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53 comments on Rembrandt Koppelaar's Oil Peak

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JD on September 10, 2005 - 9:52pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
What evidence makes you believe that ASPO is currently using any database? Earlier, you said ASPO was using the Petroconsultants DB, but Petroconsultants was acquired by IHS in 1996. Do you have any evidence to show that ASPO is currently purchasing information from IHS?

Even if ASPO is using a DB, there's something wrong with it. ASPO is currently predicting production of 82mbd for 2005 (see the Sept. 2005 newsletter at www.peakoil.ie), even though the DOE has production for the first six months of 2005 at 84.3mbd. The prediction is already wrong.

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Stuart Staniford on September 10, 2005 - 10:13pm Permalink | Subthread | Parent | Comments top
In Campbell's 1997 book "The Coming Oil Crisis" he details using the Petroconsultants database (along with a fulsome dedication to the PetroConsultants founder Harry Wassall). I speculate Campbell still had access as a favor, rather than paying after he was no longer with big companies. Also see Lynch's comments here, I do not know what ASPO is currently relying on - there is a rather content-free discussion here.
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