This film looks at the problems posed by dwindling global oil supplies What are oil companies doing as oil becomes harder to find? Features Colin Campbell. by Emmanuel Amara
I have a Organic Chemistry book from 1973 and in that book there was an idea to convert biomass into oil by using CO gas and heating it to 380 C under pressure of 1200PSI you could make 3 barrels of light crude per tonne of biomass . At the time it was expensive to do but the idea will come back .
There are a few processes to convert solids and gases into liquid fuel. Coal and biomass can by hydrogenated in the presence of a copper, nickel, or tin oleate catalyst called the Bergius Process. The Fischer-Tropsch process can convert synthesis gas (carbon monoxide and hydrogen) from gasified coal, biomass, trash, sewage sludge, etc. into synthetic crude oil, including lube oil, distillate oil like diesel, poor quality gasoline, and wax that can be cracked into good quality gasoline blending agent. This process uses nickel, iron, or cobalt catalysts. There is an additional more recent process called the Shell Methanol-to-Gasoline process that converted synthesis gas to gasoline with greater efficiency, by converting it first to methanol, then to dimethyl ether, then to gasoline, I believe using zeolite catalysts.
@@gregorymalchuk272 I already know the German processes and after the war with Russia comes to conclusions Ukraine will invest a lot money into the Coal to liquids technology and not to rely on Russia for anything. There's plenty of hydrocarbons in Ukraine for oil 829 million tonnes, for natural gas 2.4 billion tonnes and coal 60 billion tonnes so basically enough for years to come . One promising invention is the Onipko rotor generator using low speed of wind utilizing wind speeds of 2.5 mps which common all over Ukraine.
They flare off petrochemicals that can easily refined onboard, compressed, cooled, cracked, isomerize, and sold as DME, Hydrogen, Propane, Butane, Natural Gas, Wax, Lubricants, Petrochemical Feedstock or similar downstream input chemicals for further on-land processing, into tanker ships and shipper to markets where the cost of such justifies the transport, like Norway where gasoline very expensive or Japan where natural gas and propane are expensive
Personal fusion reactors will bring my Ultra-Flexinol super-substance into universal use. Moldable, edible and delicious, a perfect fuel for PFRs and generally exactly what we need. 16 billion super-sexy humopoopers dressed in UF glitter fashion coming up.
_Oil had the ability to be made into so many different things, but we just burn it._ We make everything from medicine to makeup and asphalt to plastic from oil.
We are clueless about how things are going to be different in a post petroleum economy. People are going to continue to try and live the life they're accustomed to, without ever realizing that's the problem to begin with
The guy at 25:00 wants everybody else to tell how much oil they have, yet they don't mention western reserves, captured fields and prospects. Curious inversion of roles here. He's playing the game of oil companies, by being harbringer of doom.
If oil never loses its lubricating properties, but needs to be "cleaned" to be used again (and the "clever" people" says the quality is 100% the same...) then what happens to the majority of the BILLONS of USED liters of oil? - The used and recycled oil should have been (by now) made up the majority, or a major quantity of the required quantity?
Some industrial hydraulic oils genuinely are recycled by additive package top-off. Engine oils get so contaminated from combustion byproducts and wear metals that they basically have to be fed into the input of a refinery to be re-refined.
Back in the mid 70s my father worked in an associated industry that supplied the oil exploration industry. He visited his customers in Aberdeen on a regular basis and met all sorts of people working in oil. On one occasion he had dinner with a group of people, including major US oil execs and had a long conversation with one guy over drinks. They got to discussing how long oil would last and this guy said, you and I and your children and their children need not worry, their are known oil reserves for at least 100 years, and new fields are being explored that could see another 50 years as well. I don't know any other details on that guy and my father is no longer with us so I can't ask him, so whether it is fact or if he was spouting bull we'll never know, interesting though.
Such long reserves probably are in the Middle East, there are plenty of reserves in the North Sea too but the economic values of the smaller reserves makes them unviable. Alwyn still runs to this day but new tech has kept it going this long (large subsea tieback systems in particular)
Oil has never been cheaper in real terms (such as barrels per ounce of gold) than it is right now. Of course conventional exploration peaked in the 60s. That’s when the first massive advance in seismic mapping occurred. They quickly found all the super giant onshore fields because they were easy to find. Now every year operators drill less dry holes, but they find smaller sizes of resources due to all the big geologic features of conventional onshore exploration are already found. You can all start worrying when Finding and Discovery Costs (F&D in the 10Ks) return to the same levels in ounces of gold as they were in the 1980s. That would be a major reversal in real terms of developing new resources.
