Global Crude Output Likely Peaked in 2006, IEA’s Birol Says
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Global production of crude probably peaked in 2006, and increasing demand will have to be met from more-difficult-to-extract forms of oil such as tar sands, International Energy Agency Chief Economist Fatih Birol said.
“The age of cheap oil is over,” Birol said at a conference in Madrid today.