Peak Oil is still the reality of the future In a reply to my previous contribution, “The falling oil price may presage a future recession”, Civil Economist Magnus Grill ( 19 October in Swedish ) says that I assert, “that Peak Oil does not mean that oil will run out rather than that demand for oil will disappear. Thus it is no longer a question of Peak Oil from a production standpoint rather than now it is from a demand standpoint. This means that Aleklett has completely altered his early reasoning.” I must disappoint Magnus Grill. Peak Oil is still related to production of oil from oilfields. When we discuss Peak Oil we do this based on the fact that oil production in an area or group of areas reaches a maximum and then declines. There are several factors that determine the production profile when production begins […]