Название: Oil - A Beginner's Guide, 2nd editionАвтор: Vaclav Smil
Издательство: Oneworld Publications
Год: 2018
ISBN: 9781786072863; 1786072866
Серия: Beginner's Guides
Формат: epub
Страниц: 224
Размер: 29,8 mb
Язык: English
Few short periods in the history of the oil industry have been as eventful as the one that followed the publication of this guide’s first edition in 2008. The intervening developments have gone far beyond new rounds of oil price rises and collapses: there have also been notable technical advances in oil production, new economic realities affecting both major oil-producing and oil-consuming countries, and shifting perceptions of the global environmental prospects.
This new edition preserves what has remained durable durable and fundamental, and updates the contents by including all notable post-2007 developments. The latest available data were always used, which means that most of it is carried through to 2016, while some coverage ends in early 2017. The new edition also takes a closer look at some key changes affecting the oil industry and oil’s place in the modern world, above all at the recurrent peak oil claims, at the great American oil renaissance and the purported end of oil (‘leave in the ground’ sentiment) due to the necessity of accelerated decarbonization of the global energy supply required to prevent catastrophic global warming.