the possibility of world oil production peaks before 2030, or at least rapidly before 2020

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BUSINESS INFORMATION -A recent report from the UK Energy Research Center (UKERC) mentions, the possibility of world oil production peaks before 2030, or at least rapidly before 2020.

The report was considered, the British are not the only parties who are not prepared for that period, while a third oil supply world energy needs.

The expert report states that human beings are entering an era of oil production is slow and expensive because of oil energy sources more and more difficult to find, extracted and produced.

The discovery of oil fields just like in the Gulf of Mexico which recently announced, will only slow down the peak (the energy shortages of oil) in a matter of days or weeks.

While efforts to maintain the level of global oil production at current levels, every three years, will require new sources of oil energy equivalent to that belongs to Saudi Arabia today.

According to the study, the delayed peak of conventional oil production until after the year 2030 is the most optimistic estimates, as well as the worst.

While dependence on a very big world on earth and miyak considering the time needed to develop alternative energy takes a long time, then the year 2030 was not too long.

"The concern is the rising oil prices will encourage increased rapidly developing alternative energy instead of intensifying (release) of carbon so that efforts to prevent climate change becomes more difficult or malignant could not be done," said lead researcher publishing scientific reports is also a senior researcher UKERC, Steve Sorrell.

This report supports the optimism of the world is still big on the world's oil resources, but more locations are in places that are relatively difficult to exploit that oil production slows and more expensive.

The report also highlighted, accelerating decline in oil production fields that now exist, up to about two-thirds of sekaranbg production capacity, must be done before the year 2030 in order to prevent the collapse of oil production levels.

Sorrell said, it is impossible to measure exactly when peak oil production occurs, because the data is less convincing and a lot of factors to get to that conclusion.

"But we can say that the window (oil exploration) was narrowed very quickly. The impact of world oil reserves decline will depend on the government response and the scale of investment in new energy technologies," said Sorrell.

UKERC report is the first study to be done through an independent study, in-depth and systematic about the evidence and reasons that could describe about the world oil production peaks.

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