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The "Peak Oil" Myth Debunked - There is plenty of oil for another century (Paperback)
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The "Peak Oil" Myth Debunked - There is plenty of oil for another century (Paperback)
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Peak Oil theory is wrong, period. The book starts analyzing the
repeated false prophesies bawled by both relevant personalities and
inexperienced doomsayers that through the years were echoed by
serious and prestigious news media, sometimes even quoted by
influential heads of state. Oil production and reserves data proves
that they were wrong in every instance. Year after year their
calculations proved to be erroneous, but yet they still declare
that the gloomy days are close. Today with a slight change in the
stage design of the drama: now it is not a question of oilfields
becoming exhausted, but rather that gas will soon be so expensive
that only the most opulent will be able to fill their tanks.
Oilfields historical production curves do not follow the "bell
shaped" curve as defined by M. King Hubbert. After the steep surge
of yield resulting from a discovery and later maximum withdrawal,
the fall in production is not symmetrical to the rise and tends to
be much flatter. Actually in most of the cases there is no defined
"peak" but rather a maximum yield "plateau." The smooth diminishing
rate of flow is simply results from the use of enhanced recovery
techniques (EOR) employed to stimulate the surfing of oil rising
from the reservoir rock in depth. The doomsters also ignore the
potential of future oil discoveries in unknown or poorly explored
sedimentary basins all over the world. Evaluations done by
international or national organizations such as the US Energy
Information Administration (EIA) are throwing new light over
undiscovered thick and extensive sedimentary basins potentially
endowed with substantial oil and gas resources. Drilling for oil is
the basic and ultimate tool to define an oil deposit. Only a well
can tell whether we are dealing with a future oilfield or a barren
area. Yet, one must consider that in the last 100 years 50% of the
wells drilled in the world were sunk on the US territory, that is,
over a surface that makes only 6.6% of the total continental lands
in the planet. This fact alone is solid evidence that the rest of
the world is poorly explored. WORLD WIDE OIL EXPLORATION IS IN ITS
INFANCY and many extensive sedimentary basins with potential oil
resources are still unknown and awaiting for both adventurous
entrepreneurs and highly experienced multinationals to bring
billions of barrels up to the light. This fact together with the
present reserves estimations allows us to sustain that there is oil
enough to take us till the end of the century, easily surpassing
the "oil depletion" prophecy that doomsayers wrongly predicted for
2005 or successive years. THIS WITHOUT CONSIDERING AT ALL THE
AWESOME NEW OIL RESERVES THAT CAN BE ADDED BY THE USE OF THE NEW
REVOLUTIONARY TECHNIQUES THAT ALLOW FUTURE OIL TAPPING FROM OIL
SHALES AND GAS SHALES. .
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