year. He asks for an apology. Next is an audio roundtable with host Jim Puplava interviewing Matt Simmons and Robert Hirsch. Topics include the 2008 WEO as well as the current financial malaise and its implications for oil production and prices. Direct links to these are below the fold.
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Floating Offshore Wind Power

Posted by Big Gav on December 9, 2008 - 9:33am in The Oil Drum: Australia/New Zealand
Topic: Alternative energy
Tags: blue h technologies, floating offshore wind power, matthew simmons, norway, offshore wind power, statoilhydro, sway, wind power [list all tags]

Matthew Simmons has received quite a bit of press in the past week, after his Ocean Energy Institute floated a proposal to build a $25 billion, 5 GW wind farm in the Gulf of Maine.

Offshore wind farms have a number of advantages over their land based equivalents - they are less hazardous to wildlife, have fewer objections raised on NIMBY concerns and winds are generally stronger over the oceans than they are over land.

Ideally, offshore wind farms will be far enough away from land to avoid being seen from the shoreline, eliminating any residual objections from local residents. Current offshore projects tend to site turbines in waters less than 20 metres deep - going further offshore would mean locating them at depths of 50 meters or more, which is too deep to build supporting towers or trusses down to the sea floor at an affordable cost.

A solution to this problem is floating platforms - one of the key elements of the Ocean Energy Institute proposal. In this post I'll look at some of the work being done to develop floating offshore wind power platforms in order to enable these sorts of schemes to become a reality.

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Worthwhile Videos

Posted by Gail the Actuary on October 12, 2008 - 9:57am
Topic: Miscellaneous
Tags: brutus platform, julian darley, matthew simmons, original, peak oil, russia, video [list all tags]

What videos have you seen that you think others might be interested in? Here are a few I found:

From Peak Moment Television, this is Matt Simmons' 26 minute talk at the ASPO convention called, "Oil and Gas--The Next Meltdown:"

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Day 2 in Sacramento at the ASPO-USA meeting and The Hunt for Black Gold Open Thread

Posted by Heading Out on September 25, 2008 - 9:15am
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: aspo-usa, matthew simmons, original, the hunt for black gold [list all tags]

Ed's Note: The intent of this thread is to combine two different discussion items:

1. A one-hour special on the oil situation, The Hunt for Black Gold. It features a discussion of peak oil, an interview with Sarah Palin, Matt Simmons, Randy Udall, and a closer look at oil company profits, and a discussion of alternatives. It was shown on CNBC yesterday, and will be shown again today, Thursday, Sept. 25 at 1 a.m. ET and on Sunday, Sept. 28 at 10 p.m. ET.

2. Heading Out's discussion of Day 2 of the ASPO-USA conference, which can be found below the fold.

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Forecasts on Saudi Arabia liquids production

Posted by Luis de Sousa on July 29, 2008 - 8:45am in The Oil Drum: Europe
Topic: Geology/Exploration
Tags: aramco, colin campbell, jean laherrère, matthew simmons, sadad al-husseini, saudi arabia [list all tags]



This is a guest post by Jean Laherrère
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Peak Oil Media: Matt Simmons gets more pessimistic on CNBC, Heinberg, and others...

Posted by Prof. Goose on July 13, 2008 - 7:00pm
Topic: Demand/Consumption
Tags: andre angelantoni, david bell, janaia donaldson, kris can, matthew simmons, original, peak oil, peak oil media, phil hart, richard heinberg [list all tags]

A Matt Simmons phone interview on CNBC, in which Matt sounds a very loud and certain clarion call about our direction--calling it (potentially) "The Great American Disaster." I think it is safe to say that Matt has gotten pretty pessimistic, even doomerish lately.

Under the fold, more from Richard Heinberg with a great review of accelerating events, Phil Hart talks peak oil on Aussie TV, KrisCan interviews Andre Angelantoni about post-peak life, and David Bell of ASPO-Oz appears on Bloomberg.

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Peak Oil Media: Hirsch, Simmons, House Dem(s?) on Nationalizing Refineries, Klare, O'Reilly, and Gas is F*-ing Expensive

Posted by Prof. Goose on June 21, 2008 - 9:00am
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: house of representatives, matthew simmons, michael klare, peak oil, peak oil media, robert hirsch [list all tags]

Bob Hirsch talking "Worst Case Scenarios" for Oil...as in "maybe $500/bbl" in the next few years...with increasing uncertainty/volatility (yes, that's right, oil could snap back down to $100/bbl, but then snap back up even higher again in a few months...without even considering geopolitics and other "above ground factors," which of course we must.)

More under the fold--a video of the House Democrat(s?) Call for Nationalization of US Refineries, Matt Simmons on the "Truth about Offshore Drilling," a quality interview with Professor Michael Klare on "The Geopolitics of Energy" with Jim Puplava of Financial Sense, an effective 30 second Aussie commerical "Gas is "F*-ing Expensive," and a Bill O'Reilly vid to make your head explode.

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Peak Oil Media: Simmons Says Raised Saudi Oil Output Is 'Drop in Bucket' on Bloomberg

Posted by Prof. Goose on June 17, 2008 - 6:00pm
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: matthew simmons, peak oil, peak oil media [list all tags]

(The Simmons video is 7 mins). Anyone have a link to T. Boone's comments (or other peak oil media) this week? If so, put it in the comments.

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Peak Oil Media - 31 MAY 2008

Posted by Prof. Goose on May 31, 2008 - 9:30am
Topic: Supply/Production
Tags: aaron task, amory lovins, henry blodget, marvin odum, matthew simmons, peak oil media, randy udall, rembrandt koppelaar, robert hirsch [list all tags]

The ELM (and the WSJ article yesterday) makes Yahoo Finance:

Henry Blodget and Aaron Task. Well worth watching!! Here's a link to the article (from which this video comes, that links to TOD in the last sentence).

Under the fold, more videos from TOD's own Rembrandt Koppelaar, Matt Simmons, Bob Hirsch, Amory Lovins, Randy Udall, Marvin Odum, and others...

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Book Review: World Made by Hand

Posted by Robert Rapier on May 1, 2008 - 9:30am
Topic: Miscellaneous
Tags: book review, evolution, hubbert peak, james kunstler, matthew simmons, peak oil [list all tags]

World Made by Hand by James Howard Kunstler

When I read James Howard Kunstler's (JHK) book The Long Emergency, it had a profound impact on me. I had been aware for many years that "running out of oil" was a serious matter. After all, I took on the challenge of peak oil in my graduate thesis in 1995. But my focus was more on finding a source that could replace oil as it ran out. Reading The Long Emergency was the first time it really hit me that I was missing a lot of key pieces of the picture.

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