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Hubbert's peak

Hubbert's peak

The impending world oil shortage

Kenneth S. Deffeyes

218 pages, parution le 26/09/2003

Résumé

Geophysicist M. King Hubbert predicted in 1956 that U.S. oil production would reach its highest level in the early 1970s. Though roundly criticized by oil experts and economists, Hubbert's prediction came true in 1970.

In this revised and updated edition reflecting the latest information on the world supply of oil, Kenneth Deffeyes uses Hubbert's methods to find that world oil production will peak in this decade--and there isn't anything we can do to stop it. While long-term solutions exist in the form of conservation and alternative energy sources, they probably cannot--and almost certainly will not--be enacted in time to evade a short-term catastrophe.

Contents

  • Overview
  • The Origin of Oil
  • Oil Reservoirs and Oil Traps
  • Finding It
  • Drilling Methods
  • Size and Discoverability of Oil Fields
  • Hubbert Revisited
  • Rate Plots
  • The Future of Fossil Fuels
  • Alternative Energy Sources
  • A New Outlook
  • Notes
  • Index

L'auteur - Kenneth S. Deffeyes

Kenneth S. Deffeyes is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He grew up in the oilfields; his father was a pioneer petroleum engineer. At the Shell Oil research laboratory in Houston, he was a colleague of M. King Hubbert. He joined the Princeton faculty in 1967 and continued to participate in the petroleum industry as a consultant and as an expert witness. General readers best know Deffeyes as the guide/mentor in John McPhee's series of popular books on geology, collected and republished under the title Annals of the Former World.

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Éditeur(s) Princeton University Press
Auteur(s) Kenneth S. Deffeyes
Parution 26/09/2003
Nb. de pages 218
Format 15,5 x 23,5
Couverture Broché
Poids 330g
Intérieur Noir et Blanc
EAN13 9780691116259
ISBN13 978-0-691-11625-9

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