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James J. MacKenzie 《Natural Resources Research》1998,7(2):97-100
Fossil fuels are finite and nonrenewable. In due course, they will become scarce and costly. Their role in powering modern economies is so vital as to warrant a review of ultimately recoverable reserves and of plausible future consumption patterns. Over the past 50 years, many oil companies, geologists, governments, and private corporations have performed scores of studies of Estimated Ultimately Recoverable (EUR) global oil. Taken together, the great majority of these studies reflect a consensus that EUR oil reserves lie within the range of 1800 to 2200 billion barrels. Given this range, a simple model is used to calculate that world oil production is likely to peak sometime between 2007 and 2019. The global transportation sector, almost totally dependent on oil, could be especially hard hit unless vehicles fueled by sources other than petroleum are developed and rapidly deployed. 相似文献
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Predicting the Peak in World Oil Production 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
The US Department of Energy's Energy Information Administration (EIA) recently predicted that world oil production could continue to increase for more than three decades, based on the recent US Geological Survey (USGS) evaluation of world oil resources and a simple, transparent model. However, it can be shown that this model is not consistent with actual oil production records in many different regions, particularly that of the US, from which it was derived. A more careful application of the EIA model, using the same resource estimates, indicates that at best non-OPEC oil production can increase for less than two decades, and should begin to decline at the latest sometime between 2015 and 2020. OPEC at this point will completely control the world oil market and will need to meet increased demand as well as compensate for declining production of non-OPEC producers. OPEC could control the market even sooner than this, given its larger share of proven oil reserves, probable difficulties in transforming non-OPEC undiscovered reserves into proven reserves, and the converging interests of all oil producers as reserves are depleted. This has significant implications for the world economy and for US national security. 相似文献
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C.-Y. Cynthia Lin 《Natural Resources Research》2009,18(1):19-28
This paper uses annual data on world oil price and consumption from 1965 to 2006 to calibrate a Hotelling model of optimal
nonrenewable resource extraction. Numerical solutions are generated for various specifications of the elasticity of demand
for both isoelastic demand and linear demand under each of two possible market structures: perfect competition and monopoly.
Prior to the 1973 oil crisis, the model that best fits actual data is one of perfect competition with linear demand and a
demand elasticity of −0.4. For the periods 1973–1981 and 1981–1990, the model that best fits actual data is one of monopoly
with linear demand and demand elasticities of −0.8 and −0.7, respectively, suggesting that the market was strongly influenced
by OPEC during this time. Under the model that best fits the most recent period (perfect competition with linear demand and
demand elasticity −0.5), the real oil price (in 1982–1984 U.S.$) should fall in the range $60.87–$66.31/barrel over the years
2010–2030.
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俄罗斯油气资源空间分布格局及可达性评估 总被引：6，自引：4，他引：2
俄罗斯地区油气资源储量十分丰富,未探明储量的地区也有巨大的资源应用前景。随着气候变化加剧,北极通航变为可能,俄罗斯也寄希望于通过北极航道,大力发展其能源贸易。本文将俄罗斯交通网络作为连接资源和港口的重点,采用空间统计方法刻化俄罗斯油气资源空间分布特征,并通过栅格成本距离法、加权平均旅行时间和区位优势潜力等方法量化各港口对油气资源的可达性,得出结论：① 油气资源集中分布在西西伯利亚平原,俄罗斯全域的港口可达性呈“西部高,中部低”的特征;② 俄罗斯东北地区港口的资源可达性普遍较差,西北地区港口资源可达性较好。综合考虑油气资源、地理位置和项目合作等方面,可重点建设萨别塔、摩尔曼斯克和符拉迪沃斯托克（海参崴）3个港口;③ 附近交通网络的布设密集度影响港口的资源可达性。随着气候变暖,冻土融化,加上中俄“冰上丝绸之路”倡议的逐步实施,未来远东地区港口的资源可达性可能有进一步提升的空间。 相似文献
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Nyoni Bothwell Duma Sifundo Shabangu Shaka V. Hlangothi Shanganyane P. 《Natural Resources Research》2020,29(6):3943-3955
Natural Resources Research - Coal, like any other nonrenewable energy resource, will, by exploitation, deplete in the near future. In light of this, biomass is fast becoming an alternative material... 相似文献
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Reserve growth refers to the typical increases in estimated sizes of fields that occur through time as oil and gas fields
are developed and produced. Projections of the future reserve growth of known fields have become important components of hydrocarbon
resource assessments. In this paper, we present an algorithm for estimating the future reserve growth of known fields. The
