The Battle for Barrels

Peak Oil Myths and World Oil Futures

Duncan Clarke

ISBN 1846680123

ISBN 13 9781846680120

February 2007

Price £20.00

Hardback, 224 pp.

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Subject: Business

It is widely accepted that global discoveries of conventional oil have peaked and that the era of cheap oil has gone forever. This book demonstrates that the doom and gloom of the “Peak Oil” theory is mistaken.

Clarke rebuts the arguments of Peak Oil’s adherents and discusses the issues they ignore – rising crude oil prices, new or future technologies, potential improved exploration acreage and/or access to restricted world oil zones, changes in government policies, new corporate strategies, development in unconventional oils, and more.

‘The Battle for Barrels says we should take warnings of impending Armageddon with a pinch of salt. ’
— The Guardian

‘It is a "must read" antidote to the gloom and doom conclusions of oil scarcity.’
— Peter R. Odell, Professor Emeritus, International Energy Studies, Erasmus University, Rotterdam