Shell’s Arctic voyage marks beginning of peak oil era
Shell’s Arctic voyage marks beginning of peak oil era
Anglo-Dutch company’s search for resources in the Arctic is a sign that the world is running out of options for new oil reserves
By Andrew Critchlow, Commodities editor
In his critically acclaimed 2005 book ‘Twilight in the Desert’, the prominent oil economist Matthew R. Simmons predicted that Saudi Arabia’s oil wells would soon run dry.
His argument was based on the age of the seven main fields, which the kingdom still to this day depends upon to pump the bulk of its 10m barrels per day (bpd) of crude. These fields in the main have been producing for over a generation and, despite official figures placing Saudi Arabia’s proven reserves at over 260bn barrels, Mr Simmons argued that the kingdom would struggle to increase its output to keep pace with the projected increases in the demand over the next half century marking the beginning of a period known as “peak oil”.
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