Global Public Media's video interviews with some of the speakers at the Denver World Oil Conference, November 10 & 11, 2005. Click the links to view the interviews.
Roger Bezdek: "anything in the range approaching 8 percent [decline] would be catastrophic- there's no way we could hope to cope with that level of decline..."
Chris Skrebowski: "In the North Sea, where every bit of clever technology is being applied, we're seeing annual decline rates now of about 10 percent, which is really quite frightening. And individual months they sometimes go even higher than that."
Matt Simmons: (Natural gas is) "the single best energy source we've ever had. It's too bad we didn't understand it. We've used up probably two thirds of the finest natural gas in the world through one of two reasons- we either flared it because we didn't have any idea what to do with it, or we sold it for 1/10th the amount we sold oil for and we gave oil away. It's not the emissions aspect of natural gas that makes it so unbelievably precious. It's the only source we have of instant heat."
John Hickenlooper: Global Public Media interviews Denver mayor John Hickenlooper during the ASPO USA conference in Denver, CO.
Henry Groppe: (the US went from) "being the world's most highly developed economy with the lowest energy costs in the world, and in a reltively rapid transition... we're moving permanently to a position in the world of having the highest energy cost" Albert Bartlett: "Sustainable growth is an oxymoron, because if you just look at the arithmetic of steady growth, the numbers become astronomically large in modest periods of time, so you can't have steady growth."Mark Udall: "There's a lot of momentum in the Congress right now when it comes to moving beyond peak oil. I would hope that we would see an administration response equal to that in the Congress. The administration has more to do to embrace this approach, which after all is about increasing our national security, creating jobs and protecting the environment. There are no more three important things that we could be doing."
Day 1 Presentation Highlights (audio): Speakers include Randy Udall & Steve Andrews of ASPO-USA, Chris Skrebowski of the UK Petroleum Review, Tom Petrie of Petrie Parkman & Co., BP Retired Chief Petroleum Engineer Jeremy Gilbert, oil industry analyst Henry Groppe, physicist Dr. Albert Bartlett, energy investment banker Matt Simmons and others.
Day 2 Presentation Highlights (audio): Speakers include Denver Mayor John Hickenlooper, Tom Petrie of Petrie Parkman & Co., Roger Bezdek, President of MISI, Charles T. Maxwell of Weedon & Co., Congressman Roscoe Bartlett and many others.
