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"Oil Watch - Global Liquid Fuel Production Trends (EIA data)"

http://www.theoildrum.com/node/9689

The decline in European production has been offset by rising production in NA and the ME.

The ave. has increased from 73 Mb/d to 73.3 Mb/d.

Meanwhile,

"Oil demand in 2013 to rise as world economy recovers, IEA says"

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012 ... e-2013-iea

to around 90.5 Mb/d.

thks OF2.
On behalf of all the dedicated doomers and peakers who spend there lives spinning in the hysteria and delirium of mass media and POisNow! panic, Here's an epitaph for the Oct 2004 to Jan 2010 oil production ( aka bumpy , aka undulating, aka bollicks ) plateau .

Sadly missed by many, but will remain forever remembered. In fact we'll do more than remember it. We'll delude ourselves for the rest of our lives, no matter if oil production sky rockets and maintains a 200Mb/d average, that we are still stuck in the 84Mb/d average of 2004. We can always sing out that oil isn't conventional any more.

R.I.P.

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Back to definitions
it is quite correct to include all production of fossil carbon , heavy tars and sands included ,
as Meemo rightly to point out , it doesn't make any technical difference for the user

the corn/ethanol stuff really should belong to another category
the energy come from the sun and its exploitation require large amount of fossil carbon
which it cannot substitute economically