I almost choked on my whisky when I heard on the UK national television news (13/06/07), a story about peak oil and questions asked about oil reserves figures quoted in the newly published BP Statistical Review of World Energy.

The news item was referring to a story in Thursday’s Independent (14/06/07) (a national UK newspaper) by Daniel Howden titled “Scientists challenge major review of global reserves and warn that supplies will start to run out in four years’ time.” Howden refers to the work of Chris Skrebowski (Oil Depletion Analysis Centre or ODAC) and Colin Campbell (Association for Peak Oil or ASPO). Kudos to Chris and to Colin for getting this news onto the front page.

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Note that the Indepent's server has been very slow on occasions. A pdf of Howden's article may be downloaded from the TOD server here