The legendary oilman, T. Boone Pickens, is famous for his knowledge of the oil market. He is often correct in his predictions. Mr. Pickens is also known for his belief in peak oil and the fact that the world oil…
The Mexican oil company, Pemex, released figures of the crude production in April. The decline is 13%, the most in more than 12 years, as output at its largest field, Cantarell declined faster than the company forecast. Output has been…
Dr. Bob Hirsch was on CNBC last night, and discussed about the future of the oil reserves. We uploaded the video to Youtube for our readers.
Publication date: 2007-12-01 First Published in Energy Policy Authors: R. Bentley et al Abstract: Combining geological knowledge with proved plus probable (‘2P’) oil discovery data indicates that over 60 countries are now past their resource-limited peak of conventional oil production.…
John Hofmeister, president of Royal Dutch Shell’s US operations, was interviewed about peak oil and the supply issue on CNBC’s Squawk Box. He attacked the peak oil theory as popularized by Matthew Simmons, the author of “Twilight in the Desert:…
Colin Campbell has over 40 years of experience in the oil industry. He earned a Ph.D. in geology from the University of Oxford in 1957 and had worked as a petroleum geologist in the field, as a manager, and as…
A,B,C,D ASPO The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas Cumulative production The cumulative production is the sum of all oil that has ever been produced until a specific date. Cumulative production can be given for a field,…
Kjell Aleklett, ASPO President About Professor in Physics at the Department of Physics and Astronomy, Global Energy Systems Group (former Uppsala Hydrocarbon Depletion Study Group) at Uppsala University. Contact E-mail: Kjell.Aleklett@fysast.uu.se Blog in English: Aleklett’s Energimix Phone: +46-(0)18-471 58 25…
In The Indepent on Sunday, March 2, 2008, Dr. Fatih Birol, chief economist at the International Energy Agency, give his outside view about future oil: “We can’t cling to crude: we should leave oil before it leaves us.” Some statements…
A new book on peak oil has been released in Arabic. The title is “Oil, peak production and the consequence of decline” and the author is Hatem Elsayed Hany Elrefaai from Egypt. The book offers an overview of the problems…