We cannot drill our way out of this oil crisis. Since 2000, oil companies working in the U.S. have doubled the number of wells drilled per year.
Although increased drilling has added new oil to the nation's supply, it has not done so fast enough to offset the terminal decline of existing fields.
We are going to have to import more of our oil. Period.
Officials with the shipping company charged with delivering fuel to Inuvik, N.W.T., said they are working with petroleum supplier Imperial Oil to deal with a fuel shortage in the community.
Gas stations and businesses in Inuvik have been ordered to ration fuel as a result of the shortfall, which Imperial Oil blamed on shipping issues with Northern Transportation Company Ltd.
The company, which handles barge shipments to communities in the North, faced numerous delays during its shipping season last summer and was unable to deliver a sufficient fuel supply to the town of 3,500.
Also Flying J now out of agricultural diesel out in Alberta
Officials with the shipping company charged with delivering fuel to Inuvik, N.W.T., said they are working with petroleum supplier Imperial Oil to deal with a fuel shortage in the community.
Gas stations and businesses in Inuvik have been ordered to ration fuel as a result of the shortfall, which Imperial Oil blamed on shipping issues with Northern Transportation Company Ltd.
The company, which handles barge shipments to communities in the North, faced numerous delays during its shipping season last summer and was unable to deliver a sufficient fuel supply to the town of 3,500.
Also Flying J now out of agricultural diesel out in Alberta
The good news, as such, is that farm diesels are durable machines that can burn dang near anything. In order of preference they would use farm diesel, then road diesel, then road kerosene, and as a last resort home heating oil.
edit Oh yeah I looked at your chart, one station in Edmonton is out of farm diesel but the other station in Edmonton is not and both have stocks of road diesel. That is hardly time to say all of Alberta is out of farm diesel. Cheer up, the post peak era is still just beginning! _________________ Oxygen: - An intensely habit-forming accumulative toxic substance. As little
as one breath is known to produce a life-long addiction to the gas, which addiction invariably ends in death.--Isaac Asimov
Joined: Jan 30, 2008 Posts: 55 Location: St. Louis
Posted: Thu Feb 14, 2008 6:52 pm Post subject: Re: North American Fuel Shortage Reports
Alaska
Fuel shortage threatens remote Aleutian village
Submitted by SHNS on Thu, 02/14/2008 - 14:03. By JAMES HALPIN, Anchorage Daily News western news
NIKOLSKI, Alaska -- For nearly five months, dangerously stormy weather in the Aleutians has held bulk-fuel barges at bay from Nikolski, where officials have been forced to fly in small, pricey batches for heat and power.
The tiny, isolated village of about 30 people, unable to continue paying $3,600 a pop to fly in a week's worth of fuel, is hoping for a final air delivery of 550 gallons to come later this week, though it too has been delayed because of weather. Once in Nikolski, fuel sells for nearly $11 a gallon, more than double the normal cost there.
Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 5:35 pm Post subject: Re: North American Fuel Shortage Reports
What may not be obvious to many is that America’s energy landscape has also been altered. As this article goes to press, the seriousness of America’s energy situation is masked by low natural gas and gasoline prices, making energy supply a non-issue for our citizens. Unlike earlier last year, today you can buy natural gas to heat your home or gasoline to power your car and the price is not noticeably painful. Make no mistake, however: America is suffering an energy crisis of a magnitude that exceeds any in its history.
As in other areas of our lives, recent events should be a catalyst for us corporately and individually to reassess the health and viability of America’s energy supply and the companies whose job it is to deliver that energy to us. Perhaps there is no better way to underline the importance of a secure energy supply to a country’s well-being than to recall another relatively recent historic event. On December 7, 1941, the surprise Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor triggered America’s entry into World War II. Most Americans are aware of that pivotal date and event. Most Americans are not aware that the Japanese attack was, in part, triggered by the U.S. Government’s decision early in 1941 to cut off Japan’s energy imports from the Far East, which accounted for 100 percent of the Japanese energy supply.
Fast forward to, 2001. America consumes 19 million barrels per day of various forms of oil and its by-products. Of this amount, 60 percent is imported, and 47 percent of the imports come from OPEC countries. Those statistics may not surprise or alarm you. But the significance of these figures grows once you understand that in 1973, America imported only 15 percent of its energy needs from OPEC. As a veteran of sitting in gasoline lines in 1973 to buy gas at twice the price I paid prior to the boycott (and happy to get it, I might add), I am alarmed by the following:
´ America’s dependence today on OPEC supply is over three times what it was in 1973.
´ Over the past three years, we have doubled the number of rigs drilling in the United States and have had no effect on boosting U.S. production figures.
