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The future of oil and hydrocarbon man

Colin Campbell · CERN

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Man appeared on the planet about four million years ago, and by 1850 numbered about one billion Ten came Hydrocarbon man. World population has since increased six-fold. After the oil price shocks of the 1970s, people asked "when will production peak?". It is not easy to answer this question because of the very poor database. Reserves and the many different hydrocarbon categories are poorly defined, reporting practices are ambiguous, revisions are not backdated....

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  1. The future of oil and hydrocarbon man 1999-03-09 · 1 h 9 min · CERN's player

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CERN
Department
Science and Society
Speaker
Colin Campbell
Year
1999
Language
English
Subjects
Physics
Source
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