By peak oil, I am referring to the peak oil supply ... Except that in the real world, production follows a wide variety of paths (which Hubbert himself originally said), which means historical ...

King Hubbert, a US geoscientist working for fossil fuel giant Shell, projected -- based on statistical modeling of known oil reserves at the time -- that global crude oil production would peak ...

A completely different case is that of crude oil in the US, where the post-peak decline is compatible with the Hubbert model. Here is a comparison of the two cases (from EIA ). The scale is ...

For those of you West Wing watchers out there you probably got as much of a kick out of last night's episode as I did. Not only was the central theme about alternative fuels and the practical ...

(This is a guest post from The Oil Drum by Jean Laherrère ... despite a sharp increase in price! The Hubbert linearisation is hopeless, being far from peak. Peru's production will peak around ...

(Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images) Turns out there’s a little nuance in the theory: Hubbert knew very well ... is inevitable talk about “peak oil.” Or peak . . . whatever.