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Zika virus (ZIKV) is an arbovirus belonging to the genus Flavivirus (family Flaviviridae) and was first described in 1947 in Uganda following blood analyses of sentinel Rhesus monkeys1. Until the twentieth century, the African and Asian lineages of the virus did not cause meaningful infections in humans. However, in 2007, vectored by Aedes aegypti mosquitoes, ZIKV caused the first noteworthy epidemic on the Yap Island in Micronesia2. Patients experienced fever, skin rash, arthralgia and conjunctivitis2. From 2013 to 2015, the Asian lineage of the virus caused further massive outbreaks in New Caledonia and French Polynesia. In 2013, ZIKV reached Brazil,...

What can 1970 and Earlier Lower 48 Oil Production Data Tell Us About Post-1970 Lower 48 Oil Production? Introduction Fifty years ago this week, on March 8, 1956, at a meeting of the American Petroleum Institute in San Antonio, Texas, M. King Hubbert, in the preprinted version of his prepared remarks, had the following statement, "According to the best currently available information, the production of petroleum and natural gas on a world scale will probably pass its climax within the order of a half century (i.e., by 2006), while for both the United States and for Texas, the peaks of...

Original in Spanish- after running through babelfish: The Cantarell complex is constituted by the fields Nohoch, Chac, Akal, Kutz, Ixtoc, and Sihil, of which Akal is the greater one. Cantarell was discovered in 1976, and from 1979 to the closing of November of this year it has produced 11.492 million oil barrels and 4,691 million million cubical natural gas feet. Also, a project of maintenance of pressure approved in 1997 that it includes the injection of 1.200 million daily cubical nitrogen feet and the perforation until now of 190 wells, has allowed to increase its oil production of 1,082 million...

It was an incredible revelation last week that the second largest oil field in the world is exhausted and past its peak output. Yet that is what the Kuwait Oil Company revealed about its Burgan field. The peak output of the Burgan oil field will now be around 1.7 million barrels per day, and not the two million barrels per day forecast for the rest of the field's 30 to 40 years of life, Chairman Farouk Al Zanki told Bloomberg. He said that engineers had tried to maintain 1.9 million barrels per day but that 1.7 million is the optimum...

WASHINGTON, Oct. 26 - Last spring, the White House publicly embraced plans by Saudi Arabia to increase its oil production capacity significantly. But privately, some officials and others advising the government are skeptical about some of those Saudi forecasts. The United States relies on a few producers to maintain enough spare capacity to keep prices and markets stable, even during war or disaster. As oil prices have climbed over the last few years amid surging demand and tight supplies, the Bush administration has looked to the Persian Gulf countries, particularly Saudi Arabia, to pump extra oil. But doubts about Saudi...

According to the Minerals Management Service (MMS), as of 11:30 Central Time September 1, Gulf of Mexico oil production was reduced by over 1.356 million barrels per day as a result of Hurricane Katrina, equivalent to 90.43 percent of daily Gulf of Mexico oil production (which is 1.5 million barrels per day). The MMS also reported that 7.866 billion cubic feet per day of natural gas production was shut in, equivalent to 78.66 percent of daily Gulf of Mexico natural gas production (which is 10 billion cubic feet per day). Click here for the full analysis http://tonto.eia.doe.gov/oog/special/eia1_katrina.html

Raymond J. Learsy has written a book memorable in the special sense that nightmares can be memorable, but also useful. If the nightmare is that you died of an overdose of drugs, and the memory of it causes you when in command to draw back from the marginal dose, then the nightmare has served a purpose. Raymond Learsy writes (his book is called "Over a Barrel: Breaking the Middle East Oil Cartel") about what could happen if we continue to go as we are going. The price of gasoline as I write is 60 percent higher than it was a...

For those that are interesed there will be a conference on peak oil held in Houston on Saturday, July 9, 2005. It will take place from 1-5:30 p.m at the First Unitarian Universalist Church 5200 Fannin Street @ Southmore, Houston, Texas 77004

The following is a partial transcript of Congressman Roscoe Bartlett's fourth Special Order speech to the US Congress regarding Peak Oil, introduced by Rep.Ehlers. See link for full text. US House of Representatives - May 11, 2005 Mr. EHLERS: Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise tonight with several of my colleagues to discuss an issue of great importance to our Nation, and I know that everyone that gets up here starts the same way, but this is a particularly important issue, one that the three of us wish to discuss as scientists, or those who have a great interest...

Congressman Bartlett (R-MD) is scheduled to give his 2nd special order speech on peak oil tonight. It will be carried on C-Span and may start anywhere from 8pm to 9:30pm EST. Set your VCRs http://www.energybulletin.net/5437.html http://www.bartlett.house.gov/latestnews.asp?ARTICLE2900=6060

Republican Congressman from Maryland spoke on oil depletion to the Congress on Monday, March 14. The link is to Energy Bulletin but the original can be found by searching http://thomas.loc.gov/