Commentary: Underestimating Demand, Overestimating Supply
The world of oil has turned out very different from what the experts at EIA, IEA, CERA, BP, EXXON and others all thought.
September 5, 2006
CERA’s Rosy Oil Forecast – Pabulum to the People
CERA’s new report might be reassuring if they did not have a checkered forecasting record, and if its findings were not hedged six ways to Sunday.
August 21, 2006
Matt Simmons – Twilight In The Desert presentation
For those wanting to know about the situation in Saudi Arabia or wanting an advance look at Simmons’s book “Twilight In The Desert” or what will likely be his presentation in Edinburgh, this PDF presentation will be of key interest.
April 19, 2005
2005 oil outlook: Is this the year when demand outstrips supply?
What was the biggest oil story in 2004? I posed this question to all the Simmons & Company oil experts this year. Oil prices in 2004 were on almost everyone’s list. Even “Peak Oil” got votes – a topic that received more media attention, during 2004, by a substantial margin than ever before.
February 28, 2005
Energy: A Global Overview
A new presentation by Matthew Simmons, “Energy: A Global Overview” given at the Deloitte & Touche’s 2004 Oil & Gas Conference in Houston, Texas.
November 21, 2004
Sound Energy Governance: A New Era of Oil Transparency
Proposal by oil analyst Matthew Simmons to improve the transparency of oil field production and reserves: “Estimating future supplies and Peak Oil will be achievable based on factual data.” (Slide presentation)
November 5, 2004