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Iran Archive
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ME oil supply situation as Gaza war brings world into unknown territory (part 1)
Posted on October 25, 2023 | No CommentsME-oil-supplies-as-Gaza-war-The Hamas attack on Israel on 7 Oct 2023 was reminiscent of the 1973 Yom Kippur war which triggered the 1st oil crisis (see Appendix) after OPEC imposed an oil […] -
Uncertainties following the Abqaiq attack have shrunk the world’s safe oil reserves by around half (part 1)
Posted on October 16, 2019 | No CommentsThe world has returned to business as usual after the Saudis assured oil markets that production will be back soon and as oil prices have returned to pre-attack levels and […] -
Peak oil in Asia: where will the oil come from for the Asian Century?
Posted on September 10, 2019 | No CommentsAsian oil production peaked above 8 mb/d for the period between 2008 and 2016 (with spikes in 2010 and 2015). The 2015 peak was mainly caused by peak oil in […] -
Persian Gulf oil export peak after tanker attacks?
Posted on June 21, 2019 | No CommentsTankers holed and burning in the Gulf of Oman are not a good sign for future oil exports from the Persian Gulf. Fig 1: Norway’s Front Altair burning with 75,000 […] -
Iran Update
Posted on September 4, 2018 | No CommentsSeptember 2018 5/9/2018 4 scenarios by RBC Capital Markets (1) Waiting Game Oil price neutral. Iran honors its commitments under the nuclear deal attempting to wait out the Trump administration. […] -
Fireworks calendar 2015
Posted on December 30, 2015 | No CommentsJanuary Bush fires in Adelaide, Australia February Explosion in Kobani, Syria March Great Prophet 9 war games in Straits of Hormuz April Hanging tracks blasted over culvert washout on substandard […] -
Iran’s 2nd and last oil peak
Posted on August 7, 2012 | No Comments“Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said in Tehran that Iran has become addicted to selling crude oil and the time has come that the country voluntarily shut down some […] -
Iran playing war games, but not in video arcades
Posted on January 6, 2012 | No CommentsAs the world enters year 8 of peak oil with wafer thin spare capacity to offset any supply disruptions, war games around the heart of the Middle East oil supply […] -
Iran crude oil decline to 2016
Posted on August 17, 2011 | No CommentsThe IEA Medium Term Oil Market Report June 2011 published this widely ignored graph: http://www.iea.org/publications/free_new_Desc.asp?PUBS_ID=2392 The report says on page 18 and 80: “An adverse investment climate, however, sees Iranian […] -
Iran needs $60 bn from foreign banks to stop 1 mb/d oil production drop by 2015. Anyone interested?
Posted on June 6, 2011 | No CommentsThe Iranian Deputy Oil Minister needs $150 bn in the next 5 years to stop rampant decline in maturing oil fields. If current production declines and consumption growth in Iran […]