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Category: Peak Oil

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The Very Real Possibility Of Peak Oil Supply

Three months ago, British oil giant BP Plc. (NYSE:BP) sent shockwaves through the oil and gas sector after it declared that Peak Oil demand was already behind us. In the Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • China
  • Peak Oil

China’s Top Refiner Sees Oil Product Demand Peak By 2025

China’s largest refiner, Sinopec, expects domestic demand for oil products to peak by 2025 due to COVID impacts and the rise of electric vehicles, Argus reported on Friday, citing Sinopec’s Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Pandemic brings forward predictions for peak oil demand

The COVID-19 pandemic this year has dented oil consumption and brought forward forecasts by energy majors, producers and analysts for when the world’s demand for oil may peak. The rise Continue Reading

Posted On : 18 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Peak Oil Is Suddenly Upon Us

A year ago, if anyone in the petroleum business had suggested that the moment of Peak Oil  had already passed, they would have been laughed right off the drilling rig. Then Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Has peak oil been and gone?

If I had of said to most of you reading this a year ago that 2020 would see negative oil prices , the world economy collapse and record highs in Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Oil Industry Will Never Be the Same After Covid

A year ago, if anyone in the petroleum business had suggested that the moment of Peak Oil had already passed, they would have been laughed right off the drilling rig. Continue Reading

Posted On : 1 Dec 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Peak Oil Never Went Away

Do you remember peak oil? It was all the rage a decade ago. Now, almost no one is talking about it. The funny thing is, the problem never went away. Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 Nov 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Peak oil is coming – it’s just a question of when

This month marks a historic but largely forgotten moment in the history of the oil sector, and something that is unlikely to ever be repeated if forecasts for the demise Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Oct 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Oil demand to peak by 2040 as transport demand stagnates post-coronavirus: IEEJ

 Global oil demand is forecast to peak by around 2040 because transport-fuel demand will decline steeply and economic growth will slow in the post-coronavirus world, the Institute of Energy Economics, Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Oct 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Forget Peak Oil Demand, Supply Crisis Could be Hitting First

In today’s IEA’s annual World Energy Outlook 2020 report, the OECD energy watchdog states that it doesn’t see a peak oil demand before 2040, only a possible oil demand flattening. Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Oct 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Heinberg: Has oil peaked?

Last month, the world’s 4 th largest oil company—BP— predicted that the world will never again consume as much petroleum as it did last year. So, have we finally hit Continue Reading

Posted On : 10 Oct 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Another Oil Major Sees Peak Oil Demand On The Horizon

French energy giant Total SE (formerly Total S.A.) spread more doom and gloom into the oil markets today, foretelling of the oil industry’s ultimate horror—peak oil demand. In its Energy Continue Reading

Posted On : 30 Sep 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Analysis: World has already passed ‘peak oil’, BP figures reveal

The world has already passed “peak oil” demand, according to Carbon Brief analysis of the latest energy outlook from oil major BP. The 2020 edition of the annual outlook reveals Continue Reading

Posted On : 26 Sep 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Analysis: World has already passed ‘peak oil’, BP figures reveal

The world has already passed “peak oil” demand, according to Carbon Brief analysis of the latest energy outlook from oil major BP. The 2020 edition of the annual outlook reveals Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 Sep 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

So, We’re Back To “Peak Oil” Again

During a panel discussion in which I participated recently with three energy experts, the moderator asked us if we agreed with the recent projection by British oil giant BP that Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Sep 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Has Oil Demand Peaked?

