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The Oracle of Oil, book review

June 6, 2016October 14, 2024 By David Strahan Comment Closed

THIS is a curious time to publish a biography of M. King Hubbert. The story of how this brilliant but irascible Shell geologist accurately forecast in 1956 that US oil production would peak and go into terminal decline by 1970 is by now well worn. (more…)...

Reasons to be fearful

July 29, 2013March 18, 2018 By David Strahan Comment Closed

This article was first published in New Scientist, 27 July 2013. DOOM-MONGERS of the climate variety might want to look away now – we apparently have more time to save the planet. A recent study published in Nature Geoscience suggests it will warm more slowly than feared, perhaps buying an extra decade for action. (more…)...

Europe’s carbon price is down but not out

June 27, 2013March 18, 2018 By David Strahan Comment Closed

This article was first published in New Scientist, 27 June 2013. THE world's biggest carbon market, the European Union Emissions Trading Scheme, is now widely regarded as a basket case. (more…)...

Inside the frack-heads’ not-so-secret agenda

December 14, 2012March 18, 2018 By David Strahan Comment Closed

This piece was first published in the ODAC Newsletter, 14 December 2012. The announcement on Thursday that the government is lifting its moratorium on fracking held all the surprise of turkey on the Christmas menu. (more…)...

What price Iraq?

October 16, 2012March 18, 2018 By David Strahan Comment Closed

This article was published in Middle East Oil & Gas Monitor, 16 October 2012. The fate of the world economy depends critically on Iraqi oil, according to a report from the International Energy Agency (IEA) published last week. (more…)...

Liquid air: the birth of the nitrogen economy

October 1, 2012March 18, 2018 By David Strahan Comment Closed

This article was first published in gasworld in September 2012. Everybody’s heard of the hydrogen economy, with its promise of limitless low carbon energy. But after decades of R&D, the dream seems scarcely any closer. Apparently still confounded by major technical challenges, the hydrogen economy remains an elusive mirage – always ‘just 10 years away’. (more…)...

Peakonomics: Mitt Romney and $100 diet

September 6, 2012March 18, 2018 By David Strahan Comment Closed

This article was published in NorthAmOil, 6 September 2012. There seems to be a rule that every US presidential hopeful must promise energy independence but never deliver. (more…)...