Is this the peak oil era?

http://oilpeak.webs.com

Presentation for EEG’s Inter College Speaking Competition 2009

Presentation Guideline

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Life before..

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WATERWATER

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Coal

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ENERGY

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Oil Discovery

1859Edwin Drake

Industrial RevolutionIndustrial Revolution

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Development

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Converted Deserts…Converted Deserts…

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Into Cities…

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Al-Jumaira Palm Tree Island

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Burj Dubai

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Space Exploration

But Why Oil?

Oil Dependency

90%

Consumes as Fuel

Oil Form in Hundreds of Millions of Years!

www.solarnavigator.net

100Years

http://www.superstock.com/

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HUBBERT THEORY

Increasing Depletion

Peak

HUBBERT THEORY

Individual Wells

Region Curve

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Charlie Bottle - http://seekingalpha.com/article/96235-peak-oil-are-we-there-yet

But does this last?

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Pumping

29Day and Night

But does this last?

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Depleted Oil Well

Injection Well

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2. COLLAPSE PEAK THEORY

Life after oil runs out.

37Hunger and Poverty

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Diseases

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Transportation Crash

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WARS

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ENERGY WARS

3. TECHNOLOGY EXPLOSION

What the experts say?

-Jad Mouawad Journalist – New York Times

“ As oil prices rise, new extraction technologies become viable, thus

expanding the total recoverable oil reserves . ”

-Leonardo MaugeriSenior Vice President of Eni S.p.A

“The geological structure of the earth has not been explored thoroughly enough to conclude that the declining trend in discoveries.”

- Abdullah Jum'ah CEO of Saudi Aramco

“I believe that in-place conventional and non-conventional liquid resources may ultimately total between 13 trillion and 16 trillion barrels and that only a small fraction (1.1 trillion) has been extracted to date.”

4. TECHNOLOGY STABILITY

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http://www.fossilfoolsdayofaction.org

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http://www.goodplanet.org

Use Nature Forces

Go Renewablehttp://tech.c4ads.org

ZeroEmission City

http://www.bustler.net

Masdar CityMasdar City

THE ULTIMATE ANSWER

?Is this the peak oil era?

YESNO

Doesn’t matter!

“ No matter what else happens, this is the century in

which we must learn to live without fossil fuels. ”

- David GoodsteinWriter of “Out of Gas”