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The myth of the oil crisis : overcoming the challenges of depletion, geopolitics, and global warming / Robin M. Mills.
Lippincott Library HD9560.5 .M553 2008
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Mills, Robin M., 1976-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Petroleum reserves.
- Petroleum industry and trade.
- Energy policy.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 317 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, [2008]
- Contents:
- 2 Opposing Viewpoints 11
- The Geologists 11
- Inevitability of Decline 12
- Pessimism on the Resource Base 13
- The Consequences 14
- The Economists 14
- Elasticity of Supply and Demand 15
- Optimism on the Resource Base 15
- The Militarists 16
- The Environmentalists 18
- The Neo-Luddites 19
- 3 Bust and Boom: How We Got to Where We Are Today 21
- The Doldrums, 1986-1998 21
- The Hurricane, 1999-2007 24
- Demand Bites Back 24
- The Dog That Didn't Bark 29
- 4 Half-Full or Half-Empty? Conventional Oil Supply 33
- Peak Oil 34
- Hubbert's Curve 35
- The Reserves Conundrum 50
- Exploration Potential 58
- Surveys of Global Exploration Potential 69
- Reserves Growth 78
- Enhanced Oil Recovery 84
- The Fallacy of "Easy Oil" 91
- Sources of New Supply 94
- 5 Dead Dinosaurs?: The Major Oil Nations 107
- Saudi Arabia 108
- Saudi Reserves 109
- Technology and Technical Problems 111
- Exploration Potential 115
- Decline in Saudi Production? 117
- Could Saudi Arabia Be Replaced? 118
- Iran 118
- Iraq 120
- United Arab Emirates 122
- Kuwait 123
- Qatar 123
- Other Middle East 124
- Libya 125
- Algeria 126
- Sudan 127
- Nigeria 127
- Angola 129
- Russia 130
- Kazakhstan 133
- Azerbaijan 135
- Venezuela 136
- Mexico 136
- Brazil 137
- United States 138
- Canada 140
- Norway 141
- United Kingdom 142
- China 143
- India 143
- New Frontiers 144
- West and Southern Africa 145
- East Africa 146
- Interior Africa 146
- South and Southeast Asia and Australasia 147
- Central and South America 149
- Arctic 150
- Antarctic 151
- 6 Scraping the Barrel? Unconventional Oil Supply 153
- Natural Gas Liquids 157
- Tight Oil 158
- Heavy and Extra-Heavy Oil 159
- Oil Sands 160
- Oil Shale 163
- Gas to Liquids 165
- Coal and Biomass to Liquids 167
- Biofuels 168
- Kinetics: The Speed of Commercialization 169
- 7 Gas Giants 179
- The Peak Gas Theory 179
- Global Gas Resources 180
- Unconventional Gas 184
- The Role of Gas 187
- 8 A Dangerous Neighborhood? Supply, Investment, and Geopolitics 189
- Barriers to Investment 189
- Resource Nationalism and the "Oil Curse" 191
- Energy Security 195
- Energy Security as Interdependence 202
- 9 Keeping the Lights On: Energy Demand 205
- Worthy Substitutes: Other Energy Sources 206
- Resource Constraints on Alternative Fuels 208
- Energy Intensity of the Energy System 210
- Other Consequences of Alternative Energies 213
- Personal Virtue? Efficiency 215
- Oiling the Wheels: Transport Fuel Demand 217
- Synthesis 219
- 10 Green Oil: Saving the Environment 221
- Local Impacts 221
- Global Climate Change 225
- Carbon Sequestration 227
- Carbon Intensity of Unconventional Oil 232
- Year Zero: The Neo-Luddites 234.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-281) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780313354793
- 0313354790
- 9780313364983
- 0313364982
- OCLC:
- 191922507
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