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Name: Matt Simmons

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Bio: Matthew Simmons is Chairman of Simmons & Company International, a specialized energy investment banking firm. The firm has completed approximately 600 investment banking projects for its worldwide energy clients at a combined dollar value in excess of $65 billion

Articles by Matt Simmons

A Peak-Oiler, but still in the closet? IEA’s 2008 Report

A Peak-Oiler, but still in the closet? IEA’s 2008 Report

By Aage Figenschou, with Matt Simmons The groundbreaking new IEA World Energy Outlook 2008 is still a product of a somewhat schizophrenic organization.   Here and there you still have references to how abundant the resource base is (9 trillion barrels all in) and how satisfying demand is only a question of timely investments.  The oil optimists are still an important group of the IEA, but it is the new positions the organization