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IEA Chief Economist Fatih Birol

IEA Chief Economist Fatih Birol

“In the next 10 years, more than 90% of the growth in global oil production needs to come from MENA (Middle East and North Africa) countries… There are major risks if this investment doesn’t come in a timely manner.”

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Review October 17, 2011

 

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Review October 10, 2011

 

Download Full PDF 1. Oil and the Global Economy After falling to one-year lows below $75 a barrel on Tuesday, oil prices rebounded by $6 a barrel on Wednesday on optimism that the EU ministers would find a way out of the ongoing financial crisis. NY oil futures closed at $82.98 a barrel and London’s

Brad Plumer, Washington Post

 

“In the old days, Saudi Arabia had plenty of spare capacity and could always flood the market with extra oil if supplies got pinched. But that’s no longer the case. Global demand is growing too quickly, and the Saudis are running out of spare

Chris Skrebowski

 

“Unless and until adaptive responses are large and fast enough to constrain the upward trend of oil prices, the primary adaptive response will be periodic economic crashes of a magnitude that depresses oil consumption and oil prices. These have the effect of shifting consumption from incumbent consumers-the advanced economies-to the new consumers in the developing economies.” –

Review October 3, 2011

 

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Jan Lars Mueller, ASPO-USA Executive Director, in WSJ Letter to the Editor

 

“With demand for oil and all forms of energy continuing to rise exponentially, and with huge uncertainty whether fossil fuels can keep pace, business as usual isn’t an option.” WSJ Letter to the Editor

Review September 26, 2011

 

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from Daniel Yergin’s essay “There Will Be Oil”

 

“There Will Be Oil” “Things don’t stand still in the energy industry. With the passage of time, unconventional sources of oil, in all their variety, become a familiar part of the world’s petroleum supply. They help to explain why the plateau continues

Review September 19, 2011

 

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