algorithm, which incorporates fundamental reserve-growth assumptions used by others in the past, is programmed for a personal
computer in the form of formulas for a spreadsheet. The primary advantages of this spreadsheet program lie in its simplicity
and ease of use. We also present a library of 17 different growth functions that provides numerical models for predicting
the future sizes of existing oil and gas fields in various regions of the United States. These growth functions are formatted
for use in the spreadsheet program. 相似文献
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Reliable estimates of minimum spare capacity for world oil production can be obtained by comparing production statistics before and following the collapse of the Iraqi oil industry in March 2003. Spare production was at least 3.2 M b/d (million barrels/day), and was concentrated in the Middle East, mostly in Saudi Arabia (1.7 M b/d), but also in Kuwait and the UAE. This indicates that, assuming Iraqi production returns to its prewar level, a peak in world oil production resulting from resource constraints alone (ignoring political factors) before 2008 can be rejected. This also implies that with an invigorated Iraqi industry, and with further increases in production in the Former Soviet Union and other non-OPEC areas, there would be significant short-term downward pressure on oil prices and strains within OPEC. These transient issues do not alter the projection for a resource-constrained peak or plateau in non-OPEC production between 2010 and 2018. 相似文献
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Community Recovery Following the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill: Toward a Theory of Cultural Resilience
Hannah E. Clarke 《社会与自然资源》2017,30(2):129-144
Culture plays an important role in communities’ abilities to adapt to environmental change and crises. The emerging field of resilience thinking has made several efforts to better integrate social and cultural factors into the systems-level approach to understanding social–ecological resilience. However, attempts to integrate culture into structural models often fail to account for the agentic processes that influence recovery at the individual and community levels, overshadowing the potential for agency and variation in community response. Using empirical data on the 2010 BP oil spill’s impact on a small, natural-resource-dependent community, we propose an alternative approach emphasizing culture’s ability to operate as a resource that contributes to social, or community, resilience. We refer to this more explicit articulation of culture’s role in resilience as cultural resilience. Our findings reveal that not all cultural resources that define resilience in reference to certain disasters provided successful mitigation, adaptation, or recovery from the BP spill. 相似文献
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Efstathios E. Michaelides 《Natural Resources Research》2017,26(2):161-175
A critical examination of Hubbert’s model proves that it does not account for several factors that have significantly influenced the production of petroleum and other fossil fuels. The effect of these factors comes into the price of the fossil fuels, and the latter has a significant influence on the demand and rate of production of energy resources as well as on the long-term rate of production growth at both the regional and global levels. Based on several observations of historical production data, a simple mathematical model is constructed and presented in this paper for the lifetime of a fossil fuel resource. The recent data of global petroleum and natural gas production show that a very important period in the life of energy resources is a period when the demand of these resources increases almost linearly. The linear part of the production curve makes the entire lifetime production of the resource asymmetric. Information on the total available quantity of a resource at any time and of the average slope during this linear period yields an estimate of the timescale, T 2, when peak production is reached and depletion follows. The total available quantity of the energy resource is laden with significant uncertainty, which propagates in the estimates of the timescale of the peak production in any resource model. The time asymmetry of the current model leads to a delay of the timescale, when the onset of the resource production commences (e.g., peak oil). However, the rate of the resource production decline is significantly higher than that predicted by other models that use a symmetrical curve-fitting method. 相似文献
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Alfred J. Cavallo 《Natural Resources Research》2004,13(4):211-221
