The Battle For Barrels
Peak Oil Myths and World Oil Futures
Published on 1. February 2007
Book
Hardback
260 pages
978-1-84668-012-0 (ISBN)
Description
It is widely accepted that global discoveries of conventional oil have peaked and that the era of cheap oil has gone forever. This book demonstrates that the doom and gloom of the "Peak Oil" theory is mistaken. Clarke rebuts the arguments of Peak Oil's adherents and discusses the issues they ignore - rising crude oil prices, new or future technologies, potential improved exploration acreage and/or access to restricted world oil zones, changes in government policies, new corporate strategies, development in unconventional oils, and more.
Reviews / Votes
It is a "must read" antidote to the gloom and doom conclusions of oil scarcity. -- Peter R. Odell, Professor Emeritus, International Energy Studies, Erasmus University * Rotterdam * The Battle for Barrels says we should take warnings of impending Armageddon with a pinch of salt. * The Guardian * ...a successful demolition of the theories behind the peak-oil movement. * The Petroleum Economist * Duncan Clarke offers a smart and insightful survey of one of the most intriguing issues of our times - Is the world running out of oil ? - explaining why doomsayers are wrong. He diagnoses the psychological mindset, the historical mistakes, and the current complexities concerning the evaluation of how much oil lies beneath, and shows a positive view of our energy future. -- Leonardo Maugeri, Senior Vice President * Eni SpA * Peak Oil has caught global attention because the media love catastrophic news. Duncan Clarke, who has had close contact with top oil industry leaders and its best experts over three decades, has demystified this dogma and shown the crude realities. -- Andre Coajou, Former Senior Executive * Elf Aquitaine *More details
Edition
Main
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Trade binding
Dimensions
Height: 222 mm
Width: 144 mm
Thickness: 27 mm
Weight
433 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-84668-012-0 (9781846680120)
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Person
Duncan Clarke was founder and Chairman of the Board, Global Pacific & Partners, a worldwide private advisory firm with vintage of around 40 years, the story told in Three Decades in the Long Grass, 2014. Born in Salisbury, 1948, and raised in Rhodesia, he gained the PhD (Economics) at University of St Andrews, 1975. He has published extensively on Africa and been advisor to governments and companies worldwide, and focused on geo-economics, Africa and world oil, historiography, and corporate strategy for the global upstream industry. The most recent books, published by Royal Sable Publishing, founded by the author in 2019, have been The Quiet Rhodesian: Silent Servant, 1909-1981, published in 2023, and Accidental Author: Fifty Years Writing, Africa and the World, in 2023, The Last Rhodesians: Society Adrift, in 2022, and Rhodes' Ghost: The Conquest of Zambesia, in 2020. Another book, Cecil Rhodes' Library, will be released in early 2024, and Zambesia: The Literary Safari, in late 2024. Details on fifty years-plus of writing, travel and related endeavours are found on duncan-clarke.com.