1. BP sees oil demand already at a peak – BP (NYSE: BP) made major headlines this week when it released its latest energy outlook, which laid out three scenarios, Continue Reading

Posted On : 19 Sep 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • BP
  • Peak Oil

BP Sees Peak Oil, Even Without Major New Laws on Climate Change

One of the biggest international oil companies has concluded that oil consumption will peak this decade. That’s the main takeaway from BP Plc’s annual energy outlook published this week outlining a handful of scenarios Continue Reading

Posted On : 18 Sep 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • BP
  • Peak Oil

What BP Got Wrong About Global Oil Demand

Environmentalists around the world are having a field day this week as international media picks up on the oil market forecasts in the recently released BP Energy Outlook 2020. It Continue Reading

Posted On : 17 Sep 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Total CEO predicts peak oil by 2040

Speaking at the ONS Digital Conference in a video presentation, Patrick Pouyanne, the CEO of Total SA, said he now expects oil production to peak between 2030 and 2040, although Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Sep 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

The End of Oil Is Near

THIS PAST SPRING, coastlines around the globe took on the feel of an enemy invasion as hundreds of massive oil tankers overwhelmed seaports from South Africa to Singapore. Locals and Continue Reading

Posted On : 28 Aug 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

After Decades of Wrong Predictions, Oil May Finally Be Peaking

After one of the most dramatic stretches in its history, the oil industry is slowly recovering. March and April saw the toxic combination of depressed demand, excessive supply, limited storage Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Shale boss says US has passed peak oil

US crude production has already peaked, according to one of the country’s leading shale executives, as producers battered by the price crash shun new output growth and start trying to Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Global oil demand unlikely to have peaked due to pandemic: IEA’s Birol

Global oil demand will likely to recover to above pre-pandemic levels in the future despite some predictions that the crisis may have already triggered a structural decline in world oil Continue Reading

Posted On : 7 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

How the Pandemic Is Changing the Outlook for Peak Oil

One big question emerging from the pandemic is whether it will speed up the global shift away from oil. Life under lockdown gave a taste of a world that burns Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Jul 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Oil, fossil fuel demand may have peaked in 2019 thanks to COVID-19: report

Both crude oil and overall fossil fuel demand may have permanently peaked in 2019 if a slower economic recovery from the coronavirus pandemic becomes reality, hastening the arrival of peak Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Jun 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Are We Nearing Peak Oil Supply?

Are we now deep in the abyss? Up to our necks in it, if the oil price is any guide. Brent has now tested sub-U.S.$20 a barrel in this downturn Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Jun 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Prospect Of Peak Oil Demand Puts Cap On Total Global Oil Reserves

The 2020 release of Rystad Energy’s annual global energy outlook reveals that the Covid-19 downturn will expedite peak oil demand, putting a lid on exploration efforts in remote offshore areas Continue Reading

Posted On : 18 Jun 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Kurt Cobb: Peak World Oil Production?

We who have been suggesting that a peak in world oil production was nigh almost from the beginning of this century looked like we might be right when oil prices Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 Jun 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Peak Oil Isn’t Here But It Could Be In Sight

By one oil consultancy’s estimate, Peak Oil will be here by 2028, or two years sooner than it previously had predicted, according to Reuters . That ceiling would be somewhere Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 May 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

A stealth peak in world oil production?

We who have been suggesting that a peak in world oil production was nigh almost from the beginning of this century looked like we might be right when oil prices Continue Reading

Posted On : 25 May 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Has Demand For Oil Already Peaked?

Oil prices continue to rise on the prospect of a rebound in fuel demand as economies begin to reopen. But there is a large difference between oil demand rising from Continue Reading

Posted On : 13 May 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Is November 2019 the New US Peak Oil Date?

Here I am again reporting on out of date US February oil production from the EIA April report after the world oil environment has been turned on its head. Fortunately Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 May 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

This Is What The End Of The Oil Age Looks Like

The Oil Age has powered the world for well over a century. There have been two general schools of thought about how it will ultimately end. There were those who Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Apr 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Italy
  • Peak Oil

This Oil Major Expects Its Oil Production To Peak In 2025

Italy’s Eni expects its oil production to start declining after 2025 under its new long-term strategy to rely on natural gas, renewables, and new technologies to cut net greenhouse gas Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Italy
  • Peak Oil

Eni plans oil, gas production ‘plateau’ in 2025 under energy ‘evolution’

Highlights Sees gas making up about 85% of total production in 2050 Eni targets 80% cut in net GHG emissions by 2050 To convert all Italian refineries to biorefining sites Continue Reading

Posted On : 29 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Will peak oil save Earth’s climate?

