PUBLICATIONS

Our publications to-date, including prior ones by the ‘Oil Group’ at the University of Reading, UK, are:

2002:

  -  R. Bentley. Oil Forecasts, Past and Present, Abstract for Uppsala International Workshop on Oil Depletion 2002, May 23-24, 2002. See:

          www.isv.uu.se/iwood2002

-         R. Bentley. Global oil and gas depletion: an overview.
        Energy Policy, Vol. 30, No. 3, February 2002, pp 189-205.

2001:

  -  ODAC written submission to the UK House of Commons, Trade and Industry Committee, 1/Nov./2001.

-         ODAC oral submission to the UK House of Lords, 29/Oct./2001.
    (See pp 41-48 of House of Lords, Session 2001-02, 14^th Report, HL Paper 82, 12/Feb./2002.)

  -  ODAC written submission to the UK House of Lords, (to accompany oral submission), 29/Oct./2001.

  -  ODAC original written submission to the UK House of Lords, 1/Oct./2001;
(see pp 39-41 of HL Paper 82; includes submission by Dr. R. Mayer.)

-         ODAC written submission to the UK Cabinet Office (Performance & Innovation Unit) Energy Review, 19/Sept./2001.

2000:

-         R.W. Bentley. Were those past oil forecasts really so wrong?  
     Published by OneOffshore Ltd., part of the PetroData Group, in the industry newsletter: To-morrow's Oil, November, 2000.

-         R.W. Bentley, R.H. Booth, J.D. Burton, M.L. Coleman, B.W. Sellwood, and G.R. Whitfield.World Oil Supply: Near & Medium-Term.Report submitted to the UK DTI's Energy Advisory Panel, Sept 5th, 2000.

-         R.W. Bentley, R.H. Booth, J.D. Burton, M.L. Coleman, B.W. Sellwood, G.R. Whitfield.Perspectives on the Future of Oil. Energy Exploration and Exploitation, Vol. 18, Nos. 2 & 3, pp 147-206, Multi-Science Publishing Co. Ltd., 2000.

1999:

  -  R.W. Bentley, R.H. Booth, J.D. Burton, B.W. Sellwood, G.R. Whitfield
    The Oil Future - A Very Different View. Newsletter, Int'l. Assocn. for Energy Economics, 4th Quarter, 1999.

  -  R.W. Bentley.  The Future of Oil. Proc. The 1999 European Environment Confr., Sept. 13/14, 1999, LSE, London, pp 29-38. ERP Environment, Shipley, W. Yorks, 1999, ISBN 1 872677 27 4.

1998:

  -  R.W. Bentley.  UK Energy - The Next 5 to 10 Years. Report submitted to the UK Dept. of Trade & Industry, and circulated among UK and overseas energy analysts, Jan. 1998. (Updated in 1999 as: Oil - The Next 5 to 10 Years, and subsequently expanded in 2000 as: Perspectives on the Future of Oil.)

1997:

  -  R.W. Bentley.  Oil Shock ‘Imminent’ if Heavies are Slow or Expensive to Produce
     Energy World, June 1997, pp 20-22. The Institute of Energy, London.

1996:

  -  R.W. Bentley.  The Conventional Oil Production Peak  -  5 or 20 Years Away?
     Energy World, Dec. 1996, pp 11-12. The Institute of Energy, London.

Updated: 18/May/2002