Introduction to Peak Oil
R.W. Bentley
Bok · Engelsk · 2016
| Utgitt | Cham : : Springer International Publishing, , 2016.
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| Omfang | ix, 196 s. : ill.
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| Opplysninger | Acknowledgments; Contents; 1 Introduction; 1.1 The Purpose of this Book; 1.2 The Importance of Oil, and Hence the Difficulty of Transition; 1.3 Conventional Oil Versus Non-conventional Oil; 1.4 Oil Reserves Data: Proved Versus Proved-Plus-Probable; 1.4.1 Proved ('1P') Oil Reserves; 1.4.2 Oil Industry Proved-Plus-Probable ('2P') Reserves Data; 1.5 Structure of This Book; 2 Explaining Peak Oil: What It Is, and Why It Happens; 2.1 The Production Peak in an Individual Oil Field; 2.1.1 Typical Field Production Profiles; 2.1.2 Other Field Production Profiles. - 2.1.3 Examining Field Decline, and Hence Field 'Ultimate' by a Linearised Decline Curve2.1.4 Economic Constraints on Raising a Field's Production Post-Peak; 2.2 Conventional Oil Production in a Region (i.e., a Group of Fields); 2.2.1 A Simple Model of Oil Discovery and Production in a Region; 2.2.2 Realities Behind This Simple Model; 2.2.3 Summarising Findings from This Simple Model; 2.3 Predicting the Peak of Conventional Oil Production in a Region by Combining the 'Peak at Mid-Point' Rule with the 2P Discovery Trend; 2.3.1 The IHS Energy 'PEPS' Data. - 2.3.2 Oil Discovery and Production in Germany2.3.3 Could There Be a Later Peak? I.e.: Is the 2P Discovery Trend a Reliable Indicator of URR?; 2.3.4 Oil Discovery and Production in the UK; 2.3.5 Expecting (and not Expecting!) the UK Production Peak; 2.3.6 Oil Discovery and Production in Norway; 2.3.7 Oil Discovery and Production in Indonesia, Russia and Iraq; 2.3.8 Oil Discovery and Production in Saudi Arabia; 2.3.9 Summary of Findings on Peak Conventional Oil Production in Regions; 2.4 Peak of Global Conventional Oil Production; 2.4.1 IHS Energy Year-2000 Global Discovery and Production Data. - 2.4.2 More Recent Data on Global 2P Oil Discovery and Production2.4.3 Recoverable Volumes Available of Different Types of Oil as a Function of Cost; 2.4.4 Impact of the Price of Oil on the Availability of Oil; 2.4.5 Summary of Global Peak of Conventional Oil; 2.5 Peak of the Global Production of 'All-Oil', and 'All-Liquids'; 2.6 The Second Half of the Oil Age; 3 A Brief History of Forecasting Peak Oil; 3.1 Forecasts for Conventional Oil Production; 3.1.1 Oil Forecasts Prior to 1956; 3.1.2 Hubbert's Oil Forecasts. - 3.1.3 Other 'Technically-Based' Forecasts of Peak Conventional Oil Production, Made from the Early 1970s to Early 1980s3.1.4 Forecasts from Campbell/NPD, 1991; Petroconsultants (Laherrère, Demaison, Perrodon and Campbell), 1994-1996; and Campbell and Laherrère subsequently; 3.1.5 Forecasts Compared in UKERC Global Oil Depletion Report, 2009; 3.1.6 Current Forecasts for Conventional Oil; 3.2 Forecasting Production of Non-conventional Oils, & Other Liquids; 4 When Should We Expect the Peak?; 4.1 Peak in Fields and Regions; 4.2 The Global Peak; 4.3 Current Data on Production by Category of Oil. - 4.4 Conclusions on Expected Dates of Peak
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| ISBN | 9783319263700
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