[Pops]

here are a couple to start, post your favs

[Tanada]

I really like the first chart, it strikes my mind as very visible evidence that only the growth of Tight Oil in the USA is making much of an impact anywhere.

[Timo]

For some reason, however, i fear that the US is not the only locale where tight oil can/will be found. I've heard rumblings about fracking Patagonia. The same will probably be said for nearly every scrap of land across the planet. Desperate times.................

[Subjectivist]

For some reason, however, i fear that the US is not the only locale where tight oil can/will be found. I've heard rumblings about fracking Patagonia. The same will probably be said for nearly every scrap of land across the planet. Desperate times.................

I thought most countries lack the infrastructure to tap tight oil deposits because they didn't invest in all the preliminary needs when oil was cheap. Now that oil is expensive they can't divert the money needed to build the infrastructure, while in the USA that infrastructure is a sunk cost.

[BobInget]

The technology to tap tight oil is proliferating. Shale oil however is not. One of the first places outside the US where prospectors went looking was Poland. Like Rumania, Poland once was Europe's the most happening place for coal and oil. Many millions were spent only a few years ago prospecting tight oil. Many millions came up empty.

There are more or less proven prospects around the world;
in order: Asia, USA, Russia, South America, Africa and Middle East.
http://www.sbc.slb.com/Our_Ideas/Energy ... lobal.aspx

[John_A]

For some reason, however, i fear that the US is not the only locale where tight oil can/will be found. I've heard rumblings about fracking Patagonia. The same will probably be said for nearly every scrap of land across the planet. Desperate times.................

and Argentina and Mexico and Australia and Russia...yes....the fracking country list is growing....

[Pops]

Charts folks...

post up a chart of how much fracking is happening in Patagonia, or a chart showing how many rigs are drilling in TX & ND vs the rest of the world or whatever but post a chart.

[Keith_McClary]

FT: Oil industry sums do not add up
(Today's PO homepage)

All of which means the 2013 WEO has the oil industry’s upstream capex rising by nearly 180 per cent since 2000, but the global oil supply (adjusted for energy content) by only 14 per cent. The most straightforward interpretation of this data is that the economics of oil have become completely dislocated from historic norms since 2000 (and especially since 2005), with the industry investing at exponentially higher rates for increasingly small incremental yields of energy.

A chart showing this would be good.

[Peak_Yeast]

I like this graph very much - since it shows the problem with unconventional oil resources depletion.



Another graph i like is this one - always reminding one that we are dealing with blatant manipulators that do not even care how obvious it is.



And lastly this one for showing to absolutely clear trend in discoveries held up against consumption:

[KaiserJeep]

The only chart that really matters would be this one:



....and it's a heart-breaker.