Hubbert's peak : the impending world oil shortage /
"In 1956, geophysicist M. King Hubbert - then working at the Shell research lab in Houston - predicted that U.S. oil production would reach its highest level in the early 1970s. Though roundly criticized and occasionally ridiculed by oil experts and economists, Hubbert's prediction came tr...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2001.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments
- Overview
- Origin of oil
- Oil reservoirs and oil traps
- Finding it
- Drilling methods
- Size and discoverability of oil fields
- Hubbert revisited
- Rate plots
- Future of fossil fuels
- Alternative energy sources
- New outlook.