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Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage
by Kenneth S. Deffeyes
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780691116259 |
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Synopses & Reviews
Review:
"Deffeyes has reached a conclusion with far-reaching consequences for the entire industrialized world. . . . The conclusion is this: in somewhere between two and six years from now, worldwide oil production will peak. After that, chronic shortages will become a way of life. The 100-year reign of King Oil will be over." Fred Guterl, Newsweek
Review:
"A most readable handbook. . . . If [Deffeyes] is right we have, at most, two or three years in which to prepare for yet another price shock, and to accelerate our move away from oil as fuel. The strength of the book lies in its solid background and well-explained basis for that single prediction." Stuart Young, Nature
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"Deffeyes makes a persuasive case. . . . This is an oilman and geologist's assessment of the future, grounded in cold mathematics. And it's frightening." Paul Raeburn, Scientific American
Review:
"An important new book." Robert Kuttner, Boston Globe
Review:
"The story behind Hubbert's analysis?is told with engaging wit, humor, and great insight. . . . Deffeyes writes with the taut reasoning of a scientist and the passion of someone raised in the industry. . . . His background is ideal for the subject, and the book is a gem. . . . Read Hubbert's Peak." Brian J. Skinner, American Scientist
Review:
"[Some] experts . . . worry that the global peak in production will come in the next decade. . . . A heavyweight has now joined this gloomy chorus. Kenneth Deffeyes argues in a lively new book that global oil production could peak as soon as 2004." The Economist
Review:
"A persuasive prophecy. Hubbert's story is important and needs to be told. I suspect that historians in years to come will recognise Hubbert's Peak as a historical turning point." Tim Burnhill, New Scientist
About the Author
Kenneth S. Deffeyes is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University. He grew up in the oilfields; his father was a pioneer petroleum engineer. At the Shell Oil research laboratory in Houston, he was a colleague of M. King Hubbert. He joined the Princeton faculty in 1967 and continued to participate in the petroleum industry as a consultant and as an expert witness. General readers best know Deffeyes as the guide/mentor in John McPhee's series of popular books on geology, collected and republished under the title Annals of the Former World.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments ix
CHAPTER 1 Overview 1
CHAPTER 2 The Origin of Oil 14
CHAPTER 3 Oil Reservoirs and Oil Traps 40
CHAPTER 4 Finding It 70
CHAPTER 5 Drilling Methods 88
CHAPTER 6 Size and Discoverability of Oil Fields 113
CHAPTER 7 Hubbert Revisited 133
CHAPTER 8 Rate Plots 150
CHAPTER 9 The Future of Fossil Fuels 159
CHAPTER 10 Alternative Energy Sources 176
CHAPTER 11 A New Outlook 186
Notes 191
Index 205
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780691116259
- Subtitle:
- The Impending World Oil Shortage
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
- Location:
- Princeton, N.J.
- Subject:
- General
- Subject:
- Power Resources
- Subject:
- Natural Resources
- Subject:
- Petroleum industry and trade
- Subject:
- Petroleum
- Subject:
- Petroleum reserves.
- Subject:
- Earth Sciences
- Subject:
- Political Science and International Relations
- Subject:
- Economics
- Subject:
- Geological Science
- Subject:
- Power Resources - General
- Copyright:
- 2003
- Edition Description:
- Trade paper
- Series Volume:
- 80
- Publication Date:
- October 2003
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- College/higher education:
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 224
- Dimensions:
- 9.16x6.28x.57 in. .73 lbs.