The problem with any reporting on fossil fuels is the subject is divided so inflexibly by two camps who each have their future tied up in their claims. Unless you’re a zealot believe either side at your peril.
34:10 The clarity of price is touted. But a large part of the cost is hidden. It is not included in price. We don't account for externalities. We could create a semblance of honest prices if we took random polls to find what rate of fossil fuel extraction would be called acceptable by most people, then sold extraction permits that correspond to that overall rate. The right of the people to define limits to impacts would be respected in practice. The policy will be fair if proceeds from permit sales were shared equally to all people. (End poverty. Promote sustainability)
South Gawar in Saudi suffered during early drop in production but Saudi invested heavily the in only oil and control extraction technology (pumping salt water inside the field to increase pressure) which restore the daily production. At the same time Saudi developed the gigantic field in the empty quarter. The field is massive and is believed to extend across the boarder inside UAE and Oman. In Kuwait Chevron completed a steam injection system on Al wafra oil field which dropped in 1990s to less than 10,000 bpd. Now the production is ramping to half million bpd. The success is encouraging Kuwait to install steam injection on Burgan north to restore production levels. Beside that new discoveries in North Kuwait is very sizable of high quality sweet crude. Then we come to the what is believed the biggest field in the world: Rumalah in Iraq. I heard it from BP engineer, they have evidents that this field extend from north east Syria all the way to west of Iraq and Jordan until it reach to the current developed reserves in Iraq. This explain why US insist on holding to Al Omer fields in Syria and continue fight war against ISIS who is now a small group of fighters roaming desert and posses no strategic threat. The depleting oil is a myth as there are many areas in Africa yet to be explored, fields to be developed in Yemen and east Mediterranean.
The petrochemical industry had zero sympathy for the environment and historically even less for the consumer at the petrol pump. They’ve always found an excuse to raise the prices, and they’ll continue to punish anyone in their way as they see profit in alternative fuels. Even with age of this documentary they’ve worked ensure the maximum yield by influencing politicians to slow walk the switch to alternative energy.
14:20 adding hydrogen gas to natural gas or fully replacing it with hydrogen, because it can be made from sea water at depth so its already highly pressurized into a oxygen and hydro line. 150 meters of sea water depth makes 200-300psi, 4000m is 5k to 7ksi. doesn't use energy to push it down the line other then the erosion of the carbon electrodes suspended inside of a glass matt material that only hydrogen and oxygen can boil out of. car batteries have that same matt material in them, its the only thing that makes a lead acid battery reliably rechargeable.
Peak oil of conventional oil occurred in 2008 and generated the financial crisis of 2008. People saw the problem but nothing was done. Since 2008, oil world consumption is ensured by tight oil and oil sands.
If the uk runs out of oil be there own fault. With a huge off shore deposit some should of been saved in a strategic reserve to cover for a rainy day but nothing done except immediate profits.
Los paises productores de petroleo juegan con las economias mundiales extrangulandolas ,apretando y aflojando la presion ,pero manteniendola para sacar el maximo beneficio
Ahora tendrán que quemar todo el plástico para poder tener gasolina de nuevo,aver como se pondrá el aire,solo por no querer estudiar más la electricidad.
Esta es como la trampa maltusiana del petróleo y en general de la energía, al final la historia demuestra que el ingenio siempre termina superando las dificultades
No me interesa si queda mucho o poco petroleo. No me interesa el CO2, el calentamiento, el invernadero, etc. Todos vamos a morir en algun momento. Sea por lo uno o por lo otro. Porque escrito está: Vivo yo, dice el Señor(YESHÚA HAMASHIAJ), que ante mí se doblará toda rodilla, Y toda lengua confesará a Dios. De manera que cada uno de nosotros dará a Dios cuenta de sí. Romanos 14:11-12
finalement ce vieux documentaire était bien pessimiste, en 2024 le pétrole conventionnel ou non coule toujours dans les canalisations de notre civilisation. Il est plus cher mais on s'adapte progressivement
@@aerocap absolument pas, rien n'est éternel, même notre planète. cependant je ne crois pas à un krach brutal et effrayant, le petrole "facile" se raréfie, les prix montent et d'autres sources de petrole (petrole de schiste, gisements profonds) peuvent êtres exploités. La transition va prendre des décennies, nous verrons encore du petrole pour longtemps.
