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The Oil Drum Owner Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future (a 501(c ) organization ) Created by Professors Kyle Saunders and Dave Summers URL www Commercial No Launched March 2005 (2005-03 ) Current status Ceased publishing August 31, 2013 (2013-08-31 ) ; Archives available
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The Oil Drum was a website devoted to analysis and discussion of energy and its impact on society that described itself as an "energy, peak oil & sustainability research and news site".[1] The Oil Drum was published by the Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future, a Colorado non-profit corporation.[2] peak oil , and related concepts such as oil megaprojects , Hubbert linearization , and the Export Land Model . The Oil Drum had over 25 online contributors from all around the globe. In 2013, the site ceased publishing new articles. As of October 2016, the site continues to function as an archive.
The Oil Drum was rated one of the top five sustainability blogs of 2007 by Nielsen Netratings ,[3] Roscoe Bartlett ,[4] Paul Krugman ,[5] James Howard Kunstler ,[6] Richard Rainwater ,[7] Radiohead .[8] 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).[9]
The Oil Drum was started in March 2005 by Kyle Saunders (username "Prof. Goose"), a professor of political science at Colorado State University , and Dave Summers (username "Heading Out"), a professor of mining engineering at Missouri University of Science and Technology (then known as University of Missouri-Rolla).[10] Katrina and Rita on oil and gas production.[11] [12] [13] Saudi Arabia 's Ghawar oil field (Depletion Levels in Ghawar ).[14]
The site started out on the Blogger platform, moved to Scoop in August 2005, and to Drupal in December 2006.[15]
In 2013, The Oil Drum announced that it would stop publishing new content and would turn into an archive resource. Reasons cited for this change include server costs and a dwindling number of contributors of high-quality content.[16]
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^ "The Oil Drum" . Twitter . Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future. Retrieved 28 September 2018 . A web-based/interactive energy, peak oil & sustainability research and news site; hosted by the nonprofit 501c3 Institute for the Study of Energy and Our Future
^ "Support The Oil Drum" . The Oil Drum. 2009-04-22.
^ "ONLINE CONSUMERS CALL FOR GREATER TRANSPARENCY IN STRATEGIES FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY, ACCORDING TO NIELSEN ONLINE" (PDF) (Press release). Nielsen Online . 2008-03-31.
^ Bartlett, Roscoe (2008-02-28). "Congressional Record: PEAK OIL" (PDF) . Archived from the original (PDF) on 2008-07-30.
^ Krugman, Paul (2008-04-19). "Commodity prices: Deja vu all over again" . New York Times …the peakers I read…
^ Kunstler, James Howard. "Jim Kunstler's Forecast 2007" . Archived from the original on 2008-06-20. …the web's best oil debate site…
^ Ryan, Oliver (2005-12-26). "The Rainwater Prophecy" . Fortune . http://allfinancialmatters.com/2005/12/20/read-what-richard-rainwater-reads-oil-blogs/ .
^ "DEAD AIR SPACE" . Radiohead . Archived from the original on 2007-08-16.
^ "2008 ASPO-USA Peak Oil Conference Proceedings" (PDF) .
^ "Staff Biographies" . The Oil Drum.
^ Vallance, Chris (2005-08-29). "Up All Night Pods and Blogs program summary" . BBC Radio 5 Live .
^ Maciulis, Tony (2005-09-22). "Connected: Coast to Coast: What's on the show Wednesday" . NBC News .
^ Lavelle, Marianne (2008-01-07). "Beyond the Barrel: The Oil Drum: $100 a Barrel Quickens the Beat" . U.S. News & World Report .
^ Hamilton, James D. (October 2007). "Running Dry" . Atlantic Monthly .
^ "Software upgrade" . The Oil Drum. 2008-12-25.
^ "The Oil Drum | an End to Eight Years of the Oil Drum" .
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