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- Matt Mushalik (MEAust, CPEng) Sydney
![South China Sea: ‘Leave immediately and keep far off’ Fig 1: U.S. Navy P-8A Poseidon reconnaissance plane overflying disputed Spratly islands 11/8/2018 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dodbqgKn8js https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/world-asia-45152525/south-china-sea-leave-immediately-and-keep-far-off Fig 2: Subi reef location in […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/US-Poseidon-over-Zhubi-Reef_Aug2018-115x115.jpg "Peak oil in China and the Asia Pacific (part 2)")
![Who can give a National Energy Guarantee? A better energy future for Australia https://www.energy.gov.au/government-priorities/better-energy-future-australia Something must have happened at a brown coal fired power plant in Victoria, on 2 August […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/Victoria-power-generation-3Aug2018-115x115.jpg "Victoria brown coal power plant lost 1,600 MW over 4 hrs")
![3 complacent governments (Howard, Rudd/Gillard, Abbott) released 3 flawed Energy White Papers (2004, 2012 and 2015) which have promoted and facilitated massive LNG export projects on Australia’s West, North and […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/Depletion_East_Coast_Conventional_Gas_Reserves_GSOO_2015-115x115.jpg "Australia is exporting itself gas poor, plans LNG import terminals")
![The latest report “Integrated System Plan” of the Australian Energy Market Operator (AEMO) assumes that power consumption on Australia’s East Coast will stay rather flat despite government engineered immigration resulting […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/NSW-power-demand-price_16Jul2018-115x115.jpg "Sydney go on your rooftops and save power for 3 million new immigrants")
![Contrary to common assumptions that the US is on the cusp of energy independence US crude oil imports averaged 7.8 mb/d in the last 12 months. 3.5 mb/d came from neighboring […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/US_crude_imports_by_country_1973-Apr2018-115x115.jpg "US crude oil imports and exports update April 2018 data")
![US State Department Special Briefing by the Director of Policy Planning 2/7/2018 MR HOOK: “…..Our focus is on getting as many countries importing Iranian crude down to zero as soon […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/South-Korea-crude-imports_refcap-1990-2017-115x115.jpg "South Korea’s crude oil imports from Iran")
![Here we go again. Another US President asks Saudi Arabia to pump more oil, despite the so-called US shale oil revolution. Fig 1: Is a tweet enough to make Saudi […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/Trump_tweet_Saudi_pump_more_30Jun2018-115x115.jpg "Saudi Arabia was supposed to pump almost 14 mb/d in 2018")
![This post uses data released by the BP Statistical Review in June 2018 https://www.bp.com/en/global/corporate/energy-economics/statistical-review-of-world-energy.html Oil production seems to have left its bumpy 6 year long (2010-2015) plateau of 8.4 mb/d […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/Asia_oil_production_1965-2017-115x115.jpg "Peak oil in Asia Pacific (part 1)")
![We see the impact of the conventional oil peak in Venezuela. As an example let’s look at the El-Furrial field. Fig 1: Not La-Hora-Zero (yet) but low voter turn-out for […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/Autopista-Caracas-115x115.jpg "Peak oil in Venezuela: El Furrial oil field")
![As the US has withdrawn from the Iran nuclear deal and tensions increase between Israel and Iran there can be no doubt that this will impact on oil supplies. Fig […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/Australian_crude_oil_imports_2004_Jan2018-115x115.jpg "Update on Australian oil import vulnerability May 2018")
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