The Oracle of Oil: A Maverick Geologist's Quest for a Sustainable Future

by Mason Inman

Book Overview

In 1956, geologist and Shell Oil researcher Marion King Hubbert delivered a speech that has shaped world energy debates ever since. Addressing the American Petroleum Institute, Hubbert dropped a bombshell on his audience: U.S. oil production would peak by 1970 and decline steadily thereafter. World production would follow the same fate, reaching its peak soon after the turn of the millennium. In battles stretching over decades, Hubbert defended...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393239683
• ISBN13: 9780393239683
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 432 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.2" x 9.3"