14 Jun 2006
ASPO5 Programme Unveiled!
The [Association for the Study of Peak Oil](http://www.aspoitalia.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=73&Itemid=46″ASPO5″) have just announced the preliminary line-up for this year’s ASPO5 conference in Pisa in July. Looks fantastic, if you can make it and you are interested in peak oil it really will be the place to be. Some great speakers, I am particularly looking forward to Robert Hirsch, Folke Gunther, Richard Heinberg and Jeremy Leggett (although I have to confess in my ignorance there are many speakers I’ve never heard of!). I’ve never been before, closest I’ve ever been to an ASPO conference is the little clips in the End of Suburbia. The full line up is as follows;
**ASPO 5. 18-19 July 2006 – San Rossore, Pisa, Italy.**
**Monday, 17 July**
All day: ASPO Committees meetings, Grand Hotel Duomo
14:30-18:00 Registration – Grand Hotel Duomo - Via S.Maria, 94 - PISA
18:00 – Reception offered by the Mayor of Pisa, City Hall, Pisa
18:30 – Projection of the film “The Power of Community� (City Hall, Pisa) (limited seats available)
**Tuesday 18, Parco di San Rossore - Pisa**
**MAIN SESSION (1st tent)**
8:30-9:30 Registration
9:30 Ugo Bardi (ASPO-Italy), Introduction to the conference
9:45 Marino Artusa (environment ministry of the Tuscan Region) Welcome address
10:00- 10:40 Colin Campbell (ASPO Honorary Chairman) – Keynote speech; The Age of Oil in Perspective
10:40-11:00- coffee break
**1st session: PEAK OIL I**
11:00-11:30 Kjell Aleklett (President, ASPO international), A world addicted to Oil, it is time to Sober up
11:30-12:00 Richard Heinberg, (New College of California; Post Carbon Institute) The Oil Depletion Protocol: A Plan to Avert Oil Wars, Terrorism, and Economic Collapse
12:00 – 12:30 Chris Skrebowsky (ODAC and Petroleum Review), Peak Oil - the Emerging Reality
12:30-13:00 Robert Hirsch (Science Applications International Corp.) Mitigation of Peak Oil - More Numbers
13:00 – 14:00 lunch
**2nd session: PEAK OIL II**
14:10 - 14:50Leonardo Maugeri (ENI) Title to be announced– Keynote Speech
14:50 – 15:20 Jean Laherrere (ASPO-France), Uncertainty on data and forecasts
15:20 – 15:45 Pierre René Baquis (ASPO-France) What future for hydrocarbons with the incoming peaks of oil and gas?
15:45 – 16:10 Jean Marie Bourdaire (ASPO-France) World Energy and Economy: What perspectives to 2050?
**3rd session: GAS AND COAL**
16:10 - 16:40 Peter Gerling (BGR, Federal Institute for Geosciences and Natural Resources, Germany), Coal - the prime energy of the future?
16:40 -17:10 Francesco Racheli (GE – Oil and Gas), Technology evolution to monetize ’stranded GAS’
17:10 -17:30 Marek Kolodzej, (University of Illinois) The North American Natural Gas Crisis
17:30 - snack and drinks
17: 30 – 19:30 POSTER SESSION
20:00 – social dinner -
**19 July**
**4th session MODELLING**
9:00 – 9:40 Dennis Meadows, (Laboratory for Interactive Learning Durham, NH, USA)– Keynote speech, Peak oil and the limits to growth
9:40-10:10 Charles Hall (State University of New York) EROI: The Key Variable in Assessing Alternative Energy Futures
10:10-10:40 Renato Guseo, University of Padova. World Oil Depletion: Diffusion Models, Price Effects, Strategic and Technological Interventions
10:40 -10:55 Ton Trjssenaar (Independent Expert) Jeu de Joule, a model for world energy
10:55 -11:10 Bertrand Michel (Institut Francais du Petrole) Oil Production : A probabilistic model of Hubbert’s curve
11:10-11:20- coffee break
**5th session ECONOMICS AND MARKETS**
11:20 – 11:50 Mahmoud Salameh, (Oil Market Consultancy Service) Peak Oil and the Rising Crude Oil Price
11:50 – 12:20 Andrew MCKillop (Ecohabitat), Oil prices and the economy: facts, views and opinions
12:20 – 12:40 Luca Barillaro (Compendium Consulting), New financial products: their impact on energy markets
12:40 -14:00 lunch
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**Afternoon 19**
**6th session GLOBAL ISSUES I**
14:00-14:40 Jeremy Leggett: (SolarCentury), Keynote Speech Peak oil, climate change, and the daunting arithmetic of carbon fuels.
14:40-15:10 Paul Metz (Integer Consult), Peak Oil & CSR - for newcomers, Corporate Social Responsibility
15:10-15:40 Rob Hopkins (Transition Culture) Plan B - enabling relocalisation as a response to peak oil
15:40- 16:10 Folke Gunther (Holon Ecosystem Consultants) Oil depletion and food depletion
**7th session GLOBAL ISSUES II**
16:20-16:50 Marcello Colitti (Independent Expert) The New Priority of the Oil Companies
16:50-17:20 Terence Ward, (Independent Expert) Iran and the US - Confrontation, Oil Disruption and the Impact
17:20-17:50 Chris Sanders, (Sanders Research associates) NATO: Out of Area and Out of Oil - the war for energy and the end of free markets
18:00-18:30 – Conclusion and Final Remarks
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**PARALLEL SESSIONS (2nd tent)**
8th session PANEL ON POST PEAK ISSUES
Tuesday 18, 15:00-17:30
Folke Gunther
Rob Hopkins
Faith Morgan
Richard Heinberg…..
**9th session ASPO SHOW**
Wednesday 19. 10:00 -12:30
Public presentation of national ASPO associations
Kjell Aleklett (ASPO International) - Keynote
Dick Lawrence (ASPO USA)
Luca Mercalli (ASPO Italy)
Hirose/Okubo (ASPO Japan)
Bruce Robinson (ASPO Australia)
…… (ASPO China)
…….. (ASPO Norway)
……… (ASPO Indonesia)