IEA and Rapidan say oil demand may not peak by 2030, with growth possible to 2050 and a refining bottleneck ahead to spur ...

Peak oil theories have been around for decades. Marion King Hubbert accurately predicted a peak in U.S. oil production in 1956, in the first widely published peak oil theory. Since then, people have ...

The International Energy Agency once projected that oil and gas demand could level off by 2030. Now it’s backing off, sort of ...

In 1956, Marion King Hubbert, a prominent geologist for what is now Royal Dutch Shell, made a bold prediction. Based on an extensive analysis of reserves and production data, he concluded that U.S.

The energy watchdog says it’s possible global oil consumption could keep increasing through the middle of the century.

Global demand for oil and natural gas could grow until 2050, the International Energy Agency said Wednesday, departing from previous expectations of a speedy transition to cleaner fuels following ...

The International Energy Agency forecasts global oil demand to peak and plateau by the end of this decade, with China's demand peaking earlier than previously anticipated. While oil supply is expected ...

The idea of peak oil is familiar to most readers. It refers to the point at which global petroleum production reaches its maximum point and begins an irreversible decline. Turning to the United States ...

Gen Z is a generation born into a world full of anxieties—from school shootings to climate Armageddon, to a pandemic and political violence. But I’m here to give you one more thing to worry about! A ...

Wood Mackenzie estimates a giant shortfall by 2035. Peak oil and abundant oil are both extrapolations of reality. Oil prices will rise faster than the futures curve. Here's a scary thought: Wood ...

The decision to shutter "The Oil Drum", the leading website devoted to peak oil, has come to symbolize the end of an era - and sparked a furious debate about whether the theory was all along based on ...

In 2000, the phrase "peak oil" occurred just 2.5 times in every billion words published in English, according to Google's N-gram language-analysis tool, which can search an enormous corpus of books, ...