Hubbert's Peak : : The Impending World Oil Shortage - New Edition / / Kenneth S. Deffeyes.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Deffeyes, Kenneth S.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2008]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Edition: New edition with a New commentary by the author
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 25 halftones. 50 line illus.

In 2001, Kenneth Deffeyes made a grim prediction: world oil production would reach a peak within the next decade--and there was nothing anyone could do to stop it. Deffeyes's claim echoed the work of geophysicist M. King Hubbert, who in 1956 predicted that U.S. oil production would reach its highest level in the early 1970s. Though roundly criticized by oil experts and economists, Hubbert's prediction came true in 1970. In this updated edition of Hubbert's Peak, Deffeyes explains the crisis that few now deny we are headed toward. Using geology and economics, he shows how everything from the rising price of groceries to the subprime mortgage crisis has been exacerbated by the shrinking supply--and growing price--of oil. Although there is no easy solution to these problems, Deffeyes argues that the first step is understanding the trouble that we are in.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- Preface to the 2008 Edition -- Acknowledgments -- CHAPTER 1. Overview -- CHAPTER 2. The Origin of Oil -- CHAPTER 3. Oil Reservoirs and Oil Traps -- CHAPTER 4. Finding It -- CHAPTER 5. Drilling Methods -- CHAPTER 6. Size and Discoverability of Oil Fields -- CHAPTER 7. Hubbert Revisited -- CHAPTER 8. Rate Plots -- CHAPTER 9. The Future of Fossil Fuels -- CHAPTER 10. Alternative Energy Sources -- CHAPTER 11. A New Outlook -- NOTES -- INDEX