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Peeking at Peak Oil; About the Author, Illustrator, and Translator; Prologue; Acknowledgments; Contents; Abbreviations; Chapter 1: Introduction; References; Chapter 2: Peak Oil; Peak Oil and Energy Demand; What Is Reported as Oil?; References; Chapter 3: A World Addicted to Oil; References; Chapter...

Chapter 6: The Oil Industry's VocabularyOil Originally in Place (OOIP); Recovery Factor: The Amount of the OOIP that Can Be Produced; Proven and Possible Reserves; Reserves Growth; The Abbreviations URR and RRR; References; Chapter 7: The Art of Producing (Extracting) Oil; Build-It-Yourself Models o...

"The Elephants Retire": Production Decline in the Giant OilfieldsThe Elephants' Production Rate: Depletion of Remaining Recoverable Resources (DRRR); References; Chapter 10: Unconventional Oil, NGL, and the Mitigation Wedge; Unconventional Oil; Canada's Oil Sands; Open-Pit Mining of Oil Sands; In Si...

Oil from Natural Gas by GTL (Gas-to-Liquids)Additives as a Form of Unconventional Oil; NGL, Natural Gas Liquids; Final Comment; References; Chapter 11: Peak of the Oil Age; The Peak and Decline of World Oil and Gas Production; International Transport Forum; The Round Table Meeting in Paris; Internat...

Chapter 12: Oil from Deep Water: The Tail End of ExtractionDeep, Deeper, Deepest: Oil Production in Deep Water; Production on the Outer Edge; Deep Water Production from the Gulf of Mexico; Deep Water Production in Brazil; Deep Water Production off the West Coast of Africa; The Tale of Jack; Have We...

The Ten Giant "Elephants"