Back in the mid 70s my father worked in an associated industry that supplied the oil exploration industry. He visited his customers in Aberdeen on a regular basis and met all sorts of people working in oil. On one occasion he had dinner with a group of people, including major US oil execs and had a long conversation with one guy over drinks. They got to discussing how long oil would last and this guy said, you and I and your children and their children need not worry, their are known oil reserves for at least 100 years, and new fields are being explored that could see another 50 years as well. I don't know any other details on that guy and my father is no longer with us so I can't ask him, so whether it is fact or if he was spouting bull we'll never know, interesting though.
That documentary is 20 years old.
And?
More like 35+. No discussion of the Iran-Iraq war or the 2 gulf wars.
@@rickden8362 and no debate of recent science discovery that oil continuously created by bacteria.
@@thethirtythree482 Why is so much missing?
@@johnnunn8688 aujourd'hui les réserves de pétrole n'ont jamais été aussi importante
I have a Organic Chemistry book from 1973 and in that book there was an idea to convert biomass into oil by using CO gas and heating it to 380 C under pressure of 1200PSI you could make 3 barrels of light crude per tonne of biomass . At the time it was expensive to do but the idea will come back .
Check startup terraform industries. It's not exactly the same, but similar vibe
There are a few processes to convert solids and gases into liquid fuel. Coal and biomass can by hydrogenated in the presence of a copper, nickel, or tin oleate catalyst called the Bergius Process. The Fischer-Tropsch process can convert synthesis gas (carbon monoxide and hydrogen) from gasified coal, biomass, trash, sewage sludge, etc. into synthetic crude oil, including lube oil, distillate oil like diesel, poor quality gasoline, and wax that can be cracked into good quality gasoline blending agent. This process uses nickel, iron, or cobalt catalysts. There is an additional more recent process called the Shell Methanol-to-Gasoline process that converted synthesis gas to gasoline with greater efficiency, by converting it first to methanol, then to dimethyl ether, then to gasoline, I believe using zeolite catalysts.
@@gregorymalchuk272 I already know the German processes and after the war with Russia comes to conclusions Ukraine will invest a lot money into the Coal to liquids technology and not to rely on Russia for anything. There's plenty of hydrocarbons in Ukraine for oil 829 million tonnes, for natural gas 2.4 billion tonnes and coal 60 billion tonnes so basically enough for years to come . One promising invention is the Onipko rotor generator using low speed of wind utilizing wind speeds of 2.5 mps which common all over Ukraine.
If it worked,we would do it
It's all about the economics
Every insider I know says we have 400 years of oil left.....I'm not going to lose any sleep
Another example of the experts being wrong.
@@thegeneralist7527 The Green River Oil Shale alone can cover about 2 centuries of global demand
So let's have the newer generations bitch and gripe at us for having not done shit to fix the problem for the future
the thing will be obsolete in 30 years by the way.
hidrogen should be the present and future.
@@aarx9230 hydrogen
They flare off petrochemicals that can easily refined onboard, compressed, cooled, cracked, isomerize, and sold as DME, Hydrogen, Propane, Butane, Natural Gas, Wax, Lubricants, Petrochemical Feedstock or similar downstream input chemicals for further on-land processing, into tanker ships and shipper to markets where the cost of such justifies the transport, like Norway where gasoline very expensive or Japan where natural gas and propane are expensive
In the future we will look back on this time with disgust. Oil had the ability to be made into so many different things, but we just burn it.
Personal fusion reactors will bring my Ultra-Flexinol super-substance into universal use. Moldable, edible and delicious, a perfect fuel for PFRs and generally exactly what we need. 16 billion super-sexy humopoopers dressed in UF glitter fashion coming up.
