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Andrew McKillop is an energy economist and consultant who recently edited a book for Pluto Books, ISBN 0745320929, title 'The Final Energy Crisis' including articles by Colin Campbell and Edward R D Goldsmith. He has held posts in national, international and supranational (Euro Commission) energy, and energy policy divisions and agencies.
These missions have for example included role of Energy policy coordinator, Dept Minerals & Energy, Govt of Papua NG, advisory and management at the AREC technology transfer subsidiary of OAPEC, Kuwait, study missions at the ILO and UNDP, in-house consulting to the Hydro & Power Authority of British Columbia, Canada, seminar presentations at the Administrative Staff College of India, Hyderabad, study and technology review at the Canada Science Council, and elsewhere.
Andrew McKillop is a regular contributor to many specialist oil and energy Web sites. He was first energy editor of the journal 'The Ecologist' and has published works with other analysts, e.g. 'Oil Crisis and Economic Adjustment', Pinter Publishing, with Dr Salah al-Shaikhly, currently the Interim Iraqi government's Ambassador to London.
Andrew McKillop is actively seeking research, consulting or writing missions at this time.
Mr McKillop is a regular syndicated columnist for the I-Media, Dubai publication Alrroya Aleqtissadiya
E-mail address: xtran04@yahoo.com
Tel London UK 44-208 348 8914
Articles
8.25.10
Before Peak or Beyond Petroleum - BP Oil Limits
Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 449 Times;
7 comments BP's Gulf of Mexico disaster is treated almost daily in the mainstream media as a technology challenge that BP itself will or could soon master, deflecting attention from this disaster representing a lot more than a potential break-up or buy-out of the BP empire, and a real environmental catastrophe.
Get Ready For The Last Oil War
Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 7407 Times;
40 comments Experts will forever discuss and dispute the causes of previous wars, both local and civil, both political and religious, for vital space and vital resources, specially oil and gold, to deny markets to, or weaken the money of enemies, and for other reasons.
7.28.08
The Rubber Band Snaps at 140 USD-Per-Barrel?
Topic: Business & Corporate Article Viewed 7123 Times;
12 comments If we take a flashback view on "official forecasts" from one year ago -- in June 2007 -- the unreality of those Cheap Oil Hopes jump from the page. While the OECD's IEA is mutating quite fast into a Peak Oil friendly organization, able to admit that future oil supplies will not meet likely or probable demand, the US EIA and other diehards, ironically including the OPEC Secretariat and its far out underestimates of world oil demand growth, have not yet made that cultural revolution.
1.18.07
Peak Oil and Commodity Pricing Fundamentals - Part 2
Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 5555 Times;
10 comments The major real world determinant of oil prices is demand overhang. Through the 1986-1999 Cheap Oil interval the favourite slogan of so-called oil price "experts" was supply overhang. Today we have demand overhang. In other words, there is structurally high, even incompressible world oil demand growth, but unrelated and weak supply growth, mostly "unconventional" oil, such as condensates and NGL.
1.17.07
Peak Oil and Commodity Pricing Fundamentals - Part 1
Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 5272 Times;
Comment on this article Peak Oil definitions vary, as indeed does the definition of "oil", but public opinion, media and political sentiment, and business community perceptions are now clearly oriented to what is called "after oil." In fact, depending on the technical or financial definitions used it is possible to affirm that we are at, near or even beyond "Peak Oil."
12.4.06
Peak Oil to Peak Gas Is a Short Ride
Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 8095 Times;
16 comments Decreasing oil supplies and increasing gas supplies are interdependent and interlinked, but this is not a case of "One goes up if the other goes down". The reason is Peak Oil and a rapid shift away from 'conventional oil' to lighter fossil hydrocarbons in the oil-and-gas mix: around 15% to 20% of world oil is today, in fact, gas-based and gas-related.
11.9.06
Peak Oil - Investor Strategies for Energy Transition Part 2
Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 5033 Times;
4 comments Concerning oil, we can note that oil depletion, forcing a rapid increase in extreme depth offshore oil, increased land condensates production, increased syncrude and tertiary solvents-based extraction, has led to 'The Lighter Barrel', now averaging about 1165 litres-per-ton, compared with under 1100 l/ton in the 1970s and early 1980s.
11.8.06
Peak Oil - Investor Strategies for Energy Transition Part 1
Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 6103 Times;
3 comments At least in Europe, Peak Oil can be surely said to arrived in the shape and form of party political speeches and media references to "after oil." In Sweden, "after oil" was announced by the outgoing government as meaning that oil would be "eliminated from the energy mix" by about 2025.
4.27.06
Whatever Happened to Oil Price Elasticity?
Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 7852 Times;
7 comments The facts are overwhelming. Oil prices described as 'very high' by many commentators have most certainly not 'imploded' or 'cratered' the world economy. In fact, the economy and oil prices have grown together in remarkable symbiosis and interactivity since the most recent oil price low, in early 1999.
8.26.05
BP Amoco's Magic Curve
Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 6289 Times;
11 comments In its quest to present world supply-demand data as favouring Cheap Oil, BP Amoco and other consumer nation 'major oil corporations', formerly nicknamed the 'Seven Sisters' but now shrunk to 5 Anxious Dwarfs with under 12.5% of the world's total oil production capacity between them, necessarily has to provide apparent logic for this quest.
6.1.05
Economy Restructuring and Peak Oil
Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 5374 Times;
1 comments World oil demand is increasing at a probable new long term rate of about 2.8%-3.3% annual, more than two times the average annual rate during the long 'cheap oil interval' of 1986-99.
12.1.04
Oil Price Trends Through 2004 - 2010
Topic: Fossil & Biomass Article Viewed 4773 Times;
1 comments Recent headline data from the OECD's IEA, the US EIA, and data from leading oil analysts concerning world production and inventory stockbuild in key consumer countries, together with 'traditional' claims by certain analysts that OPEC is still able to 'overproduce', is taken by some commentators as offering a prospect for oil prices sliding below current, rising price levels in the region of about 36 - 45 Euro/barrel (45 - 55 USD/bbl), perhaps by mid-2005.
