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The Oil Drum is a web-based, interactive energy, peak oil and sustainability think tank and community devoted to the discussion of energy issues and their impact on society. The Oil Drum is facilitated by the Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future, a Colorado non-profit corporation. The site is a resource for information on many energy and sustainability topics, including peak oil, and related concepts such as oil megaprojects, Hubbert Linearization, and the Export Land Model. The Oil Drum has over 25 online contributors from all around the globe.

The Oil Drum was rated one of the top five sustainability blogs of 2007 by Nielsen Netratings, and is read by a diverse collection of public figures, including Roscoe Bartlett, Paul Krugman, James Howard Kunstler, Richard Rainwater, and Radiohead. In 2008, the site received the M. King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education from the U.S. chapter of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas (ASPO).

The Oil Drum was started in March 2005 by Saunders (username "Prof. Goose"), a professor of political science at Colorado State University, and Summers (username "Heading Out"), a professor of mining engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology (then known as University of Missouri-Rolla). The site first rose to prominence following its coverage of the impact of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita on oil and gas production. Since then, the staff has grown by dozens and the site has become well-known for rigorous, quantitative analysis of energy production and consumption. A notable example is former editor Stuart Staniford's analysis of the depletion of Saudi Arabia's Ghawar oil field (Ghawar).

The site started out on the Blogger platform, moved to Scoop in August 2005, and to Drupal in December 2006.

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Recovering lost knowledge about exhaustion of Earth's resources (such as Peak Oil) - FM blog (blog) Tweet this news
FM blog (blog)--Here we an excerpt from a 1975 book that tells us more about Peak Oil than a typical dozen posts on -The Oil Drum- (perhaps one hundred). ... - Date : Thu, 27 Jan 2011 05:00:13 GMT+00:00
Sonawane recorded kerosene pilfering on mobile, says aide - Times of India Tweet this news
Times of India--Then he said the men were coming towards us with a -drum- of kerosene," he added. "Then I started running and those guys started running behind us with ... - Date : Wed, 26 Jan 2011 14:05:31 GMT+00:00
Oil Decline Rate And Population - CounterCurrents.org Tweet this news
CounterCurrents.org---...- 1991; -Oil Drum-, 2010, February 4; Oxford University, 2010, March 23; Petrole, 2010, March 25; Simmons, 2006; Youngquist, 2000, October; 2008). ... - Date : Wed, 26 Jan 2011 17:37:16 GMT+00:00
Old Bicycles Get Poor Families Rolling in Guatemala - Tonic Tweet this news
Tonic---...- as they say in Guatemala � appears to be just an old bike rigged up to an equally-ancient shopping cart, -oil drum- or sharpening wheel. ... - Date : Fri, 21 Jan 2011 16:58:06 GMT+00:00
Is Now a Good Time to Pay Down Your Debts? - OilPrice.com Tweet this news
OilPrice.com--This work involved performing insurance-related analyses and forecasts. Her personal blog is ourfiniteworld.com. She is also an editor of -The Oil Drum-.--- - Date : Tue, 25 Jan 2011 13:07:09 GMT+00:00
Arrest after Orange Hall attacks - BBC News Tweet this news
BBC News--Early on Sunday, it was reported that an -oil drum- had been placed against a door of the same hall and set alight causing damage to the door and wall. ... - Date : Mon, 17 Jan 2011 08:05:48 GMT+00:00
Global Oil Production Update and EIA Data Changes - The Business Insider Tweet this news
The Business Insider--I wrote about some of the broader issues relating to EIA's handling of data this week in an expanded post for -The Oil Drum-. | see: Secrecy By Complexity: ... - Date : Fri, 14 Jan 2011 22:28:35 GMT+00:00
For 8 hours, fire rages at IOC's plant at Taloja - Hindustan Times Tweet this news
Hindustan Times--The fire broke out in the -drum--filling area of the plant. Around 40000 litres of lubricant -oil- is reported to have been burnt in the incident. ... - Date : Tue, 18 Jan 2011 20:52:05 GMT+00:00
VIDEO from General Motors and Synaptic Digital: Chevrolet Volt Components ... - PR Newswire (press release) Tweet this news
PR Newswire (press release)--Mobile Fluid Recovery stepped in next, using a massive high-speed -drum- that spun the booms until dry and eliminated all the absorbed -oil- and wastewater. ... - Date : Wed, 19 Jan 2011 20:28:34 GMT+00:00
Peak Oil and Limits of the Hubbert Model - OilPrice.com Tweet this news
OilPrice.com--Oil EROEI has been plummeting in the past decades, as we can see in this well known graph by Cutler Cleveland, reported on -The Oil Drum- by David Murphy So, ... - Date : Tue, 18 Jan 2011 14:48:59 GMT+00:00



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