دانلود کتاب اقتصاد نفت – مقدماتی شامل زمین شناسی، انرژی، اقتصاد، سیاست

The Economics of Oil – A Primer Including Geology, Energy, Economics, Politics

نویسنده: S.W. Carmalt

سال انتشار: 2017

تعداد صفحات: 121

زبان فایل: انگلیسی

فرمت فایل: pdf

حجم فایل: 2MB

درباره کتاب

This book examines the ways that oil economics will impact the rapidly changing global economy, and the oil industry itself, over the coming decades. The predictions of peak oil were both right and wrong. Oil production has been constrained in relation to demand for the past decade, with a resulting four-fold increase in the oil price slowing the entire global economy. High oil prices have encouraged a small increase in oil production, and mostly from the short-lived “fracking revolution,” but enough to be able to claim that “peak oil” was a false prophecy.

The high oil price has also engendered massive exploration investments, but remaining hydrocarbon stocks generally offer poor returns in energy (the energy return on investment or EROI) and financial terms, and no longer replace the reserves being produced. As a result, the economically powerful oil companies are under great pressure, both financially and politically, as oil remains the backbone of the global economy.

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