![]() | Hubbert''s Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage (New Edition) Subjects: Petroleum reserves; Petroleum industry and trade; Petroleum reserves -- Forecasting; Petroleum industry and trade -- Forecasting; 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. Kenneth S. Deffeyes is professor emeritus at Princeton University. Prior to teaching, he worked alongside M. King Hubbert at the Shell Oil research laboratory in Houston. |
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