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  1. Fossil Fuel’s gift to the world – modern society, powerful machines, 7+ billion people
  2. How many days of human labor is in a gallon of gasoline?
  3. What’s in Crude Oil? A lotta toxic stuff, Benzene, Tuolene, etc
  4. Health effects of fossil fuel consumption
    1. Health effects of burning Diesel, and the exhaust fumes
    2. Cardiovascular disease, cancer, asthma, from living near diesel exhaust concentrations
  5. Peak Oil, Peak Natural Gas, Peak Resources, Peak Everything
    1. What happens when the power runs out? That is, when Peak Oil really bites us in the butt?
    2. Fracking's false oil-energy boom leading the world to financial collapse?
    3. Peak Oil 101 – Chris Martenson
    4. Peak Oil Reading List
    5. DON’T WORRY, DRIVE ON: Fossil Fools & Fracking Lies
    6. 300 Years of FOSSIL FUELS in 300 Seconds
    7. U.S. Military rethinking its energy policies; speech by Adm. Mullin at the Energy Security Forum of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
    8. Fueling the Future Force: Preparing the Department of Defense for a post-Petroleum era
  6. The oil companies keep winning as long as we keep giving them money
  7. Natural Gas – the Supposedly Clean Fossil Fuel
  8. Gasoline and Diesel
    1. What is the true price of gasoline? Should it cost $10 per gallon?
    2. Types of Crude Oil sources & constraints
    3. Extracting Crude Oil from the ground
    4. Transporting crude oil to refineries
    5. Refining crude oil to oil products
    6. Delivery to consumers
    7. Oil Products Consumption – burning gasoline, etc
    8. Crude Oil Dispersants – The main tool to mitigate crude oil spill disasters
  9. Coal
    1. Types of Coal
    2. Clean coal? Misnomer?
    3. Coal as a source of electricity or conversion into synthetic crude oil
    4. History of Coal Use
  10. Fracking – Hydraulic Fracturing – Acidizing
    1. Produced Water from Fracking operations
    2. Fracking (waste water injection) probably causes induced earthquakes
    3. Hydraulic Fracturing (fracturare hidraulica) in Romania’s shale gas (gaze de sist) formations
      1. Public perception of shale gas in Romania
      2. The future of shale gas in Romania: questions and policy options
      3. Romania after Nabucco: Energy Security Options
      4. Romania’s Oil and Gas Framework: 2013 highlights
      5. Paleozoic Paleozoic Shale Gas Plays of the Eastern Europe: Romania case study
    4. United States State Department Bureau of Energy Resources – USAID
      1. Fiscal Year 2014 USAID Budget Request contains funding for fracking program
    5. Marathon Oil explains that Hydraulic Fracturing is safe and beneficial
    6. WARNING Fracking An Inconvenient Truth
    7. Truth about Fracking – Wes Wilson – Phil Doe
    8. Costs of Fracking for Oil and Gas

Dated November 19, 2013. Presented by the Romania Energy Center at the Romania Oil And Gas Conference, 2013.

The paper concerns itself with Romania’s energy security, and how the country’s future prospects are bleak unless they get on with fracking the shale gas, and drilling in Black Sea deep water locations.

In June 2013 the Southern Gas Corridor project took a negative turn. This project is supposed to bring natural gas from Central Asia, through a pipeline, to Europe. The long-term goal is “Energy Security” for Europe in a way that doesn’t leave Europe dependent on Russia’s natural gas supplies. This is a big problem hanging over Europe’s head, that natural gas supplies are low in Europe, and lots of European countries are heavily dependent on Russia’a natural gas. And, Russia being Russia, they will use their position of dominance to extract huge economic gains from Europe.

The Southern Gas Corridor is one of the plans to circumvent Russia’s natural gas dominance. Of course, it’s switching from a dependency on Russia’s natural gas to dependency on Central Asia natural gas. In any case the negative decision was to deny the “Nabucco West” project in favor of the “TAP” project. That dooms the Southern Gas Corridor to supplying just a small amount of natural gas, a large portion of which will go to Turkey.

The loss of the Nabucco project leaves Romania in a dire situation. They already are importing large quantities of oil and natural gas, and domestic production is declining at a 10% per year rate. It means Romania’s future is bleak, with heavy dependence on importing oil and gas from elsewhere. The country is already poor by economic measures, and importing oil and gas will just be a big drain on the economy.

Three prospective sources for future natural gas needs: Enhanced Recovery techniques, Fracking the shale deposits, Offshore drilling in the Black Sea. In a later slide the offshore resources are said to not be enough, that they’d better make further discoveries.

This is Romania’s prospects of external natural gas sources, if trying hard to avoid Russia. Much of this is LNG terminals slated to be built in Croatia and Poland. The Levantine basin is..well..

This is a major oil and gas discovery offshore in the Eastern Mediteranian. It was just discovered, and is years from being exploited. It could change the “energy” power structures in not just the Middle East, but for Europe.

Romania after Nabucco: Energy Security Options. At one time this was available for download via http://www.roec.ro/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/ROEC_Presentation_OilGas2013-Radu-Dudau.pdf

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David Herron : David Herron is a writer and software engineer focusing on the wise use of technology. He is especially interested in clean energy technologies like solar power, wind power, and electric cars. David worked for nearly 30 years in Silicon Valley on software ranging from electronic mail systems, to video streaming, to the Java programming language, and has published several books on Node.js programming and electric vehicles.
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