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First of all, very nice work. I will be an avid reader.
Second, and in the spirit of proofreading, a little detail: in the charts with several yearly records, for example in the "Chart 3: U.S. Gasoline Stock Levels, source: EIA" reproduced above, the oldest record (in the example, the one for 2002) comes out on top. It would make more sense if the newest one was on top, I guess.
Rembrandt,
Please see my other response with my praise for this new publication. But I wanted to add this here as another potential improvement -
Please could there be a graph of oil production by "OPEC subject to quota" countries - ie with Iraq and Angola excluded. This is for the reason that although they are members of OPEC they are not included in its quota system. The graph should also include the official OPEC quota output. This way we can see how OPEC are performing relative to quota. This is very important, because one of the (to my mind) most worrying facts about the KSA decline was that it happened FIRST, and THEN the quota was reduced. By looking at OPECs performance we'll get to see whether the current plateau we're on is due to 1) above ground factors (can be overcome) or 2) geological factors (very worrying)
By the way, one of the things that your excellent publication actually makes very clear is that there are comfortable stocks of crude oil in the world relative to historical stock trends. On the basis of stocks alone (forgetting for the moment, declining production) one would be SHORT oil!
Regards,
Cuchulainn