Introduction to Peak Oil

• Main Author: Bentley, R.W (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2016.
• Series: Lecture Notes in Energy, 34
• Subjects: Energy.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Fossil fuels.; Energy industries.; Sustainable development.; Economic growth.; Fossil Fuels (incl. Carbon Capture).; Economic Growth.; Energy Economics.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Sustainable Development.

This book examines the physical and economic characteristics of the global oil resource to explain why peak oil has been so poorly understood. The author draws on information held in oil industry datasets that are not widely available outside of the specialist literature, and describes a number of m...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• Explaining peak oil: What it is, and why it happens
• A brief history of forecasting peak oil
• When should we expect the peak?
• Why has peak oil been so poorly understood?
• Caveats and conclusions
• Definitions
• Oil reserves data: 1P vs. 2P
• Suggestions for use of IHS Energy’s ‘PEPS’ dataset
• Further aspects of oil forecasting
• Detail on specific oil forecasts
• Peak oil and climate change
• Peak demand
• Peak gas
• Reading University ‘Oil group’ and publications.