Category Archives: oil prices

Is peak oil dead? BP energy outlook 2018.

Is peak oil dead?  This is the intriguing question raised by BP’s 2018 energy outlook.  Since the collapse in the oil price in 2018 the conventional wisdom has been that peak oil is dead.  The arguments do not for once … Continue reading

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Will OPEC fix the oil price?

Will OPEC fix the oil price?  A few days ago the cartel met to try to agree production cuts.  The aim?  To push the oil price up from where it alternates between $45 and $50 a barrel to between $50 … Continue reading

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New years predictions

Predicting the future is a mugs game, as Andy wrote in our book, but here it goes with new years predictions as is customary at this time of year…. Energy supply There will be no power cuts in the UK … Continue reading

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The oil price falls yet again

The oil price falls yet again.  This time the latest drop is due to what is happening in China.  This site has put various theories for the oil price falls over the last year.  A price fall that took almost … Continue reading

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One thing we have learnt this week- Saudi oil

The New York times has discovered something very interesting this week about Saudi oil and global energy prices.  One of the big mysteries about the current low oil price is why the Saudis keep pumping the stuff.  After all they … Continue reading

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