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	Oil has peaked \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
		For 15 years, retired geologist Colin Campbell has warned of the approaching end of the age of oil and the dire consequences for the world should that happen.
		In short, if Campbell is right, our grandchildren and their children will live in a far different world than ours, and, unless new sources of energy are found, it would appear to be a not very attractive world.
		Campbell believes "the world will be able to pump out about that much more." Given the rising rate of consumption, particularly in China and elsewhere in Asia, that's hardly encouraging.
	www.energybulletin.net /2259.html (853 words)

	FTW Exclusive Interview: Colin Campbell on Oil
		Campbell: Only a fraction of the oil in the reservoir is recoverable because it does not sit in one big cavern down there but in the very small pore spaces between the grains of sand.
		Campbell: Oil sometimes does occur in fractured or weathered crystalline rocks, which may have led people to accept this theory, but in all cases there is an easy explanation of lateral migration from normal sources.
		Campbell: Of course there is a range of alternatives from wind, sun, tide, nuclear, etc. but today they contribute only a very small percentage, and do not come close to matching the oil of the past in terms of cost or convenience.
	www.fromthewilderness.com /free/ww3/102302_campbell.html (2496 words)

	The Hindu : Opinion / News Analysis : When oil wells run dry
		Campbell's, and Aspo's, work is the lack of transparency in the world's oil data.
		Campbell drew attention to the way in which members of the Organisation of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) "revised" their reserve figures in the 1980s, and said that it is incredible that this "flawed data" is still being used today.
		Campbell asserts that OPEC members, and others such as Russia, are stating the total amount ever found, not the amount left for us to use.
	www.hindu.com /2005/05/26/stories/2005052605681100.htm (602 words)

	CommUnity of Minds : Working Together
		Campbell goes on, “The Second Half of the Age of Oil will be characterised by a decline in the supply of oil, and all that depends upon it.
		As far as retired oil geologists go, Colin Campbell is an important man. After decades spent working for majors in the oil industry, in the 1990s he became a main contributor to the PetroConsultants database of world oil and gas reserves.
		Colin Campbell, in his gentle and genial way, stresses that this isn't necessarily a doomsday scenario, but even he takes for granted that the world's population will likely drop dramatically.
	solutions.synearth.net /2005/09/28 (1431 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Does the Earth re-fuel itself?
		Oil geologist Colin Campbell is one of the foremost proponents of the "peak oil" theory that says roughly half of all known reserves have been consumed, and new discoveries are insufficient to meet the planet's future needs.
		Campbell posits a bleak future where oil shortages lead to "war, starvation, economic recession, possibly even the extinction of homo sapiens".
		According to Campbell, the size of oil reserves is virtually a state secret in many countries, and some oil producers previously inflated their reserves to wring higher production quotas from OPEC, which are based partly on reported reserves.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/features/fex52182.htm (974 words)

	The end of oil is closer than you think \| Life \| Guardian Unlimited
		They called Colin Campbell, who helped to found the London-based Oil Depletion Analysis Centre because he is an industry man through and through, has no financial agenda and has spent most of a lifetime on the front line of oil exploration on three continents.
		According to Campbell and other oil industry sources, the two most widely used estimates of world oil reserves, drawn up by the Oil and Gas Journal and the BP Statistical Review, both rely on reserve estimates provided to them by governments and industry and do not question their accuracy.
		In the absence of reliable official figures, geologists and analysts are turning to the grandfather of oil depletion analysis, M King Hubbert, a Shell geologist who in 1956 showed mathematically that exploitation of any oilfield follows a predictable "bell curve" trend, which is slow to take off, rises steeply, flattens and then descends again steeply.
	www.guardian.co.uk /life/feature/story/0,13026,1464050,00.html (2301 words)

	BBC NEWS \| Programmes \| The Money Programme \| Archive \| The Last Oil Shock
		Geologist Dr. Colin Campbell warned, "The recent disturbances in Britain are like the tremors that precede an earthquake.
		Campbell dismissed gas as a viable alternative long term on the grounds that gas field discovery and production follow the same pattern as oil -- and gas supplies will decline not long after oil.
		Colin Campbell might be expected to condemn the fuel protestors for demanding cheaper prices and thus hastening the depletion of reserves.
	news.bbc.co.uk /1/hi/programmes/the_money_programme/archive/1602335.stm (1365 words)

	Science News
		Campbell and his colleague at Petroconsultants Jean H. Laherrère reached their conclusion by estimating the remaining underground reserves of so-called conventional petroleum—oil that is relatively easy to extract.
		Going country by country, Campbell and Laherrère started with published tallies of oil deposits and made adjustments in cases where industry data indicates that nations had inflated their figures.
		Campbell, C.J. The decline of hydrocarbon man — the growing importance of renewables, using less, new life styles.
	www.phschool.com /science/science_news/articles/geologists_oil_crisis.html (732 words)

	t r u t h o u t - William Rivers Pitt: The Prophecy of Oil
		The oil industry, predictably, considers Campbell to be a doomsaying loony, an espouser of flat-earth economics who totally discounts both the vast amounts of oil yet to be drilled, and the ability of technology to find more.
		Campbell himself has not helped his credibility; the expected date of imminent catastrophe quoted by the doctor has been pushed back with regularity since 1990 as each non-disastrous year passes with the industry still intact.
		PFC was hesitant at first to hang its hat on Dr. Campbell, but came to the conclusion that the decline in global oil discoveries has become so dramatic that it cannot be ignored, and that this decline calls into question whether technology can save the industry before the clock winds down to zero.
	www.truthout.org /docs_2005/030705Z.shtml (1815 words)

