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Posted by Heading Out on January 15, 2007 - 1:31am
Topic: Supply/Production

Well, for those of you who visit, this particular post is an occasionally updated catalog of some significant posts from the archives of The Oil Drum. To make it easier to move around I am putting it together in the same way as a book, in other words, with Chapters and Sub-Chapters. I suspect that, after a while, some of the Chapters will become large enough be placed in separate posts of their own – but we are going to have to see how that goes.

For now I will be deleting, at intervals, comments that don’t relate to the general intent of the site from this particular post. But if you have suggestions or comments on how it is going please post them. Obviously I will be visiting here a fair bit. That includes the organization, and how we are doing it.

I will be leaving most of the comments under the posts, since that is one of the benefits of the archive, though I will exercise the right to delete those that are a bit off topic.

This is not meant to be a wiki, or anything of that nature. But we have posts that are, in themselves of value, and by putting them together in a way that perhaps shows the inter-relation, and capturing input from some who, though wise in what we write about, don’t post very often, hopefully this will be of value also.

The site will also change as I realize (or get told) what is not working, or how better to put it together, or as I realize where all the posts have been. For now, please excuse the mess. (After a little bit the URL’s will disappear, but for now it helps me keep track – by the way – would leaving the dates on the posts help? – see 2.2.1) And if you wonder, I am starting with the first six months of our posts, from way back when . . . .)

Chapter 1. An Introduction (to be written later)

Chapter 2. Oil, and General Comments on Energy
2.1 The Units of Energy
2.1.1 Sources of energy by type
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/08/where-our-energy-comes-from.html
2.1.2 Annual data
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/05/where-do-we-actually-get-our-o...

Chapter 3. Where Oil comes from, where we find it how we get it out and other technology issues
3.1 How oil gets there

3.3 Oilfield Depletion and production issues
3.3.1 The story of Yibal
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/04/example-to-explain-worry.html
3.3.2 Flow restrictions on well production
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/04/why-oil-pumps-cant-pump-harder...
3.3.3 Math on production increases
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/04/some-easy-math-on-oil-producti...

3.4 Other Technology issues
3.4.1 Background
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/05/technology-will-solve-problem-...
3.4.2 The beer and sponge analogy
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/06/its-reader-participation-day-h...
3.4.3 Time needed for innovation
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/04/one-month-pregnancy.html

Chapter 4 Who has the Oil and who wants it

4.0 Introduction
4.0.1.Top oil producers in the world
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/07/it-could-be-close-run-year-for...

4.2 Russia
4.2.1 Moscow blackout
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/05/some-concerns-on-saudi-product...
4.2.2 first look at Russian production
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/06/russian-production-is-worth-cl...
4.2.3 Sakhalin Island delayed
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/07/crystal-ball-is-murky-today.html
4.2.4 Russian production is seasonal
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/07/but-russias-is-even-colder.html

4.5 Iran
4.5.1 Depletion rates
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/05/seriously-maybe-they-do-need-e...
4.5.2 Iranian field production data
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/07/sand-castles-by-sea.html

4.6 Mexico

4.7 Japan

4.8 Colombia
4.8.1 Colombian production and Saudi investment
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/06/keeping-home-fires-burning.html

4.8 India
4.8.1 Indian consumption levels
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/07/does-china-read-econbrowser.html
4.8.2 Indian oil price subsidies
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/07/it-could-be-close-run-year-for...

4.9 Iraq
4.9.1 Iraq, China and investment in Canada
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/06/balance-scale-is-swinging-nega...
4.9.2 Production and pipelines – 1
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/08/dateline-iraq-part-1-oil-produ...

4.10 Libya
4.10.1 The hope or the hype?
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/06/libya-new-great-hope-hah.html

4.11 The North Sea, Norway and the United Kingdom
4.11.1 Gas prices
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/04/critical-price-of-oil.html
4.11.2 Intimations of a problem
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/05/i-wish-we-could-be-this-optimi...
4.11.3 The DTI report and some concerns
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/06/back-to-drawing-board-in-uk.html
4.11.4 The British carbon bank concept
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/07/discussion-of-idea-of-carbon-t...
4.11.5 North Sea Depletion numbers
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/07/british-oil-production-falls-1...
4.11.6 First concerns for winter gas supply
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/07/englands-weather-is-not-as-war...
4.11.7 Problems with the earlier energy crisis
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/08/times-change-will-attitudes.html

4.12 Venezuela
4.12.1 Production data
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/05/historic-oil-production-from-v...

Chapter 5. Moving the Oil

5.1 Pipelines

5.2 Tankers
5.2.1 Tanker rates and the Chinese SPR
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/06/tankers-carry-oil-and-story.html

Chapter 6. Enhanced Oil Recovery and Unconventional Oil
6.1 Water flooding

6.2 Natural Gas and Nitrogen Injection

6.3 Carbon Dioxide injection (including sequestration)
6.3.1 Carbon Dioxide EOR 1
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/05/there-is-some-good-news.html
6.3.2 Carbon Dioxide EOR 2
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/05/cleaning-up-after-elephants-or...
6.3.3 Depletion and EOR by J
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/08/depletion-and-advanced-extract...