´ In 2000, the entire country was amazed when California suffered blackouts because they couldn’t afford to buy natural gas for electricity production at $10 per thousand cubic feet a price spike in excess of three times the average gas price caused by spot supply shortages.
´ If just the Saudi percentage of our imports (15 percent) were cut off, the U.S. would suffer immediate and significant economic loss, including a drop in GNP, loss of U.S. manufacturing jobs, major economic upheaval in the travel industry and a significant spike in energy prices most probably a jump in price of three to five times the current value per barrel; in simpler terms, gasoline selling at the pump for three to seven dollars per gallon.
To almost everyone in the energy industry, these figures or ones similar to them are not new. Most energy insiders have known for some time that there are serious problems with our energy supply. The question is, "What do we, as a nation, as companies and as individuals do about it?" Can we afford to continue to relegate our nation’s energy health to a subject for discussion only when prices are high and supply is in question?
Joined: Apr 05, 2005 Posts: 2277 Location: South of Atlanta
Posted: Thu Feb 28, 2008 2:27 pm Post subject: Re: North American Fuel Shortage Reports
smileyhouston wrote:
To almost everyone in the energy industry, these figures or ones similar to them are not new. Most energy insiders have known for some time that there are serious problems with our energy supply. The question is, "What do we, as a nation, as companies and as individuals do about it?" Can we afford to continue to relegate our nation’s energy health to a subject for discussion only when prices are high and supply is in question?
We won't do anything until we feel pain. Nothing will happen until you have either economically strangling prices or you have outright shortages at the pumps. I dont mean spot shortages either.
The problem then becomes an unmanageable one and chaos ensues. Once we get there the time for talk and planning will be over.
It's why I keep saying it's already too late. The only thing to do now is to save as many as you can. I honestly think it's that bad.
One large story on supply disruptions or shortages and hoarding alone could push us over the edge with the "just in time" system we have right now. It might take weeks or even months to solve the problems if they happen at the wrong time of the year.
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Posted: Fri Mar 07, 2008 2:15 am Post subject: Re: North American Fuel Shortage Reports
Quote:
Esso stations across the Prairies are running low on gasoline and face rotating outages for the next few weeks, according to owner Imperial Oil.
Operational issues have reduced output at the Strathcona refinery just east of Edmonton, forcing the company to ration supply to its Esso stations across the Prairies, and into British Columbia, Imperial said Wednesday.
Link _________________ The sage experiences without abstraction,
And accomplishes without action;
He accepts the ebb and flow of things,
Nurtures them, but does not own them,
And lives, but does not dwell.
-Lao Tzu
Joined: Oct 23, 2004 Posts: 5060 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 9:53 am Post subject: Re: North American Fuel Shortage Reports
Gasoline to be rationed in Fort McMurry area.
An energy center short of gas? There is something wrong with this
picture, and PO is the cause.
Quote:
Gasoline shortage
By CAROL CHRISTIAN
Today staff
Friday March 07, 2008
There may be some panicked calls of “fill ‘er up” over the next few days, as two of Canada’s largest oil companies are reporting tight fuel supplies in western Canada that may result in stations running out of gasoline.
There are four retail Esso stations in Fort McMurray: the Real Martin location had empty tanks this morning, while the pumps were still operating at the Millennium Drive, Franklin Avenue and Gregoire outlets.
Undisclosed technical issues with fuel processing components of Imperial Oil’s Edmonton refinery resulted in decreased output, according to Gordon Wong, Imperial spokesman. The plant is only running at about 50 per cent production capacity after those fuel-processing units were taken off-line. The refinery normally produces about 187,000 barrels of oil a day. Starting on Feb. 24, Imperial Oil began rationing fuel and expects to continue doing so for at least a few more weeks. “(What) we’ve been trying to do is supplement ... by looking at other sources, and up to this point, been fairly successful at doing that,” Wong added, explaining the company’s initiatives to meet customer demand.
“As a result of the refinery issues, it’s likely that there will be some outages, sporadic though they may be, over the next few weeks at retail sites in the Prairies, and possibly in B.C.,” predicted Wong.
“We are working as quickly as possible to assess the damaged units, and undertake repairs. Obviously, we’re trying to minimize any kind of inconvenience to customers.”
“Fuel supply right now in western Canada is tight,” said Janet Annesley, of Shell Canada, this morning, discussing the company’s own production slowdown.
Joined: Dec 28, 2005 Posts: 294 Location: Toronto, Ontario
Posted: Sat Mar 08, 2008 12:49 pm Post subject: Re: North American Fuel Shortage Reports
DantesPeak wrote:
Gasoline to be rationed in Fort McMurry area.