	Colin Campbell — Infoplease.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		Campbell, Colin, Baron Clyde - Campbell, Colin, Baron Clyde, 1792–1863, British general.
		From Bishop Colin Campbell re Synod of Bishops.
		Campbell then and now: (1) the case of the politically incorrect poet.
	www.infoplease.com /ce6/people/A0810060.html (316 words)

	Colin Campbell (geologist) - dKosopedia
		Doctor Colin J. Campbell (born 1931) is a retired petroleum geologist who co-wrote The Coming Oil Crisis with Jean H. Laherrère in 1998, which predicted that oil production would peak by 2010.
		According to Campbell, there are no new potential oil fields sufficiently large to reduce this future energy crisis.
		He also criticizes the reported oil reserves of many OPEC countries, claiming that they are inflated either to increase their quotas, or improve their chance of getting a loan from the World Bank.
	www.dkosopedia.com /wiki/Colin_Campbell_(geologist) (338 words)

	A geologist is a contributor to the science science of geology...
		A "geologist" is a contributor to the science science of geology geology.
		Geologists study the physical structure and processes of the Earth Earth.
		Their undergraduate training typically includes significant coursework in chemistry chemistry, physics physics, mathematics mathematics and possibly biology biology, in addition to classes offered through the geology department; volcanology volcanology, hydrology hydrology, and rock rock and mineral mineral formation are among the many areas of study.
	biodatabase.de /geologist (282 words)

	When the wells run dry \| EnergyBulletin.net \| Peak Oil News Clearinghouse
		Making the meeting's keynote speech, Campbell talked about the "dawn of the end of the age of oil" and the "end of economics".
		Underpinning all of Campbell's, and Aspo's, work is the lack of transparency in the world's oil data.
		Campbell showed how, two years later, the other countries in Opec, outflanked by Kuwait's sudden action, followed suit.
	www.energybulletin.net /6336.html (1061 words)

	Jean Laherrere -oil peak - oil crisis 2004 - Colin Campbell - The end of cheap oil - oil production peak
		Jean Laherrère, like Campbell, is a petroleum geologist, and together they wrote an influential article in the March 1998 Scientific American magazine titled "The End of Cheap Oil." They believe world oil production will soon peak, ending an era of economic expansion fueled by ever-increasing supplies.
		In their Scientific American article, Campbell and Laherrère argued that world oil production could be expected to follow the Hubbert curve.
		Campbell expects the peak of world oil production to arrive as early as next year.
	www.ecolo.org /documents/documents_in_english/oil_peak_laherrere-04.htm (840 words)

	ASPO - The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas
		Colin J. Campbell has more than 40 years' experience in the oil industry.
		In retirement, Campbell serves as consultant to governments and major oil companies and is a trustee of the Oil Depletion Analysis Center, London.
		Campbell is a member of the American Association of Petroleum Geologists; the Geological Society, London; and the Institute of Petroleum, London.
	www.peakoil.net /CC4April2005OilGas.html (1446 words)

	Specialists Warn Days of Cheap Oil Numbered
		Colin Campbell, a retired geologist who helped organize the two-day conference, said governments are too caught up in short-term issues to focus on the long-term threat of depleted oil reserves.
		Campbell insisted the true figure for reserves is closer to 2 trillion barrels, due partly to what he described as overstated reserves reported by Saudi Arabia and other OPEC nations.
		As a result, Campbell forecast that oil output would peak by 2010 — at least 26 years sooner than the rollover point predicted in a U.S. government study prepared in 2000.
	www.commondreams.org /headlines02/0525-04.htm (706 words)

	Estimated Ultimately Recoverable (EUR) oil
		For many years geologists and oil companies have published estimates of the total amount of crude oil that will ultimately be recovered from the earth over all time.
		According to petroleum-geologist Campbell, "large tracts could now be confidently written off as non-prospective" if they failed to meet the now understood and essential criteria for successful oil discovery.[11] Petroleum consultant L.F. Ivanhoe argues that world petroleum exploration is now mature.
		If the geologists cited here are correct and most of the major oil fields containing most of the oil have already been found, then increased exploration will, at best, identify only the few remaining major fields and a larger number of smaller ones.
	pubs.wri.org /pubs_content_text.cfm?ContentID=380 (1802 words)

	Rebel Graphics :: antiwarposters
		Petroleum Geologist Colin Campbell predicted the war against Iraq years before it happened.
		Peak Oil describes the phenomenon that oil is a limited commodity, and that at some point any given oil resource will reach a peak, and then decline.
		Campbell points out that oil has peaked everywhere except in the Middle East.
	www.rebelgraphics.org /antiwarposters.html (292 words)

