Russia & Central Asia

Shura member calls for oil production curbs in Saudi Arabia
Argentina halts Chile natural gas exports

Russia… energy priority #1

Caspian CPC May oil exports fall 9.5% vs April

Indonesia says good-bye OPEC, hello peak oil
Global net oil exports have declined for 2 years

CFTC to examine oil traders' intent, ex-officials say
Russian oil output down 0.3% in Jan-Apr 08
Behind skyrocketing oil prices

Gordon Brown: The oil crisis is a global problem requiring global solutions
We're not yet at Hubbert's peak - call it instead 'de facto peak oil'
California mayor: How will local governments respond to large increases in energy bills?
Russia worried as oil production slides
New: Immer neue Preisschocks (+ Fatih Birol interview in German)

Oil Reserves: Where Ghawar goes, the rest of OPEC follows
Oil price "head fake"?
CSM: Has Russian oil output peaked?

Reinventing Collapse by Dmitry Orlov released
Panel Discussion: James Howard Kunstler and Nikos Salingaros
How the government could pay us to stay home and garden
Carolyn Baker: Rapid unraveling and the decline of adolescent America

Bush to Arab nations: You're running out of oil

Russian energy chief urges gas export rethink
Saudi Arabia: The king versus the radicals

It is a supreme irony that a wealthy Bedouin should be playing the role of a tough-love drug counselor to the world's oil-addicted consumers even as he continues to be the globe's biggest pusher

As Gazprom goes, so goes Russia
Is ExxonMobil's future running dry?
Mines engineers in pivotal position, Yergin tells grads
Scientific American: Nuclear fuel recycling - more trouble than it's worth
World coal demand has prices skyrocketing

Saudi Arabia's Ghawar isn't sinking (but has apparently moved)
Russian oil: Trouble in the pipeline
OPEC sees no oil shortage, would pump more if needed

Indonesia mulls Opec withdrawal
Saudi fears of high oil prices fade
Russia agrees 40% rise in energy prices