Oil Trades Near Eight-Month Low Before OPEC Meeting from Bloomberg

Oil production change by country in 2011.  Economist

A summery of the IEA’s latest Oil Market Report:  IEA  EIA Lowers Oil Price Estimate, Posts Gulf Hurricane Shut-in Estimates at Rig Zone.

It’s still too early to say if this is a trend, but for the first time in four years, stocks and oil are headed in different directions:  Crossing Wall Street.

Energy input costs viewed as permanent change consumption behavior, changes viewed as temporary do not.  Economist

Fears of global oil scarcity overblown: BP report at Globe and Mail

The Marcellus Changes Everything: Gas Flows, Transport Contracts, Basis at RBN Energy

Shale boom to fuel 1.5 million jobs by 2015, study says at Fuel Fix

Off topic:  Meanwhile bureaucrats live in fantasy land:  Oil Price.  And “Truthland: The Factual Alternative to “Gasland” via Mark Perry.  If you cow tow you can be exempted from Iranian oil sanctions, while China wields to big a stick to be pushed around.  Business Week