The Norwegian Petroleum Directorate (NPD) has cut its resource estimate for the Barents Sea by about 11%, it said today. The NPD said it had cut the Barents Sea play’s estimated recoverable resources from 1.03 billion cubic meters of oil…
The world is heading for a catastrophic energy crunch that could cripple a global economic recovery because most of the major oil fields in the world have passed their peak production, a leading energy economist has warned. Higher oil prices…
Publication date: 2000-12-16 First published in: Mathematical Geology Authors: A.A. Bartlett Abstract: A quantitative analytical method, using a spreadsheet, has been developed which allows the determination of values of the three parameters that characterize the Hubbert-style Gaussian error curve that…
Publication date: 2007-06-01 First Published In: The International Journal of Children’s Rights Authors: P. Tranter, S. Sharpe Abstract: Major social upheavals and crises are notorious as catalysts for the re-evaluation of values and the erosion or augmentation of human rights.…
Publication date: 1999-01-01 First published in: Journal of Business Administration and Policy Analysis Authors: R. Costanza et al Abstract: Ecology and economics developed as separate disciplines throughout their recent histories in the 20th century. While each has addressed the way…
Publication date: 2006-11-24 First published in: International Journal of Transdisciplinary Research Authors: C.A.S. Hall & K. Klitgaard Abstract: The realization that the conceptual base for much of conventional economics is quite flimsy is no longer news to either those who…
Publication date: 1997-04-07 First published in: Oil & Gas Journal Authors: Colin J. Campbell Abstract: In the worst days of the Battle of Britain, military commanders had to balance the need to commit fighter planes to defend the capital against…
Publication date: 2009-01-01 First Published in Natural Resources Research Authors: S.H. Mohr, G.M. Evans Abstract: Modeling oil production is of interest to society and hotly debated. Often anomalies have occurred which makes modeling oil production via a particular theory (e.g.,…
Publication date: 2009-04-01 First published in: Russian Geology and Geophysics Authors: A.E. Kontorovich Abstract: A probabilistic estimate of the global conventional recoverable oil resource was performed based on the concept of the Earth’s sedimentary cover as a holistic system. A…
Publication date: 2004-11-24 First published in: Ecological Modelling Authors: Charles A.S. Hall Abstract: Of the many extremely ingenious, powerful and, yes, frustrating concepts and approaches that Howard Odum left us, the one with the most power to change how we…