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Name: Roger Blanchard

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Bio: Roger Blanchard, author of The Future of Global Oil Production: Facts, Figures, Trends And Projections, by Region talks about his book with GPM correspondent Jason Brenno. Blanchard is Assistant Professor of Chemistry at Lake Superior State University. He has a particular interest in petroleum because of its importance to industrial society.

Articles by Roger Blanchard

Mexican Oil Production Continues to Dive

Mexican Oil Production Continues to Dive

At this point in time, anyone who knows anything about Mexican oil production knows it is declining rapidly, particularly production from the supergiant Cantarell complex. In the early years of the decade 2000-2009 it seemed obvious, at least to me, that Cantarell, and Mexican, oil production would start declining around 2006.  Apparently it was not so obvious to the U.S. Dept. of Energy/Energy Info. Admin. (US DOE/EIA). 

Then and Now

Recently a friend gave me a copy of a January 22, 1973 issue of Newsweek. 

Drill Baby Drill - A Reality Check

Many Americans want to believe that the US still has unlimited oil resources within its boundaries, if only the pesky environmentalists would just get

Will Canada be Our Salvation?

There have been occasional claims from U.S. media sources that oil from Canada, specifically oil from the Athabasca oil sands region, can be the salvation

A Failure to Prepare for the What Should Have Been Expected

I occasionally read the Detroit newspapers and based upon some of their articles and commentaries it appears the present oil crisis came as a surprise

Will Alaska Rise Again?

By Roger Blanchard Alaska’s oil production commenced with developments in the Cook Inlet region of southern Alaska in the late 1950s, where production


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