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In 1998, Colin Campbell and Jean Laherrère published an article in the Scientific American Magazine where they estimated the amount of oil that remained to be produced. Years before, Campbell got interested in the study of oil depletion around 1969, in Chicago, when he was part of a team making a world evaluation for Amoco (now part of BP). Later, as the manager of the Norwegian branch of the Italian company Fina, he had the company, and the Norwegian authorities sponsored a research project on the subject using public reserve data, which later proved to be very unreliable.
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Hall, C.A.S., RamÃrez-Pascualli, C.A. (2013). The End of Cheap Oil. In: The First Half of the Age of Oil. SpringerBriefs in Energy(). Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6064-0_6
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