The Oil Drum

This is the last of the posts that deal with the content of the ASPO Conference last week in Houston. I will have my usual personal closing review tomorrow. As I hope you will gather, it was full of information and somewhat intense. And that did not include talking to folk in the breaks, which expanded a lot on what was being said in the papers. So if you want to think of this as the first commercial for next years meeting (which will be in California) then you’re right again. And just to remind you, the earlier posts were a report on the Workshop day, the first morning report, the rest of Thursday, and then Friday morning. A quick thanks to all, and it was more fun than I had even hoped to meet so many of the TOD folk, as well as so many others – thank you all, and of course, a much bigger thank you to the organizers for putting this on. The result, gentle folk, was well worth the effort.

We rejoin the meeting just as we sat down to lunch, and a talk by Houston Mayor Bill White who has the enviable distinction of having Matt Simmons as the Treasurer of his Campaign Committee. He acknowledged Matt as a prophet (with all that usually brings). He sees the current situation as one that comes down to a race between depletion and technology. It is not possible to give a political speech and create more oil fields. It is not possible by giving a political speech to create a hydrogen economy either immediately or in the practical future. It is not possible by giving a political speech to over-ride the laws of physics.

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Peak & Decline of World Oil Production

ASPO Week in Houston (Oct. 17-20) will consist of four days of high-level energy discussions,
including a pre-conference day and post-conference day, daytime and evening presentations, and
mix & meet receptions with speakers and sponsors. In addition, we've planned field trips to an
oil well drilling rig and Refinery Row, our nation's largest, on the Houston Ship Channel.

Under the fold, the conference newsletter.

“Houston ... we have an Opportunity: Smart Steps for Another Giant Leap.”

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ASPO Week in Houston will consist of four days of high-level energy discussions, day and evening presentations, and mix & greet receptions with speakers and sponsors. In addition, we've planned field trips to an oil well drilling site and Refinery Row on the Houston Ship Channel, our nation's largest refining and petrochemical center. It is a $15 billion complex that stretches 50 miles from the Port of Houston, past the NASA Space Flight Center, and ends at Galveston and the Gulf of Mexico. We adapt our Conference theme from the historic words transmitted by U.S. astronauts from space to Mission Control in Houston. (A list of speakers and much more under the fold...)

Steve Andrews, ASPO co-founder, discusses the latest IEA report with John Kilduff (Man Financial energy analyst and CNBC contributor). Cheers Steve!