	Big Picture \| Colin Campbell
		Dr Campbell appeared in the film "The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream" (2004).
		Dr. Campbell discusses the decline of global oil and gas production and talks about the likely impacts oil depletion will have on geopolitics.
		Campbell deftly penetrates the maze of conflicting information and disinformation, as well as imprecise and confusing definitions, noting that there are colossal vested interests with motives to distort and confuse: oil is money and money is power.
	bigpicture.tv /index.php?id=28&cat=&a=49 (381 words)

	Amazon.com: Oil Crisis: Books: C. J. Campbell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-08-11)
		Having said that Mr Campbell does indulge in conspiracy theory as to the origins of the 1st and 2nd Iraq wars, and the fall of the soviet union, although to be fair he himself admited that the truth may never be known and makes clear his own opinions.
		Campbell's admission up front that he would "digress frequently into political and other matters outside of [his] own professional expertise." To be blunt, in my professional opinion, much of this book is based on matters over which Mr.
		Campbell clearly carries a grudge against the US and makes various jabs at the country that are unnecessary to make his point.
	www.amazon.com /Oil-Crisis-C-J-Campbell/dp/0906522390 (1779 words)

	Alexander's Gas & Oil Connections - Is the world about to run out of oil?
		Leading lights of this movement, including Colin Campbell, a geologist and author of "The coming oil crisis", presented technical data that supported their grim prognosis.
		King Hubbert, a Shell geologist of legendary status among depletion experts, forecast in 1956 that oil production in the United States would peak in the early 1970s and then slowly decline, in something resembling a bell-shaped curve.
		Dr Campbell used to argue that the peak should have come already; he now thinks it is just round the corner.
	www.gasandoil.com /goc/features/fex14931.htm (1041 words)

	MICAS Home Page
		The keynote presentation was given by Don Campbell of DCASolar in Northfield, MA.
		Campbell made a convincing case that we are near the peak now.
		This view is shared by the likes of Matt Simmons, a longtime petroleum investment banker and former energy advisor to President Bush, oil geologist Colin Campbell, Ken Deffeyes, a lifelong oil geologist and Professor Emeritus at Princeton, and an increasing chorus of others, including voices from the OPEC nations and even US oil companies.
	worldonenetwork.info /MICAS/index.html (230 words)

	ASPO-5 Live: ASPO-5 Day 1: Colin Campbell and the Second Half of the Age of Oil
		Colin kicked off the conference this morning under the main tent in the balmy seaside park of San Rossore, painting the big picture of The Oil Age.
		But that’s old school thinking, he says, and a new wave of economists is on the rise that is beginning to recognize –- and factor into their models -- the natural limits of the earth's resources.
		As an example he showed a picture, circa 1954, of a smiling man working toting peat in a wheelbarrow in the 1950s, and compared this simple mode of work with the typical airport worker that he sees so often today: the x-ray screeners, for example, simultaneously bored and stressed.
	oilposter.org /blog/2006/07/aspo-5-day-1-colin-campbell-and-second.html (651 words)

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		Next to Marion King Hubert, Colin Campbell is probably the most influential figure in the Peak Oil Debate.
		Colin John Campbell (born 1931) joined the oil industry as an exploration geologist after being awarded a Ph.D at Oxford in 1957, Dr Campbell joined the oil industry as an exploration geologist.
		Founded by Colin Campbell, ASPO seeks to educate the world on a dramatic transition in society.
	www.seedwiki.com /wiki/peak_oil/key_entities.cfm?wpid=159396 (755 words)

	Asia Times Online Community and News Discussion - OIL: "The Beggining of The End" - Colin Campbell
		CAMPBELL: "The oil companies publish that the total oil reserves of petrol in the world today adds up to 1.15 trillion barrels of oil.
		British Geologist Campbell did not mention that the UK reserve was merely 5 billion barrels and the US reserve about 30 billion.
		Campbell ignores the fact that Venezuela has a reserve of 300 billion barrels today (2005), which is about a dozen times the figures which are being used by Campbell!
	forum.atimes.com /topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3971 (796 words)

	Colin J. Campbell • Hubbert Peak of Oil Production
		The Heart of the Matter, by Colin Campbell, The Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas.
		"This paper was prepared by Dr Colin Campbell and represents his personal views on the oil industry and the future of oil.
		Forecasts about the abundance of oil are usually warped by inconsistent definitions of "reserves." In truth, every year for the past two decades the industry has pumped more oil than it has discovered, and production will soon be unable to keep up with rising demand.
	www.hubbertpeak.com /campbell (1559 words)

	Colin Campbell \| Post Carbon Institute
		Colin J. Campbell is the founder of the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas (ASPO).
		He is now a Trustee of the Oil Depletion Analysis Centre ("ODAC"), a charitable organisation in London that is dedicated to researching the date and impact of the peak and decline of world oil production due to resource constraints, and raising awareness of the serious consequences.
		"Colin Campbell is both an academic and a businessman.
	www.postcarbon.org /thinktank/fellows/campbell (399 words)

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