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- Matt Mushalik (MEAust, CPEng) Sydney
![This is part 2 of a series of articles on how US tight oil has impacted on oil markets The following graph shows US petroleum imports from OPEC countries starting […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/US_petroleum_imports_from_OPEC_2007_Jun2014-115x115.jpg "US oil dependency on Middle East has hardly changed since 2007")
![In part 1 of a series of articles on the impact of US tight (shale) oil we examine the impact on US oil consumption. Fig 1: US crude oil production […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/US_petroleum_products_supplied_1963_2014E-115x115.jpg "US oil consumption did not increase as result of US tight oil boom")
![One would think that an increase of oil related taxes would be used to reduce oil dependency and fund public transport infrastructure, especially as the Iraq war has entered yet […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Fuel_excise_19bn_10years-115x115.jpg "Team Australia to pay billions for new oil-vulnerable infrastructure")
![As already announced in July 2012, Sydney’s Caltex refinery (135 kb/d) has now closed, replaced by a fuel import terminal, holding approximately 45 to 60 days of inventory (Caltex Annual […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Caltex_refinery_closed_Oct2014-115x115.jpg "Sydney’s Caltex refinery closed as Chevron’s crude production and sales continue to decline")
![Fig 1: NorthConnex tunnel proposal http://northconnex.com.au/library.php The current congestion problem on Pennant Hills Rd is caused by 4 distinctive traffic flows overlapping in this narrow corridor: (a) trucks on the […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Pennant_Hills_Rd_AWDT_tunnel_2013_2019-2029-115x115.jpg "Sydney’s risky NorthConnex tunnel will not solve congestion problem")
![The future of UK’s oil and gas sector was a key issue in the independence campaign. Promises were made by Prime Minister Cameron to give more powers to Scotland. Would […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/UK_oil_production_1975_2013-115x115.jpg "Scots lost out in UK oil and gas endgame")
![We use the period starting with January 2010 when crude production had come back to 2005 levels after the exceptional year of 2009 Fig 1: US crude oil vs crude […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/US_crude_oil_growth_vs_rest_of_world_Jan_2010_May2014-115x115.jpg "US shale oil growth covers up production drop in rest-of-world")
![A lot has been written about Qantas’ FY 2014 losses of AU$2.8 bn but no analysis was done by the main stream media how the timeline of these losses are […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/Qantas_passengers_1999_2014-115x115.jpg "Qantas growing passenger numbers don’t increase revenue")
![Fig 1: Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott (centre, yellow helmet) likes biking There are only a few Prime Ministers in this world who are pro-actively biking. Tony Abbott is one […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Tony_Abbott_Mudgee_Blue_Mountains_biking_Aug2014-115x115.jpg "Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott pedalling in wrong direction")
![The Medium Term Oil Market Report of the International Energy Agency (IEA, Paris), published in June 2014, contains a graph which implies that US crude production will start to peak […]](https://crudeoilpeak.info/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/US_oil_production_2007_2019_IEA_MTOMR_2014_restacked-115x115.jpg "IEA report implies US crude production may start to peak 2016")
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