_Oil had the ability to be made into so many different things, but we just burn it._
We make everything from medicine to makeup and asphalt to plastic from oil.
Problem is contracts futures and bonds as usual, economic collapse been delayed for years now.
Incorrect! We need oil to power nuclear stations so we can use cesium to boil water. 🤪
@@angelsplace For air conditioning. Plus electric tire pulverizers with AI connectivity so you can extend your longevity.
Best Documentary, you're a rising star on UA-cam
35+ years out of date, not that there isn't 'some truth' in what he says, but there's a lot of fear mongering also.
Not rely.
We are clueless about how things are going to be different in a post petroleum economy. People are going to continue to try and live the life they're accustomed to, without ever realizing that's the problem to begin with
The guy at 25:00 wants everybody else to tell how much oil they have, yet they don't mention western reserves, captured fields and prospects. Curious inversion of roles here. He's playing the game of oil companies, by being harbringer of doom.
Jeder Mensch sollte dieser Film anschauen und nachdenken!
If oil never loses its lubricating properties, but needs to be "cleaned" to be used again (and the "clever" people" says the quality is 100% the same...) then what happens to the majority of the BILLONS of USED liters of oil? - The used and recycled oil should have been (by now) made up the majority, or a major quantity of the required quantity?
Some industrial hydraulic oils genuinely are recycled by additive package top-off. Engine oils get so contaminated from combustion byproducts and wear metals that they basically have to be fed into the input of a refinery to be re-refined.
And yet, proven reserves are higher than they have ever been
Back in the mid 70s my father worked in an associated industry that supplied the oil exploration industry. He visited his customers in Aberdeen on a regular basis and met all sorts of people working in oil. On one occasion he had dinner with a group of people, including major US oil execs and had a long conversation with one guy over drinks. They got to discussing how long oil would last and this guy said, you and I and your children and their children need not worry, their are known oil reserves for at least 100 years, and new fields are being explored that could see another 50 years as well. I don't know any other details on that guy and my father is no longer with us so I can't ask him, so whether it is fact or if he was spouting bull we'll never know, interesting though.
Such long reserves probably are in the Middle East, there are plenty of reserves in the North Sea too but the economic values of the smaller reserves makes them unviable. Alwyn still runs to this day but new tech has kept it going this long (large subsea tieback systems in particular)
Oil has never been cheaper in real terms (such as barrels per ounce of gold) than it is right now. Of course conventional exploration peaked in the 60s. That’s when the first massive advance in seismic mapping occurred. They quickly found all the super giant onshore fields because they were easy to find.
Now every year operators drill less dry holes, but they find smaller sizes of resources due to all the big geologic features of conventional onshore exploration are already found.
You can all start worrying when Finding and Discovery Costs (F&D in the 10Ks) return to the same levels in ounces of gold as they were in the 1980s. That would be a major reversal in real terms of developing new resources.
The problem with any reporting on fossil fuels is the subject is divided so inflexibly by two camps who each have their future tied up in their claims. Unless you’re a zealot believe either side at your peril.
Back then it was called TOTAL
34:10 The clarity of price is touted. But a large part of the cost is hidden. It is not included in price. We don't account for externalities. We could create a semblance of honest prices if we took random polls to find what rate of fossil fuel extraction would be called acceptable by most people, then sold extraction permits that correspond to that overall rate. The right of the people to define limits to impacts would be respected in practice. The policy will be fair if proceeds from permit sales were shared equally to all people. (End poverty. Promote sustainability)
South Gawar in Saudi suffered during early drop in production but Saudi invested heavily the in only oil and control extraction technology (pumping salt water inside the field to increase pressure) which restore the daily production.
At the same time Saudi developed the gigantic field in the empty quarter. The field is massive and is believed to extend across the boarder inside UAE and Oman.
In Kuwait Chevron completed a steam injection system on Al wafra oil field which dropped in 1990s to less than 10,000 bpd. Now the production is ramping to half million bpd. The success is encouraging Kuwait to install steam injection on Burgan north to restore production levels.
Beside that new discoveries in North Kuwait is very sizable of high quality sweet crude.
