It is widely accepted that global discoveries of conventional oil have peaked and that the era of cheap oil has gone forever. This book demonstrates that the doom and gloom of the "Peak Oil" theory is mistaken. Clarke rebuts the arguments of Peak Oil's adherents and discusses the issues they ignore - rising crude oil prices, new or future technologies, potential improved exploration acreage and/or access to restricted world oil zones, changes in government policies, new corporate strategies, development in unconventional oils, and more.
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"The Battle for Barrels says we should take warnings of impending Armageddon with a pinch of salt."--Guardian
"It is a 'must read' antidote to the gloom and doom conclusions of oil scarcity."--Peter R. Odell, Professor Emeritus, International Energy Studies, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
"A successful demolition of the theories behind the peak-oil movement."--The Petroleum Economist
"It is a 'must read' antidote to the gloom and doom conclusions of oil scarcity."--Peter R. Odell, Professor Emeritus, International Energy Studies, Erasmus University, Rotterdam
"A successful demolition of the theories behind the peak-oil movement."--The Petroleum Economist
About the Author
Duncan Clarke is Chairman and CEO of Global Pacific & Partners, a private advisory firm operating from offices in London, The Hague, Johannesburg and Nicosia. He gained his PhD in economics in 1975, and was a lecturer, economist and advisor, before establishing GP&P, with a focus on economics and strategy in the worldwide upstream industry.
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19 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Waste of time and money,
This review is from: The Battle for Barrels: Peak Oil Myths & World Oil Futures (Hardcover)
This is my second attempt at reviewing this piece of garbage. The first one got magically taken away.Anyways, I'll be somewhat brief. The book stinks. It is a 10 page paper masquerading as a full-length book. This of course makes sense because the average person would feel cheated if they paid $20 for a 10 page paper. The author immediately starts into explaining generalities of the oil industry's current state and just repeats them over and over. No real intro into how the oil exploration industry works. In fact, you get almost no background at all. But you do get acronyms. Ohhhh.....the acronyms. ASPO. ODAC. IEA. EIA. MBOPD. CERA-IHS. MMBOPB. API. CTL. LNG. GDP. BOE. UNIDO. And that's just chapter 3. Really this is just a pointless book. I somewhat agree with the overall philosophy. I'm in the "yeah, we're running out of oil, but it's not all going to disappear in a single day so chill out" camp, but this book is a waste.
14 of 18 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Save your money--it's not worth it.,
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This review is from: The Battle for Barrels: Peak Oil Myths & World Oil Futures (Hardcover)
The message of this book would have made a great editorial, but it doesn't make a great book. The language is stilted, it rambles on and on, is repetitious and uses words such as "lacustrine" and foreign language phrases that are meaningless to probably most readers.To save you time and the price of the book, the gist of the book is this: The Peak Oil proponents are like those who predict the end of the world on a certain date, then, when that doesn't happen, chose another future date. They also ignore the possiblity of future oil finds. On the other hand, the author makes what appears to be a valid and reasoned argument that nobody has a clue as to how much oil there really is on earth, as exploration to find new basins/reservoirs is expensive, takes years, and is high risk (due to terrorism, politcs, etc.) For the reader interested in a view at the extreme opposite of the Peak Oil theory, in his book "The Deep Hot Biosphere," Thomas Gold gives arguments and evidence that we'll never run out of oil because it is continually being synthesized far beneath the surface of the earth by the extreme pressures and temperatures there.
1.0 out of 5 stars
Not worth the effort,
By Tamara Kreuz "Author, The Stray Cat Handbook" (Chicago, Illinois) - See all my reviews
This review is from: The Battle for Barrels: Peak Oil Myths & World Oil Futures (Hardcover)
Who was the intended audience for this book? Pissed off oil company economists? I can say with a fair amount of confidence that it was not aimed at your average person, because it was either very dry with tons of unexplained oil industry or economic jargon, or just plain hostile. Scorn for peak oil theorists virtually dripped from the pages. Not very compelling, and rather off-putting.
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