The theory was first put forward in 1956. Geologist and Shell researcher M. King Hubbert put forward a paper predicting the beginning of the end of U.S. oil production somewhere between 1965 and 1971.

“Peak Oil Production May Already Be Here,” read one 2011 headline in Science. One 2005 paper sponsored by the U.S. government laid out a number of other failures following Hubbert: an Iranian oil ...

But Hubbert's prediction didn't quite come true. Production from easily accessible oil reserves did reach a peak in the early 21st century.

Geologist M. King Hubbert first introduced the concept in the mid-20th century. Hubbert predicted that oil production would follow a bell-shaped curve, where production would increase until it ...

Theories that oil supply will peak tend to miss the mark, OPEC's secretary general wrote. Such warnings have emerged since the 1880s, but fail to come true, Haitham Al Ghais said. "Throughout ...

Theories that oil supply will peak tend to miss the mark, OPEC's secretary general wrote. Such warnings have emerged since the 1880s, but fail to come true, Haitham Al Ghais said.

We won't see oil demand peak in our lifetime, JPMorgan's top energy strategist said. That's because there is a huge hidden demand from emerging markets.

Hubbert’s model: uses, meanings, and limits-1 It is well known that M. K. Hubbert successfully predicted the timing of peak US oil production.

Hubbert's Peak In 1956, Marion King Hubbert, a geophysicist and geologist working for Shell Oil Co., proposed a theory that all undrilled oil, whether in an individual oil field or total global ...