Talk:Predicting the timing of peak oil

message: For a current topic (i.e. predicted to have just passed or be within the next 8 years), this article is badly out of date with most date about 5 years old, (pre dating the global recession) and has almost no recent data. Not my area of expertise, but does this warrant flagging the article as being out of date? Tsh (talk) 20:09, 8 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: Including failed past predictions highlights the difficulty of predicting peaks, and so deserve a place in this article. Perhaps failed predictions should have their own section.  Plazak (talk) 17:40, 14 June 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Page needs Update

message: This is the first sentence:
M. King Hubbert, who devised the peak theory, correctly predicted in 1956 that oil production would peak in the United States between 1965 and 1970.
Yet, the first subhead is titled:  "Peak oil production—has it happened already?"  This, to me, is contradictory.  If it happened in the late 1960s, how could it have possibly happened in December, 2005?  Later in the article, the IEA says it happened in 2006.  A later listing of countries show that the only nation that peaked before the 1970s was Japan, with most not peaking until the 1980s or later.
With all these contradictions, how can Hubbert's prediction be "correct"?  Leobold1 (talk) 20:00, 5 June 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I missed "United States".  Thank you.  You may now return to your scheduled arguement.  Leobold1 (talk) 04:33, 6 June 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Correctly? 

message: Back in 2005 David Strahan http://www.lastoilshock.com/map.html   listed 2005 Algerian production as 2.01 for 2005 and predicted peak in 2009 at 2.09 Does anyone have figures for 2008, 2009 and (when early 2011 is here) also for 2010? Did it (seem to) peak? What year, what level? And besides answering here, could someone with the info add it, and a listing for Algeria, under the list of countries in the "peak oil for individual nations" section? thanks. --Harel (talk) 04:05, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Algeria ..request for info and to add it to Individual Nations section? 

message: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_oil_production currently lists it as 3.22mbd. The graphic at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Canadian_Oil_Production_1960_to_2020.png which this article (predicting the timing of peak oil) includes near the very end, needs updating..just some color change is all that's needed to update "historical" versus "forecast" since the 2010 level is very close to what the forecast had been, in this case ..the graphic's red "historical" part ends around 2004 as it stands, and should be moved to 2010 or 2009 (assuming 3.22mbd listed on other Wikipedia page is correct) --Harel (talk) 04:10, 19 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Canadian Production

message: Is this graph onshore conventional oil production for the lower 48 states?  If so, the caption should be edited.  I'll be happy to do it just verify for me here.Phmoreno (talk) 02:41, 17 June 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Caption on graph 

message: As far as I can see, the top chart is sourced appropriately.  The lower chart appears to have been calculated using a home-made calculation which takes the cost of oil field exploration and development, divides by the cost per barrel of oil, and subtracts the result from the oil production figure to give an 'adjusted net' figure of oil production.  This really will not do.  If the oil exploration specialists successfully negotiate a big increase in pay one year, the 'adjusted net' figure will go down as the cost of oilfield exploration will go up.  No- more pay for someone does not mean a lower net oil production figure.
If I've misunderstood the calculation, somebody please correct me, but if not, this figure is clearly inappropriate.
Gravuritas (talk) 12:44, 13 October 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Figure: adjusted net oil production considering investments 

message: The list with the same name in the article is listed alphabetically. I'm wondering, however, if it might not be better to organise it chronologically by year of peak oil production (perhaps even with the year listed first, then the country), to make the list easier to parse. What do others think about this? DeemDeem52 (talk) 21:13, 15 December 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Peak oil for individual nations