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,…
Understanding Peak Oil Oil was formed in the geological past under well-understood processes. In fact, the bulk of current production comes from just two epochs of extreme global warming, 90 and 150 million years ago, when algae proliferated in the…
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…
We who work with the modeling of future production of oil know the importance of reserves. Colin Campbell, the founder of ASPO, has an interesting story to tell about the origin of the database that CERA uses and claims to…
2008 March 6: “From the steps of the Supreme Court to the White House press room, from global trading exchanges to the snowy reaches of Alaska — over the last week, you could hear the creak of history as it…
Press release from ASPO, The Association for the Study of Peak Oil&Gas ASPO and Peak oil theorists challenge Saudi Arabia Kjell Aleklett, President of ASPO In Paris, March 2, 2008, Ali al-Naimi, oil minister for the world’s largest crude producer,…
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…
A brief background Colin J. Campbell: “It was in Germany that ASPO had its origin. On December 7th in the year 2000, I was privileged to give a talk on oil depletion at the ancient University of Clausthal in the…
The second national conference of ASPO Italy will be held in Torino, Italy, on May 3rd of this year. The conference will be mainly in Italian, and, unfortunately, the budget doesn’t allow us to provide simultaneous translation. Nevertheless, our guest…