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It is ahuge huge huge field... enough to make the slide after peak oil a little bit more easy sicne it is adding one field to the big ones...or at least this is the conclusion I get from looking at the numbers they give...

now...

are the numbers real? Will we really ahve a cusion from 2015 to 2025 to compensate for the expected declines?

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Tue Apr 15th, 2008 at 02:57:12 PM EST
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The numbers are a wild extrapolation. And always bear in mind that total reserve size doesn't say anything about the rate of extraction: just as with oil sands.

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by DoDo on Tue Apr 15th, 2008 at 03:12:22 PM EST
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Well I sort of discount those caveats... my point is if the order of magnitude of thenumbers is correct. I am not sure if theya re right or not... if they are is a very signficant discovery... if not... well propaganda.

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I therefore claim to show, not how men think in myths, but how myths operate in men's minds without their being aware of the fact. Levi-Strauss, Claude

by kcurie on Tue Apr 15th, 2008 at 05:02:59 PM EST
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I was searching for my source on "wild extrapolation", but Jérôme just linked to it downthread.

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by DoDo on Tue Apr 15th, 2008 at 05:20:06 PM EST
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