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IEA to blame for $100 oil spike – Groppe

December 11, 2007March 19, 2018 By David Strahan1 Comment
When the oil price soared to over $99 per barrel earlier this year, the cause was not surging demand, nor speculation, nor even impending peak oil, but a forecasting error by the International Energy Agency. (more…)...
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“Supply crunch” is not peak oil – IEA

November 7, 2007March 19, 2018 By David Strahan2 Comments
There is no contradiction between the International Energy Agency's forecast of long term oil supply growth to 2030 and a "supply crunch" by 2015, according to its chief economist Fatih Birol. Mr Birol insisted today that the short term crisis would not be caused by a fundamental shortage of oil but by entirely man-made factors. (more…)...
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Total boss on why oil production will never top 100 mb/d

November 2, 2007March 19, 2018 By David Strahan2 Comments
Christophe de Margerie has a reputation for forthright views and blunt speaking, but this week the chief executive of Total excelled himself by dismissing the IEA’s oil production forecasts as unrealistic, while coining an aphorism worthy of Donald Rumsfeld. (more…)...
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IEA reviews reliance on USGS resource estimates

October 31, 2007March 19, 2018 By David Strahan7 Comments
IEA chief economist Fatih Birol has told lastoilshock.com that the agency will review its use of resource estimates from the United States Geological Survey, in a move that seems certain to prompt a major downward revision of its long term oil production forecast. (more…)...
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Oil reserves over-inflated by 300bn barrels – al-Huseini

October 30, 2007March 19, 2018 By David Strahan7 Comments
The world’s proved reserves have been have been falsely puffed up by the inclusion of 300 billion barrels of speculative resources, according to the former head of exploration and production at Saudi Aramco, and this explains the industry’s inability to raise output despite soaring prices. (more…)...
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Oil has peaked, prices to soar – Sadad al-Huseini

October 29, 2007March 19, 2018 By David Strahan19 Comments
Sadad al-Huseini says that global production has reached its maximum sustainable plateau and that output will start to fall within 15 years, by which time the world’s oil resources will be “very severely depleted”. (more…)...
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We are all peakists now – Schlesinger

September 17, 2007March 19, 2018 By David Strahan1 Comment
Former US Energy Secretary Dr James Schlesinger today claimed that the intellectual arguments over peak oil had been won, and that in effect 'we are all peakists now'. (more…)...
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writefirstdraft David Strahan @writefirstdraft ·
25 Nov

Latest thoughts on the heat pump rollout:
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Me for HVP Magazine. Geeky but huge!
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writefirstdraft David Strahan @writefirstdraft ·
16 Jan 2024

Going by the poll of @Telegraph readers following my pean to the heat pump, it seems my work is not yet done! https://telegraph.co.uk/money/net-zero/why-get-heat-pump/

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Never thought I'd read an article like this in the Telegraph. So I wrote it!

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