Lecture 5 material is drawn from Chapter 7 of Energy Systems & Sustainability, 2/e (2012) and focuses on petroleum, oil and gas, from its origins to its dominance of our energy sector.
What's the future of oil and gas? Module 5: Oil and natural gas 5.1: Origins and geology of petroleum 5.2: Origins of the oil and gas industries 5.3: Finding and producing petroleum 5.4: Petroleum refining & products 5.5: Oil today 5.6: Natural gas 5.7: Rise and fall of North Sea oil and gas 5.8: Why are oil and natural gas so special? 5.9: Conversion technologies 5.10: Unconventional oil and gas 5.11: Methane leaks and GCC Links & items of interest:
> Why big oil is slowly turning green (Harder, Axios, 11 Dec 2017) Petroleum resources: > Flood of oil is coming, complicating efforts to fight global warming (Krauss, NYTimes, 3 Nov 2019) > North Sea oil and gas: facts and figures (BBC, 2014) > What role have natural resources played in the politics and economy of the Middle East? (PBS, 2000) > VIDEO: M. King Hubbert Explains peak oil (1976) EROEI:
> EROEI for beginners (Mearns, 25 May 2016) > EROI of different fuels and the implication for society (Hall et al., Energy Policy, 64, 2014) |
> Due Wed 2 Oct:
> Notes on thesis writing > Research paper points Thesis and three sourcesIt's time to start creating the first of two research papers assigned for this course. I break each research paper down into a series of shorter assignments, beginning with this one: Thesis statement & three sources (1) Choose a topic of interest to you and that is related to the material covered in this course. A topic of great personal interest or with some controversy works well. If you are at a loss you may want to browse my weebly course site and look through the many resource links. (2) Do some reading. (3) Formulate a thesis. See the file linked below for a refresher on good theses. Folks at Hartness Library are also a great resource. And feel free to run topics and potential theses by me before settling on one. (4) Type up the your thesis statement and at least three sources and submit it in response to this assignment. |
What have nations invested in and reaped from petroleum and what have the done with their petro-dollars?
> In Alaska, one man fights to save oil fund as reserves dry up (NPR, 22 Aug 2017)
> Fossil fuel subsidies are a staggering $5 trillion per year (Abraham, The Guardian, 7 Aug 2017)
> The opportunity costs of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (Marks, Journal of Economics and Public Finance, Vol 3(3), 2017)
> Dude, where's my North Sea oil money? (Charkrobortty, The Guardian, 13 Jan 2014)
> How Norway has avoided the curse of oil (Treanor, BBC, 17 Aug 2014)
> In Alaska, one man fights to save oil fund as reserves dry up (NPR, 22 Aug 2017)
> Fossil fuel subsidies are a staggering $5 trillion per year (Abraham, The Guardian, 7 Aug 2017)
> The opportunity costs of the Alaska Permanent Fund Dividend (Marks, Journal of Economics and Public Finance, Vol 3(3), 2017)
> Dude, where's my North Sea oil money? (Charkrobortty, The Guardian, 13 Jan 2014)
> How Norway has avoided the curse of oil (Treanor, BBC, 17 Aug 2014)
Oil sands / tar sands:
> Exxon relents, wipes oil sands reserves from its books (Kusnetz, Inside Climate News, 23 Feb 2017)
> PHOTO GALLERY: The Alberta tar sands (Taylor, The Atlantic, 25 Sep 2014)
> On ravaged tar sands lands, big challenges for reclamation (Struzik, Yale Environment 360, 27 Mar 2014)
> Oil sands mining uses up almost as much energy as it produces (Nuwer, Inside Climate Science, 19 Feb 2013)
> Reclaiming Alberta's oil sands mines (Testa, Earth Magazine, 22 Mar 2010)
> Exxon relents, wipes oil sands reserves from its books (Kusnetz, Inside Climate News, 23 Feb 2017)
> PHOTO GALLERY: The Alberta tar sands (Taylor, The Atlantic, 25 Sep 2014)
> On ravaged tar sands lands, big challenges for reclamation (Struzik, Yale Environment 360, 27 Mar 2014)
> Oil sands mining uses up almost as much energy as it produces (Nuwer, Inside Climate Science, 19 Feb 2013)
> Reclaiming Alberta's oil sands mines (Testa, Earth Magazine, 22 Mar 2010)
Fracking:
> Fracking causes rise in methane emissions, study says (Ambrose, The Guardian, 14 Aug 2019)
> Drilling on U.S. public lands causes 24 percent of the nation's CO2 emissions (Geuss, ArsTechnica, 27 Nov 2018)
> Natural gas firms have a proposal to convert home heating to hydrogen (Geuss, ArsTechnica, 25 Nov 2018)
> BP: Statistical review of world energy (June 2018)
> This is a really big deal: Canada natural gas emissions far worse than feared? (Kassam, The Guardian, 17 Oct 2017)
> Scottish government bans fracking (Yale Environment 360, 3 Oct 2017)
> VIDEO: 'How does fracking work?' (TED-Ed, 2017)
> Earthquakes triggered by fracking, not just wastewater disposal, study says (Hugo, NPR, 18 Nov 2016)
> The costs of fracking: the price tag of dirty drilling's environmental damage (Dutzik et al., 2012)
> Fracking: gas drilling's environmental threat (ProPublica)
> Fracking causes rise in methane emissions, study says (Ambrose, The Guardian, 14 Aug 2019)
> Drilling on U.S. public lands causes 24 percent of the nation's CO2 emissions (Geuss, ArsTechnica, 27 Nov 2018)
> Natural gas firms have a proposal to convert home heating to hydrogen (Geuss, ArsTechnica, 25 Nov 2018)
> BP: Statistical review of world energy (June 2018)
> This is a really big deal: Canada natural gas emissions far worse than feared? (Kassam, The Guardian, 17 Oct 2017)
> Scottish government bans fracking (Yale Environment 360, 3 Oct 2017)
> VIDEO: 'How does fracking work?' (TED-Ed, 2017)
> Earthquakes triggered by fracking, not just wastewater disposal, study says (Hugo, NPR, 18 Nov 2016)
> The costs of fracking: the price tag of dirty drilling's environmental damage (Dutzik et al., 2012)
> Fracking: gas drilling's environmental threat (ProPublica)
Methane hydrates:
> The world eyes yet another unconventional source of fossil fuels (Jones, Yale Environment 360, 21 Aug 2017)
> Should the world tap undersea methane hydrates for energy (Colman, Scientific American, 1 Aug 2017)
> The world eyes yet another unconventional source of fossil fuels (Jones, Yale Environment 360, 21 Aug 2017)
> Should the world tap undersea methane hydrates for energy (Colman, Scientific American, 1 Aug 2017)