Following Hubberts successful prediction of the timing of US peak oil production, Hubberts model has been used extensively to predict peak oil production elsewhere. However, forecasts of world and regional peak oil and natural gas production using Hubberts methodology usually have failed, leading to the implicit belief that such predictions always will fail and that we need not worry about finite resources. A careful examination of Hubberts approach indicates that the most important reasons for his success in the US were stable markets, the high growth rate of demand, ready availability of low cost imports, and a reasonable estimate of easily extractable reserves. This analysis also shows that his model cannot predict ultimate oil reserves and that it should be considered an econometric model. Building on Hubberts vital insight, that cheap fossil fuel reserves are knowable and finite, one can state that for world peak oil production, political constraints should be much more important than resource constraints. 相似文献
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US Mountain West Water access and allocation institutions have a history of adapting policy and practice to increase flexibility for diverse water uses. We examine how flexible access has developed over time and space by operationalizing the historical institutional (HI) theoretical and methodological framework. We trace historical water access for oil and gas (OG) development in Colorado, working from contemporary water right data to examine historical critical events, policies, and political contexts. OG water use has iteratively shaped water governance institutions in the top OG producing regions of Colorado, Weld, and Garfield Counties. The analysis suggests that to more accurately capture institutional change and continuity in resource allocation systems, an analysis of informal institutions is an essential theoretical contribution to the HI framework. While increased flexibility makes multiple uses easier, policies favor the most economically lucrative beneficial uses and generate issues of transparency, an important consideration for the public’s resource. Future practices of flexibility are contingent on market structures and institutional access mechanisms shaped during previous government policy processes, illuminating the value of the HI framework to inform future water policy. 相似文献
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东非油气资源开发始于一战前,二战后出现第一个勘探高峰期。随着冷战结束,东非油气资源开发的力度不断加大,国际能源公司纷纷入驻。在中小型能源公司的积极开拓下,于2006年以后相继取得重大勘探成果。东非油气资源已呈现出分布广、储量大的特点,并吸引一批国际大型能源公司的投资,加快了能源产业的发展,推动了能源立法的建设。随着东非在全球能源版图中地位的凸显,地区外大国在该地区的博弈也日趋激烈。东非各国则获得发展的新机遇,并将推进地区一体化进程。然而,若东非各国不能妥善处理政府能力问题、腐败问题、经济结构问题、利益分配问题、恐怖主义问题等,将有可能陷入"资源诅咒"的陷阱中。 相似文献
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Archaeological sites are valuable nonrenewable resources and they are being destroyed rapidly by modern development projects
of all kinds, worldwide. The contextual information in these sites could tell surprising and valuable stories of human behavior
over an enormous sweep of time and might contribute to a better future. Archaeologists’ experience of site destruction and
their recent efforts to work with local communities toward alternatives to site destruction may offer examples for others
concerned with the treatment of nonrenewable resources 相似文献
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1994—2007年中国主要城市的规模产出效应实证研究:一个面板模型 总被引：1，自引：0，他引：1
建立柯布道格拉斯城市规模产出效应面板模型,对1994—2007年全国30个主要城市的规模产出效应进行了实证研究,研究表明,城市规模对产出有显著性影响,城市规模产出效应中包含显著的时间影响和地区影响。包含时间影响的变截距模型显示,城市规模产出弹性为0.128,时间影响系数由1994年的-0.652单调增加到2007年的0.615,说明城市规模产出效应、资源使用效率和城市化质量逐步提高;包含地区影响的变系数模型表明,城市规模对产出影响中存在显著的固定水平效应和增长效应,水平效应在-13.569和17.140之间,增长效应在0.438和5.0之间。研究结果同时显示,规模越大的城市通常具有更高的水平效应,但是增长效应却越低,这表明可能存在适度的最优城市规模。 相似文献
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资源型城市生命周期模型研究 总被引：5，自引：0，他引：5
在评述国内外资源型城市发展研究成果的基础上,指出资源型城市生命周期研究的意义。从资源型城市生命周期根源出发,阐述了在不可再生资源单一开发条件下建立起来的传统生命周期模型特征。通过拓展资源开发领域,将生命周期的研究范围由不可再生资源拓展到地域所有资源范畴,从而构建了资源综合开发条件下的新型生命周期模型,并与传统生命周期模型进行比较。最后,重点论述新型生命周期的阶段特征。 相似文献
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Duane Chapman 《Natural Resources Research》1993,2(4):331-339
In theoretical Hotelling-type models of resource depletion, oil use declines monotonically over time to depletion. However, world oil use has been increasing for several years. Can theory and reality be reconciled? The answer is affirmative, if theory is modified to accommodate outward-shifting demand functions that are rising in response to growth in world population and income. Under this assumption, a Hotelling depletion model projects a 50-year period of increasing world oil use before the decline to exhaustion. This holds for both competitive and monopolistic regimes. Hotelling theory has been criticized by Adelman and others, in part because of the unreality of the theoretical projections. By combining the modified Hotelling theory with U.S. Geological Survey resource estimates, the numerical projections seem congruent with Adelman's near-term expectations. Finally, a backstop technology, such as renewable biomass ethanol, introduces a new dimension. Assuming a $2-per-gallon cost for the ethanol, the modified Hotelling theory projects accelerating use of conventional oil until depletion or substitution. Consequently, it does not seem unreasonable to believe that a finite, limited resource of conventional oil is consistent with growing use for several decades. A projected exhaustion in 100 years is consisten with increasing use for 50 years. 相似文献
