What is the future of oil?
Colin Campbell
Petroleum Geologist
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About the video: ‘What is the future of oil?’
Dr. Campbell discusses the decline of global oil and gas production and talks about the likely impacts oil depletion will have on geopolitics. He addresses some of the solutions that may help defuse the situation. Advances in energy efficiency, in particular, offer many opportunities to this effect. He then talks about renewable systems such as wind turbines and tidal power and ends by suggesting what the individual can do to help accelerate the transition to energy sustainability.
Total views: 5,092
Filmed: Tipperary Institute, Ireland. on 1 November 2002
Credits: Interviewer - Michael O'Callaghan Camera - Michael O'Callaghan Editor - Marcus Morrell
Copyright © 2002 Global Vision Consulting Ltd
About Colin Campbell
Colin Campbell is a petroleum geologist. He has worked with BP, Shell, Esso and Texaco and has been a consultant to several governments. In 1998 he and Jean Laherrère were largely responsible for convincing the International Energy Agency (IEA) that the world’s output of conventional oil would peak within a decade.
In 2000 he founded the network of scientists “The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas”.
He is the author of two books and numerous papers on oil depletion and has lectured and broadcast widely.
Dr Campbell appeared in the films The End of Suburbia (2004) and A Crude Awakening (2006).
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