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Welcome to the official
website for ASPO
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THE ASSOCIATION FOR
THE STUDY OF PEAK OIL&GAS |
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Next Big
Thing: Peak oil
Colin Campbell founded ASPO, the Association for the Study of Peak Oil, in January 2001. The start activity was a monthly newsletter that was sent out to interested persons. The next step was the organization of the first International Workshop on Oil Depletion in May 2002 in Uppsala, Sweden, by professor Kjell Aleklett. A Swedish TV-team and two journalists, one from Associated Press and one from Sweden, covered the meeting. During the year till the next workshop in Paris we could feel a growing interest for Peak Oil and in Paris we had several international TV-teams and journalists present. We asked the question “How to make the world aware of that the party is over”? An article in Oil and Gas Journal was a good start. We are now very pleased to read that Oil and Gas Journal thinks that the “Next Big Thing is Peak Oil”. Bob Williams: “The peak-oil debate is getting more polarized and more rancorous—and, especially noteworthy, more politicized. So here's an immodest prediction: The peak-oil debate will be the Next Big Thing. The story with legs. The overarching theme that will resonate throughout the oil and gas industry for decades to come. It will be propelled forward in the public consciousness not only by serious debate within the industry itself but also on the political hustings and by antioil forces who can't seem to pry Americans out of their sport utility vehicles even as war rages in the Middle East and Chicken Little lies sacrificed on the Kyoto altar. Iraq and Saudi Arabia will figure largely in that debate. So will Russia and the Caspian. And Orinoco oil and Athabasca tar sands. And reserves accounting and transparency. And alternate energy viability. “ Now it looks as everyone is interested in the workshop in Berlin in May 2004. |