Tous les livres et discours de Matt Simmons Matt Simmons, long time energy analyst who studied energy for 34 years, in his book “Twilight in the Desert” effectively confronts the complacent belief that there are ample oil reserves in Saudi Arabia and has created a compelling case that Saudi Arabia production will soon reach a peak, after which its production will decline and the world will be confronted with a catastrophic oil shortage. The factual basis of the book is over 200 technical papers published over the last 20 years which individually detail problems with particular wells or particular fields, but which collectively demonstrate that the entire Saudi oil system is “old and fraying” with reserves deliberately vastly overestimated.
Peak oil It has taken between 50-300 million years to form, and yet we have managed to burn roughly half de all global petrole reserves in merely 125 years or so. The world now consumes 85 million barils of petrol per day, or 40,000 gallons par second, and demand is growing exponentially.