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Murtala Chindo 《Singapore journal of tropical geography》2015,36(1):3-22
Nigeria is in the advanced development stages of extracting its oil sands resources to boost national revenue and economic prosperity, like other countries in Sub‐Saharan Africa including the Republic of Congo and Madagascar. Compared to resource‐rich developed countries like Canada and America, the consequences of oil sands extraction is likely to be disastrous in countries like Nigeria that have a poor reputation for managing resources (as is the case with the petroleum sector). Using a mixed‐method approach—focus group discussions, interviews and observations—this paper addresses environmental concerns about oil sands extraction in Nigeria. Overall, the communities perceived oil sands development negatively, because of fears of loss of communal lands, biodiversity, water availability and quality, and pollution. They were angry with the previous administrations over the lack of communication, and were deprived of socio‐economic opportunities and pollution from prolonged delays in oil sands extraction. The way forward is to form sustainable partnerships between the government, communities, industry and other stakeholders to achieve responsible oil sands development—environmentally friendly development that meets climate obligations, addresses cumulative impacts, and acts in the best interest of host communities and Nigerians. 相似文献
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Mikael Höök Bengt Söderbergh Kristofer Jakobsson Kjell Aleklett 《Natural Resources Research》2009,18(1):39-56
The giant oil fields of the world are only a small fraction of the total number of fields, but their importance is huge. Over
50% of the world’s oil production came from giants by 2005 and more than half of the world’s ultimate reserves are found in
giants. Based on this, it is reasonable to assume that the future development of the giant oil fields will have a significant
impact on the world oil supply. In order to better understand the giant fields and their future behavior, one must first understand
their history. This study has used a comprehensive database on giant oil fields in order to determine their typical parameters,
such as the average decline rate and life-times of giants. The evolution of giant oil field behavior has been investigated
to better understand future behavior. One conclusion is that new technology and production methods have generally led to high
depletion rates and rapid decline. The historical trend points towards high decline rates of fields currently on plateau production.
The peak production generally occurs before half the ultimate reserves have been produced in giant oil fields. A strong correlation
between depletion-at-peak and average decline rate is also found, verifying that high depletion rate leads to rapid decline.
Our result also implies that depletion analysis can be used to rule out unrealistic production expectations from a known reserve,
or to connect an estimated production level to a needed reserve base. 相似文献
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A detailed understanding of the processes that led to empirical oil and gas field size distributions, especially the dynamic character of the discovery process, is needed to improve the quality of forecasts of oil and gas resources. An empirical distribution results from a complex interaction of economic, technical, and social factors with geology in the form of a distribution of deposits. These factors may cause an empirical distribution to mutate nonrandomly through time. Changes in the price of oil, the cost of exploration and development, technology, and access to prospects influence the discovery process. Failure to recognize and account for them in the modeling process can result in serious bias in estimates of the number and volume of future discoveries. In addition, the broad range of some forecasts for a given region may be explained by differences in perspective of those involved in the process. Geologists who understand the basic processes and collect the data may be scientific determinists. Statisticians who model and analyze the data are trained to think in terms of random variables and stochastic processes. 相似文献