Shaping the peak of world oil production

To gain insight into the potential time-varying shape of world oil production peaking, this author examined regions that have already peaked. Unencumbered regions and countries were considered. All had significant peak production and all are past their peak. Their experience shows that the onset of peaking can occur quite suddenly and is not obvious, even a year prior to the event. The peaking of world conventional oil production may or may not follow previous trends, but these observations may be valuable for planning...

Published in: World Oil Magazine, Vol. 226 No. 10 , October 2005
Available from: World Oil Magazine Online