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The following graph from Energyfiles shown by Matthew Simmons in a 2007 slide presentation explains the desperate fight for oil after the US peak in 1970
http://www.simmonsco-intl.com/files/UCSB.pdf
1970 US peak oil, together with 1st peak from shallow water
1971 Convertability of US dollar to gold discontinued. Increasing quantities of oil [...]
My submission to the Metropolitan Transport Plan proposal
http://www.nsw.gov.au/metropolitantransportplan
is here:
26/5/2010 Comments on Metropolitan Transport Plan
http://www.crudeoilpeak.com/pdfs/37
Contents of this PDF file:
Summary
1 Time table of events 2010 – 2020
2 Why the Sydney Metropolitan Strategy is totally flawed
2.1 Population Scenarios
2.2 Planning hierarchy omits resource analysis
2.3 Financial crisis will not go away
2.4 Cancellation of Epping – Parramatta rail link
3 Why we’ll [...]
Since a May 2009 minimum of 71,524 kb/d crude oil production has recovered by 2 mb/d in February 2010 and is now basically back to where it was at the beginning of 2005, for that time of the year.
Let’s have a look at that hump on the bumpy production plateau which developed since a recession [...]
The West Australian Department of Mining and Petroleum published its latest statistics for 2009 on 27/4/2010 http://www.dmp.wa.gov.au/7105_10347.aspx
Crude oil production dropped from 13.1 GL in 2008 to 9.5 GL in 2009. The following graph shows the stacked production profiles of all oil producing fields in WA:
We can clearly see the production battle out there in those [...]