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Former Non-Executive Chairman of SHELL: Global Oil Demand Will Outstrip Supply Within 20 Years

September 20, 2007 By jennifer

The former non-executive chairman of Shell UK has issued a stark warning about the world’s oil supply at a conference in Ireland this week. Lord Oxburgh expects that global oil demand will outstrip supply within twenty years as production hits plateau, and that the oil price could hit $150 in the long term. He accuses some in the industry of having their heads “almost in the sand” about oil depletion, and concludes “we may be sleepwalking into a problem which is actually going to be very serious and it may be too late to do anything about it by the time we are fully aware”.

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Conference details here.

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  1. Ender says

    September 21, 2007 at 7:43 am

    Must be one of these crackpot Peak Oil people that have the temerity to suggest that the world’s oil might be finite.

    No hang on – former chairman of Shell …. Maybe he knows what he is talking about.

    Hopefully ordering my electric scooter soon.

    http://www.vectrix.com.au

  2. Jim says

    September 21, 2007 at 1:06 pm

    Good to see the adolescent strategy of writing off the views of Big Oil because they’re so evil has been renounced!

    Well done Ender!

    Now we can actually discuss commissioned research on it’s merits rather than it’s origin.

  3. Ender says

    September 21, 2007 at 3:37 pm

    Jim – “Good to see the adolescent strategy of writing off the views of Big Oil because they’re so evil has been renounced!”

    You are drawing a pretty long bow here. Shell did not commission this comment by a former executive so from this, no conclusion can be drawn about commissioned ‘science’.

  4. Jim says

    September 21, 2007 at 6:02 pm

    Ah – thought there’d be an “out” somewhere…….

    Still , Ender there’s some promise of establishing those sorely missed and consistemtly applied guidelines.

    Let me get this clear – it doesn’t matter what authority the writer relies on or his/her links with an Evildoer but it does matter if the opinion is part of a paper/research which they’ve been remunerated for?

  5. Ian Mott says

    September 22, 2007 at 10:10 am

    Wrong Jim, anything goes as long as it supports the green position. These tarts have no shame.

  6. Schiller Thurkettle says

    September 22, 2007 at 10:40 am

    What’s the problem?

    When we run out of oil, we’ll burn cow poop to heat our homes and cook our food, just like the all-natural, all-organic people do in Africa.

    Ask the Soil Association. They’ll tell you it’s “sustainable!”

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