
What The Oil Drum Meant
I start with the chart above. It shows, from 1950-2012, world oil production annually (red curve, left scale), and real oi...

Modeling Bakken Oil Production: The Oil Shock M...
Several TOD commenters have asked for a simple and intuitive definition for how the shock model works, and it has always b...
The Oil Drum | The Way I Saw Things
I often find myself wondering where my life would be today had I not stumbled across The Oil Drum in 2005. I don’t know th...
Tech Talk - A Dickensian Situation revisited
Back in March 2005 I posted my first offering to the new site that Kyle and I had agreed to call “The Oil Drum.” Now, some...

Gas Stations Claim Oil Companies Block E15, FTC...
By John Voelcker Sep 1, 2013 Follow John Add to circle Non-ethanol gasoline pump Enlarge Photo Share on Facebook Share on ...
Emergy as a Metric of Sustainability
At The Oil Drum, many contributions have addressed the ERoEI, energy returned on energy invested, as a measure of energy e...

Campfire: Towards Homo Sapiens - A Movie Script
About 190,000 years after our species became anatomically modern, whether due to climate or laziness or chance, bands of h...
Drumbeat: September 01, 2013
Posted by Leanan on September 1, 2013 - 10:40am Egypt says preparing timetable for energy debts (Reuters) - Egypt is prepa...