In spite of record increases in solar and wind energy development, human carbon emissions continue to rise because, over the last decade, fossil fuel use has grown ten-times faster than Continue Reading

Posted On : 24 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Many signs of peak oil and decline

Recently the IEA 2018 World Energy Outlook predicted an oil crunch could happen as soon as 2023. Oil supermajors are expected to have 10 years of reserve life or more, Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 Feb 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Peak oil demand could arrive much sooner than expected, says oil firm

Repsol has drilled oil wells in Libya Benjamin Lowy/Getty Images The world’s appetite for oil could peak within five years, according to one of Europe’s biggest oil and gas firms Continue Reading

Posted On : 7 Jan 2020 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Explaining Peak Oil the Easy Way

A reader has written to me to say that she does not completely understand if we have a serious problem with oil or not, and I have written her a Continue Reading

Posted On : 16 Dec 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Peak oil demand is now  

The theory of “peak oil demand” was a techno-utopian response to the supposed debunking of the peak oil theory first set out by M. King Hubbert in the 1950s.  Hubbert’s Continue Reading

Posted On : 9 Oct 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Peak Oil Postponed… Again: US EIA International Energy Outlook

The U.S. Department Of Energy Says More Oil, More Natural Gas  Numerous energy headlines from this past week alone caught my attention. They perfectly illustrate the massive scale of investment Continue Reading

Posted On : 3 Oct 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Peak Oil Demand Is Coming, Will Transform Exploration Sector

The global trend toward alternative energy sources and shifting stakeholder sentiments could mark the demise of the oil and gas exploration sector. It may also represent an opportunity to transform. Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Jul 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Oil demand won’t peak until 2035

“At some point in the next 20 years, it’s likely we’re going to see oil demand peak. Our own view at Wood Mackenzie, is around 2035, 2036,” Wood Mackenzie chairman Continue Reading

Posted On : 26 Jun 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Oil Shock Model Scenarios

Many different oil shock model scenarios have been presented over time at Peak Oil Barrel. Information on the Oil Shock Model, originally developed by Paul Pukite can be found in Continue Reading

Posted On : 8 Jun 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Oil Supply
  • Peak Oil

The Slow Death Of Californian Oil & Gas

Entrepreneurs in California were pioneers of the American oil industry in the 19 th and the beginning of the 20 th century. One of the oldest still producing oil fields Continue Reading

Posted On : 26 Apr 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

The Largely Ignored Problem Of Global Peak Oil Will Seriously Hit In A Few Years

The era of oil is coming to an end, with global oil production set to halve in the next five to six years. To avoid a global economic slump, the Continue Reading

Posted On : 20 Apr 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Michael Lynch: The Curious Incident Of The Oil Supply That Didn’t Decline

Interestingly, there are still peak oil advocates who think that we’ve reached peak oil now, despite the fact that shale oil production is still growing, OPEC+ has about 1.5 mb/d Continue Reading

Posted On : 21 Mar 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Was 2018 The Peak For Crude Oil Production?

The following OPEC charts were created with data from the OPEC Monthly Oil Market Report . All OPEC charts are through February 2019 and is in thousand barrels per day. Continue Reading

Posted On : 15 Mar 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Gail Tverberg: Have We Already Passed World Peak Oil and World Peak Coal?

General Ideas Most people expect that our signal of an impending reduction in world oil or coal production will be high prices. Looking at historical data (for example, this post Continue Reading

Posted On : 23 Feb 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple
Category:
  • Peak Oil

Gail Tverberg on Peak Oil

A few years ago, especially in the 2005-2008 period, many people were concerned that the oil supply would run out . They were concerned about high oil prices and a Continue Reading

Posted On : 4 Feb 2019 Published By : Tom Whipple

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