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 ...

Learn about Hubbert's Peak Theory and its implications for oil production, future energy reserves, and economic impact.

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.

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 ...

In a statement published on the OPEC website Thursday, Secretary General Haitham Al Ghais said the concept of “peak oil demand” is nowhere to be seen in the cartel’s projections for future global ...

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 ...

World oil production is about to reach a peak and go into its final decline. For years, a handful of petroleum geologists, including me, have been predicting peak oil before 2007, but in an era of ...

Global crude oil production has been unable to recover to its 2018 peak, suggesting that we may have passed the peak oil era. Oil prices are influenced by a complex interplay of factors, including ...

The father of “peak oil” theory, M. King Hubbert of Shell, predicted in 1956 that U.S. oil production would peak no later than 1971. That isn’t what happened: In October 1971, U.S. oil production was ...

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, ...