The Economics of Oil A Primer Including Geology, Energy, Economics, Politics /

• Main Author: Carmalt, S.W (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Energy,
• Subjects: Energy.; Energy policy.; Energy and state.; Energy industries.; Economic growth.; Energy Policy, Economics and Management.; Economic Growth.; Energy Economics.

This book examines the ways that oil economics will impact the rapidly changing global economy, and the oil industry itself, over the coming decades. The predictions of peak oil were both right and wrong. Oil production has been constrained in relation to demand for the past decade, with a resulting...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction and current situation
• Financing oil projects
• Combining projects into programs
• Management or geology
• Peak oil theory
• Energy in the economy
• Oil’s role in economy will change
• Importance of policy
• Looking ahead at oil and natural gas
• “Muddling through”.