Decline of Rock Music and U.S Oil Production

So, our energy future will be determined by "rock stars". C'mon Ozzie, Mick and Keith, get after it!

Post Carbon Future?

Estimates of 21st Century World Energy Supplies

Peak Oil Revisited

Hubbert’s Peak or Yergin’s Plateau?
In 1956, Shell geologist M. King Hubbert correctly predicted that oil production in the United States would reach a peak around 1970. Since his Peak Oil theory fits so well with the Malthusian worldview of “Progressives”, anti-capitalists and anarchists, Hubbert has become a posthumous hero to the Left, an unusual role for a scientist polluted by the filthy lucre of the oil industry.

Hubbert's depiction of Global Peak Oil. From Wikipedia.

Peak Oil’s fundamental assumption is that the supply of oil is finite and fixed. The peak of the oil production curve is reached when half of the total resource base has been produced, so rate vs time exhibits a symmetric bell-shaped curve. Post peak, rate declines rapidly. Hubbert demonstrated a peak for oil production in Texas, and he extended his theory to correctly predict the time (but not the rate) of the peak for the U.S. World oil production is supposed to have peaked in the last five years or so.

Trans Alaska Pipeline Volumes

War Game Exposes Grim Reality: Few Oil Crisis Options

War Game Exposes Grim Reality: Few Oil Crisis Options: "War Game Exposes Grim Reality: Few Oil Crisis Options

The Oil Shockwave simulation event poses a hypothetical but very feasible scenario: What if there were a serious, crippling disruption to the world's oil supply?"

U.K. Peak Oil: Forties Field

Ghawar Field Oil Discoveries

Structure map in 3-D on the Jurassic Arab D.  Locations and dates of oil discoveries in various areas of the field.

Peak Oil Florida Style

Jay Field is on e of the largest onshore U.S. oil fields. it follows the typical production curve of ramping up during field development and then rapidly declining during the depletion phase. End stage is the slow end of phase decline.

Cantarell Field: Mexico's Declining Giant

The new energy plan... we're going to get help from our friends and neighbors. Cantarell was once the second largest oil field in the world. Makes you wonder about those Peak oil guys!

AAPG Explorer: Ghawar

Ghawar 01:2005 EXPLORER: "Saudi Arabia's Ghawar Field
The Elephant of All Elephants"
This is the field characterized as the one for the Peak oil enthusiasts to watch. Read "Twilight in the Desert" by the late Matt Simmons for a good scare!