MIKE RUPPERT
TO ATTEND PARIS
CONFERENCE ON PEAK OIL
April 10, 2003 1330 PDT, (FTW) -- Publisher-Editor Mike Ruppert
will attend and report on the upcoming conference of
the Association for the
Study of Peak Oil (ASPO) in Paris on May 26-27th. This is the
world's premier organization of oil and natural gas
experts who are documenting and evaluating the realities
of Peak Oil and their implications. FTW strongly
encourages journalists and scholars from the United States to attend this critical conference which
will address energy issues that have been almost
completely suppressed inside the United States and around the world.
Contact information and registration details are available below.
For
additional information, please visit the ASPO web site at: www.peakoil.net.
ASPO is a network of scientists, affiliated with European
institutions and universities, having an interest
in determining the date and impact of the peak and
decline
of the world's production of oil and gas, due to
resource constraints.
It presently has members in: Austria, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland and
the United Kingdom.
Mission:
1.To evaluate the world's
endowment of oil and gas; 2.To model depletion, taking
due account of economics, technology and politics; 3.To raise awareness of the
serious consequences for Mankind.
пїЅASPO Meeting in ParisпїЅпїЅ
The
programme for the Second International Workshop on
Oil Depletion is as follows
Meeting Place : IFP Conference Centre,пїЅ RueilMalmaison, Paris
Monday 26th
May
08:00 пїЅ 09:00 пїЅпїЅ Registration
09:00 пїЅ 09:30 пїЅпїЅ Opening Address: Claude Mandil(Executive Director, International Energy Agency)
09:35 пїЅ 10:05 пїЅпїЅ Michael Klare (Hampshire
College, USA) Resource
Wars
10:10 пїЅ 10:40 пїЅпїЅ Pierre-RenпїЅ BauquisпїЅ (IFP-School, France) What Energy Sources for Transportation
in the 21st Century?
11:05 пїЅ 11:35 пїЅпїЅ Ali Bakhtiari (National Iranian Oil Company, Tehran ) A Realistic
View of Long-term Middle
East Production
Capacity
11:40 пїЅ 12:10 пїЅпїЅ Ray Leonard (Yukos Oil, Moscow) Can Russia make
up the Difference and for how long?
12:15 пїЅ 12:45 пїЅпїЅ Chris SkrebowskiпїЅ (Institute of Petroleum, London) The North Sea пїЅ Victim
of Depletion
14:00 пїЅ 14:30 пїЅпїЅ Peter Gerling (BGR, Hannover ) The World's
Endowment of Natural Gas пїЅ The BGR's new
energy study
14:35 пїЅ 15:05 пїЅпїЅ Jean Laherrre (AFTP, France) Modelling
future Oil Production, Population and the EconomyпїЅпїЅпїЅпїЅпїЅпїЅпїЅ пїЅ
15:10 - 15:40 пїЅпїЅпїЅ Malcolm Slesser( Edinburgh University, Scotland ) World
Energy Supply and Demand to 2050
16:05 пїЅ 16:35 пїЅпїЅ Colin
Campbell& Anders Sivertsson (ASPO & UppsalaUniversity) The
2003 Update of the ASPO
Oil & Gas Depletion Model
16:40 пїЅ 17:10 пїЅпїЅ Vincent LepezпїЅ((InstitutFrancais de Petrole, France) The
Modelling of Remaining Reserves in a Mature Basin
17:15 пїЅ17:45 пїЅпїЅпїЅ Steve Andrews (Energy Consultant, USA ) Oil
Prophets: Looking at World Oil Studies Over Time
20:00 Conference Dinner
Tuesday 27th May
09:00 пїЅ 09:30 пїЅпїЅ Matt Simmons пїЅ(Simmons & Co., USA ) The US Reaction
to World Oil and Gas Depletion
09:35 пїЅ10:05 пїЅпїЅпїЅ Kenneth Deffeyes (Princeton
University, USA) Will
2000 turn out to be Peak followed by wildly oscillating
Oil Prices?
10:10 пїЅ 10:40 пїЅпїЅ Jean-Marie Bourdaire (World
Energy Council) Energy
supply conditions and oil price regime
11:10 пїЅ 11:40 пїЅпїЅ To be announced
11:45 пїЅ 12:15 пїЅпїЅ To be announced
12:20 пїЅ 12:55 пїЅпїЅ Maarten van Mourik & Richard
Shepherd (Consultants, France) The economic
drivers of peak production and the economic obstacles
to renewables
14:00 пїЅ14:30 пїЅпїЅпїЅ Gerard FreisпїЅ (IFP, France) The
contribution of technology: accelerating depletion
or пїЅcreating пїЅпїЅ reservesпїЅ (
including GTL, biomass, etc ... )?
14:35 пїЅ 15:05 пїЅпїЅ FranпїЅois CupcicпїЅ(TFE, France) The ultra-heavy oil (tarsands)
of Athabasca and Orinoco : what
technologies? and what recovery
rate ?
15:10 пїЅ 15:40 пїЅпїЅ Werner Zittel (LBS, Germany)пїЅпїЅ Renewable
energy possibilities
15:45 пїЅ 16:15 пїЅпїЅ Paul Metz (Inter-ger, Netherlands) The contribution of renewable energy, energy efficiency and the political
framework
16:30 пїЅ 17:00 пїЅпїЅ Ian Fells (Newcastle University, United Kingdom), Energy
Options in the United Kingdom
17:05 пїЅ 17:35 пїЅпїЅ KjellAleklettпїЅ (Uppsala University, Sweden) Sweden's
Experience in waking up Europe to
Future Energy Issues
17: 40 пїЅ 18:10 пїЅ Panel Discussion
18:10 пїЅ 18:20 пїЅпїЅ Colin
Campbell - Closing
remarks
19:00 Reception and press conference by speakers
20:00 Conference Dinner
According to the Michelin
Guide, there are many hotels in the vicinity, including
the following (with phone number and approximate price):
Bougival -пїЅпїЅпїЅпїЅпїЅпїЅпїЅпїЅпїЅ Hotel MarechauxпїЅ (+331
3082 7711)пїЅпїЅпїЅпїЅпїЅпїЅпїЅ
Important : For
security and other reasons, it is necessary for us
to know in advance who are coming. Please therefore
confirm by e-mail to C.J.Campbell (aspoone@eircom.net)
if you have not already done so. Formal registration
will be on arrival when the conference fee of 100 (euros)
(25 euros for students & the retired) will be collected
to defray some of the costs. About 50 participants have
registered already.
Those
who are in a position to do so are asked to publicise
the event within their own circles.пїЅ