An energy center short of gas? There is something wrong with this
picture, and PO is the cause.
Quote:
Gasoline shortage
By CAROL CHRISTIAN
Today staff
Friday March 07, 2008
There may be some panicked calls of “fill ‘er up” over the next few days, as two of Canada’s largest oil companies are reporting tight fuel supplies in western Canada that may result in stations running out of gasoline.
There are four retail Esso stations in Fort McMurray: the Real Martin location had empty tanks this morning, while the pumps were still operating at the Millennium Drive, Franklin Avenue and Gregoire outlets.
Undisclosed technical issues with fuel processing components of Imperial Oil’s Edmonton refinery resulted in decreased output, according to Gordon Wong, Imperial spokesman. The plant is only running at about 50 per cent production capacity after those fuel-processing units were taken off-line. The refinery normally produces about 187,000 barrels of oil a day. Starting on Feb. 24, Imperial Oil began rationing fuel and expects to continue doing so for at least a few more weeks. “(What) we’ve been trying to do is supplement ... by looking at other sources, and up to this point, been fairly successful at doing that,” Wong added, explaining the company’s initiatives to meet customer demand.
“As a result of the refinery issues, it’s likely that there will be some outages, sporadic though they may be, over the next few weeks at retail sites in the Prairies, and possibly in B.C.,” predicted Wong.
“We are working as quickly as possible to assess the damaged units, and undertake repairs. Obviously, we’re trying to minimize any kind of inconvenience to customers.”
“Fuel supply right now in western Canada is tight,” said Janet Annesley, of Shell Canada, this morning, discussing the company’s own production slowdown.
Goes to show, as Matt Simmons has said, that neglect of oil infrastructure could prove to have more devastating effects than insufficient oil available to be pumped.
Joined: Sep 03, 2005 Posts: 58 Location: Germany, State M-V
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:12 pm Post subject: Re: North American Fuel Shortage Reports
Aren't there any emergency reserves or SPRs in case of a bigger problem at a refinery (even nowadays possible with our sophisticated technology)?????
By the way: Producing veg oil to fill it into a diesel car isn't to complicated. You have press it with a maximum temperature of about 45°C and to filter it after that with maximum of about 3-5µm width of the holes.
So you can deposit your oil at a dark and cool place for at least six months. Humidity and old veg oil (even in very small amounts!) in the tank is also very bad for long lasting.
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Joined: Dec 28, 2005 Posts: 294 Location: Toronto, Ontario
Posted: Mon Mar 10, 2008 4:15 pm Post subject: Re: North American Fuel Shortage Reports
Jupidu wrote:
Aren't there any emergency reserves or SPRs in case of a bigger problem at a refinery (even nowadays possible with our sophisticated technology)?????
Canada is unique among OECD countries in having no emergency reserves of oil whatsoever. This puts the eastern part of the country in a precarious position in the event of some crisis affecting oil supplies.
Posted: Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:04 pm Post subject: Re: North American Fuel Shortage Reports
Again I defer to DantesPeak since he seems to keep an eye on the details of this more than the rest of us, but I think the price right now is setting us up for shortages. The price is hurting the poor, but most folks are just motoring along. We had talked somewhere else about something in the mid four dollar range being the fair market price but someone not letting the real cost of burning gas show up in the American economy. The Europeans are all pyaing over $6 equivalent per gallon and they have a stronger currency than we do. I would not be surprised if we see shortages this year.
I also noticed something in the oil futures I have never seen before. The '15 contracts were trading higher than anything after '10. I wonder if that means we have some people taking depletion seriously when it comes to investing? Anyone know why that might happen. usually the front month is the most expensive and it declines from there. I also noticed the comex gold futures were actually strictly rising into the future. _________________ I return to you now at the turning of the tide.
Joined: Oct 23, 2004 Posts: 5060 Location: New Jersey
Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 10:15 pm Post subject: Re: North American Fuel Shortage Reports
Coca Cola prepares for diesel shortages (Have they been reading PO.com???)
Quote:
Coca-Cola plant to add diesel fueling station behind Bridges Crossing subdivision
By Kelly VanLeeuwen • STAFF WRITER • April 23, 2008
The Coca-Cola distribution plant in the CenterPoint business center on Holland Road in Mauldin will add a diesel fueling station soon.
The station, which will house a 12,000-gallon tank, will be large enough for two trucks to fuel at once, according to Doug Leonard, director of environmental affairs for Coca-Cola, who spoke to the commission.
Due to the rising gas prices, Coca Cola is installing the station to not only buy fuel in bulk but also to prepare against a possible fuel shortage, Leonard said later.
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