Introduction to Peak Oil

This book examines the physical and economic characteristics of the global oil resource to explain why peak oil has been so poorly understood. The author draws on information held in oil industry datasets that are not widely available outside of the speci

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R.W. Bentley

Introduction to Peak Oil

Lecture Notes in Energy Volume 34

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R.W. Bentley Department of Cybernetics University of Reading Reading UK

ISSN 2195-1284 Lecture Notes in Energy ISBN 978-3-319-26370-0 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-26372-4

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