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[Peak Energy] captain cracker, failing earnestly: . By the time the missing oil production in the gulf is back online (years, if ever) - Saudi will be in decline. Maybe that is why FEMA is trolling peak oil sites. Oh, and if Saudi pumps 500,000 extra barrels of sickly, sour, lumpy, crude, will it make a sound? What is the sound of one hand clapping, grasshopper?
[The Oil Drum] Refinery, Pipeline, and Rig Damage Information: Katrina forced the shutdown of at least eight oil refineries near the Gulf in Louisiana and Mississippi. The plants have a combined crude-oil processing capacity of about 1.79 million barrels a day, or 10.5 percent of total U.S. capacity.As Rigzone points out the impact will rapidly spread beyond the immediate vicinity.
[The Oil Drum | A Community Discussion about Peak Oil] An Evening Note on Katrina: AN EYEWALL REPLACEMENT AT THIS POINT IS NOT ALL GOOD NEWS...AS THEY ARE GENERALLY ACCOMPANIED BY A BROADENING OF THE WIND FIELD...SO THAT EVEN AS KATRINA WEAKENS THERE COULD BE AN INCREASE IN THE AREA THAT EXPERIENCES MAJOR HURRICANE FORCE WINDSIn any case, there's little time for significant weakening in any event, we're only a few hours away from landfall now. And no chance for a significant change of the storm track.
[Belly of the Beast] Deep Water Basins Will Save Us: Many of the discoveries are in low-permeability reservoirs that won’t flow at high rates and/or contain highly viscous crude oil. Many of the current exploration programs are targeting reservoirs below a thick canopy (5000 ft) of sedimentary salt.
[The Oil Drum] Hurricane damage revisited: However, in late September 2004, Hurricane Ivan caused significant disruptions to Gulf of Mexico operations, resulting in a loss of over 29 million barrels of oil through November 9, with a continuing disruption of more than 200,000 bbl/d (down from over 1 million bbl/d on September 14 and around 450,000 bbl/d in October) due to damage at platforms and other oil infrastructure in the Gulf. According to an assessment by the U.S Department of Interior's Minerals Management Service (MMS), seven platforms were destroyed and six had major storm damage.
[Peakoil.blogspot.com] Peak Oil News: Thus, the key oil issue in contemporary class politics in the US is not the one addressed by the Peak Oil/National Security paradigm, viz., the notion that US corporations and workers are economically dependent on an imported commodity that is increasingly becoming more "expensive" and that the political project of our era is to have a US economy self-sufficient in energy. The problem is that a significant minority of US workers see their only secure future in a neoliberal/globalised world with its main recalcitrants—the OPEC countries—policed by a military recruited from the US working class.
[Peakoil.com] Peak Oil News and Message Boards >> Peak Oil News and Message Boards: Peak Oil, Peak Oil Message Boards, Peak Oil Forums, Peak Oil News, Oil Peak, .As oil and gas producers in the Gulf of Mexico begin the arduous job of .
[Jameshowardkunstler.typepad.com] Clusterfuck Nation by Jim Kunstler: I wish the freakonomists were there with me during my various travels -- from Mexico to Greece to Alaska -- where I saw communities of various scales abandoned and in ruins because the populace couldn't find at sufficient cost and quantities the resources they have come to depend upon, from water to arable soil to fish in the sea to mineable minerals.
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