Synopses & Reviews
Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion, Second Edition, is the product of a half-century of critical analysis and updating of
Review
From the reviews of the second edition:"If you are looking for an authoritative analysis of oil and gas depletion, minus caricature, clichés and political statements ... then look no further than this book. ... The Atlas will educate and inform those interested in the oil and gas industry's future and the challenges it faces - be they existential or commercial. In particular, those professionals involved with policymaking, petroleum economics, history of the oil and gas business, academia and market analysis." (Oilholics Synonymous Report, May, 2013)
Synopsis
Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion, Second Edition,
Synopsis
Campbell's Atlas of Oil and Gas Depletion, Second Edition, is the product of a half-century of critical analysis and updating of data on the status of oil and gas depletion by country, region and the world as a whole. Separate analyses of conventional and non-conventional oil and gas, which are depleting at different rates and costs, show when these critical energy sources peak and decline. The Atlas also summarizes the history and political circumstances of each country to assess the impact on oil and gas production and reserves. It contrasts the First Half of the Oil Age, which saw the rapid expansion of the world economy, allowing the population to grow six-fold, with the Second Half, which will witness a general contraction as these easy, high-density energy supplies dwindle. The transition threatens to be a time of great economic, financial and political tensions. The Atlas, which has been compiled and updated by prominent geologist, former oil company executive, and oil analyst Colin Campbell since the 1960s, addresses the need for a reliable and comprehensive database on a subject essential to governments, industry, academia, and the population as a whole as we attempt to adapt to these critically changing circumstances.
Synopsis
Compiled since the 1960s by the geologist, former oil executive and oil analyst Colin Campbell, this book synthesizes a half-century of critical analysis and data on the status of oil and gas depletion by country, by region and for the world as a whole.
About the Author
Colin Campbell was born in 1931 in Berlin, Germany, but stayed only three months before his father, an architect, returned to his home country as his successful practice in Germany had crashed in the Depression. Colin then had a rather isolated childhood at Chapel Point, a rocky headland in Cornwall in the west of England, where his father was building the first houses of what he hoped to be a model village. But the Second World War brought that project to an end. School days followed before he succeeded in getting into Oxford University in 1951 to read geology. He enjoyed university life greatly and stayed on to take a D.Phil (Ph.D), based on mapping a remote part of Connemara in Ireland and the interior of Borneo to which he went on a university expedition. University days came to an end in 1957 and he went on to work for Texaco in Trinidad as a field geologist. There he came under the influence of Hans Kugler, a Swiss scientist who was one of the pioneers of micro-palaeontology and a great inspiration. In 1959, he was transferred to Colombia and had many colourful experiences mapping often bandit-infested remote areas on mule-back, and making a fossil collection to unravel Andean geology.
Table of Contents
PrefaceForeword
Units and Conversion Factors
Part I: Introduction, Reporting, and Methodology
Chapter 1- INTRODUCTION
Chapter 2 - THE ESTIMATION AND REPORTING OF RESERVES AND PRODUCTION
Chapter 3 - THE METHODOLOGY OF THE DEPLETION MODEL
Part II: AFRICA
Chapter 4: Algeria