House prices in Ireland

unrelated to energy, but I wanted to record these charts somewhere.

House prices in Dublin since 1996.

as of Q3 2010, we are back to 1999 levels in real terms

GDP and GDP per capita

7.6% fall last year.

Somewhere around 2004 levels in real terms.

Brazil oil production

Article this morning, says Brazil are going to invest $200 billion in developing oil reserves over the next 5 years .... that's a big big number.


Slide 34 on this presentation suggests that they aim to double production by 2020 to 4 million barrels per day ... which would bring it Iran's current level of production.