6.4 Microbial EOR
6.4.1 Microbial enhanced oil recovery
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/07/microbial-enhanced-oil-recover...

6.5 Tar and Heavy Oil Sands
6.5.1 Increase in oil sand production
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/07/not-as-good-as-it-sounds.html
6.5.2 Oil sand costs
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/08/still-think-oil-sands-are-answ...

6.6 Oil Shale

Chapter 7 Alternate and Renewable Liquid Fuels
7.1 Ethanol

7.2 Alternate biofuels
7.2.1 Using palm oil
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/07/does-china-read-econbrowser.html
7.2.2 Optimism from Brazil
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/05/some-good-news-from-brazil.html

7.3 Hydrogen
7.3.1 Icelandic plan
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/05/timetable-for-hydrogen.html

Chapter 8. Natural Gas – who has it, how much, and how to distribute it
8.1 United States
8.2 Russia
8.3 Qatar
8.4 Iran
8.5 Turkmenistan
8.6 Kazakhstan
8.7 Pipelines

Chapter 9. Natural Gas – alternate sources, NGL and LNG
9.1.1 Coalbed methane (10/15/2005)
http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2005/10/15/233731/96

Chapter 10. Coal
10.1.1 Death of the British Coal Industry
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/04/lesson-for-texas.html
10.1.2 Room and Pillar mining(Jan 15,2006)
http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/1/15/05035/7522
10.1.3 Longwall Mining of coal (01/22/2006)
http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/1/22/23527/4087
10.1.4 Surface Mining of coal (01/29/2006)
http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/1/29/15118/5245
10.1.5 Cleaning coal (02/27/2005)
http://www.theoildrum.com/story/2006/2/26/23365/4439

Chapter 11 Nuclear Energy

Chapter 12 Solar Power

Chapter 13 Wind, Hydro and Geothermal
13.1.1 Wind and the Environment
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/04/wind-and-great-great-great-gre...
13.1.2 Wind over Washington
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/04/wind-above-washington.html
13.1.3 Opposing wind energy
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/08/guess-who-opposes-cape-wind.html

Chapter 14 Other Alternative Energy
14.1.1 Vertical farming
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/06/vertical-farming.html
14.1.2 National Geographic on Alternate Energy
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/07/national-geographic-on-alterna...

Chapter 15. What You can do to help yourself/the Nation to save energy
15.1.1 Yankee first post
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/06/making-community-bettera-guest...
15.1.2 Oil and the Food Chain
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/06/our-oil-laden-food-chain.html
15.1.3 Balogh’s light bulb and other ideas
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/06/solving-peak-oil-is-about-over...
15.1.4 A helpful list
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/06/make-your-list-and-check-it-tw...
15.1.5 How Cuba coped
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/06/sustainability-of-cuba_29.html
15.1.6 Using paper or plastic bags
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/07/paper-or-plastic.html

Appendix 1. Projections on production

Appendix 2. Government and Other Reports . Movies, Speeches and Books

A.2.1 The Hirsch Report
A.2.1.1 Hirsch Report 1
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/05/leadership-can-help.html
A.2.1.2 Hirsch report 2 (also Demand Destruction)
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/05/peak-oil-lexicon.html
A.2.1.3 Hirsch Report 3
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/05/we-go-into-crisis-with-car-fle...
A.2.1.4 The Hirsch report revisited
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/08/discussing-prices-and-demand.html

A.2.2 CERA etc
A.2.2.1 CERA and condensate
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/07/did-anything-change.html
A.2.2.2 The CERA Report
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/08/more-thoughts-on-cera-report.html
A.2.2.3 Dr Yergin’s predictions then and now
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/08/are-pipes-calling.html
A.2.2.4 CERA vs ODAC
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/08/major-oil-projects-revisited-o...

Appendix 3. Manpower and Supply Issues

A.3.1 Manpower issues
A. 3.1.1 Petroleum engineering shortage
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/04/supply-needs-more-than-just-oi...
A.3.1.2 Future predictions on government response
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/04/future-challenges.html
A.3.1.3 A diminishing resource
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/05/another-diminishing-resource.html
A.3.1.4 Some student salaries
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/05/as-resources-fail.html
A.3.1.5 Department closure in Australia
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/06/as-technology-itself-gets-more...
A.3.1.6 Technical departments in colleges
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/08/discussing-prices-and-demand.html

Appendix 4. Global Warming Issues
A.4.1 Gulf Stream
A.4.1.1 First notice
http://www.theoildrum.com/classic/2005/05/living-in-interesting-times.html

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