Then we come to the what is believed the biggest field in the world: Rumalah in Iraq. I heard it from BP engineer, they have evidents that this field extend from north east Syria all the way to west of Iraq and Jordan until it reach to the current developed reserves in Iraq. This explain why US insist on holding to Al Omer fields in Syria and continue fight war against ISIS who is now a small group of fighters roaming desert and posses no strategic threat.
The depleting oil is a myth as there are many areas in Africa yet to be explored, fields to be developed in Yemen and east Mediterranean.
The petrochemical industry had zero sympathy for the environment and historically even less for the consumer at the petrol pump. They’ve always found an excuse to raise the prices, and they’ll continue to punish anyone in their way as they see profit in alternative fuels. Even with age of this documentary they’ve worked ensure the maximum yield by influencing politicians to slow walk the switch to alternative energy.
A great one.
14:20 adding hydrogen gas to natural gas or fully replacing it with hydrogen, because it can be made from sea water at depth so its already highly pressurized into a oxygen and hydro line. 150 meters of sea water depth makes 200-300psi, 4000m is 5k to 7ksi. doesn't use energy to push it down the line other then the erosion of the carbon electrodes suspended inside of a glass matt material that only hydrogen and oxygen can boil out of. car batteries have that same matt material in them, its the only thing that makes a lead acid battery reliably rechargeable.
Excelente documental. Me gustó mucho verlo
All of these points are broadly correct - although all of these clips look 20 + years old.
Peak oil of conventional oil occurred in 2008 and generated the financial crisis of 2008. People saw the problem but nothing was done. Since 2008, oil world consumption is ensured by tight oil and oil sands.
08 FINANCIAL HOUSING CRISIS had nothing to do with oil 😂😂
في هذا الوثائقي يتكلمون عن انخفاض الإنتاج بسبب النضوب.
واليوم في عام ٢٠٢٤ دول أوبك تكافح لخفض إنتاجها لمنع الأسعار من الانخفاض 😵💫
R.I.P Colin Campbell 2022
Please go to Grenada in the Caribbean for more Oil and Gas
Oil is never gona go out. It’s always gona be here.
Yeah.. wells never dry up. The question, if what you say is true becomes, how long can we burn it and still breathe?
😂
If the uk runs out of oil be there own fault. With a huge off shore deposit some should of been saved in a strategic reserve to cover for a rainy day but nothing done except immediate profits.
Bull! The largest oil discovery in US history was just found in West Texas a few years ago. We've got more crew than we know what to do with.
Los paises productores de petroleo juegan con las economias mundiales extrangulandolas ,apretando y aflojando la presion ,pero manteniendola para sacar el maximo beneficio
Oil reserves are being replaced at about $1 a barrel FYI
???
@@paulandre3459 Yep, per James Norman former writer for Platts the guy who broke the Enron & oil for food scam in Iraq
Oh really, name your sources, cause I know you are full of it!!!😊
@@tuscanyjcspeakcenglish
@@tuscanyjcoil rules,tardo
"I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers."
Ahhh yes a film from back in the day when global warming was a well kept secret...
good information
Ahora tendrán que quemar todo el plástico para poder tener gasolina de nuevo,aver como se pondrá el aire,solo por no querer estudiar más la electricidad.
C'est à cause des les bateaux qu'on consomme beaucoup trop de carburant les bateaux les paquebots c'est énorme ce qui consomme
They make good money for sure🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉
And they should being that they're taking major risks...
Ça 20 ans qu'on nous dit qu'à plus de pétrole
De que fecha es este documental?
Greedy Billionaires!!
greed is good 😉
Lol 😂 we easily have 300 years of cheep recoverable oil!
Paid dividends represent lost opportunity? Lol, just seize all means, Mr "Scientist" to apply you economic policy. You're a politician at that point.
80년대 영상 같은데??
If you raise the price at the pumps, average Americans will freak out. Instead, raise the price of everything else..
It's called the CARBON TAX, the way govt, can charge you taxes on everything, abolish the tax...unless your rich,an then you don't care....goof
This aged poorly….
We were taught back in the 1950's that we would be soon out of oil. Guess not.
Esta es como la trampa maltusiana del petróleo y en general de la energía, al final la historia demuestra que el ingenio siempre termina superando las dificultades
No
No me interesa si queda mucho o poco petroleo.
No me interesa el CO2, el calentamiento, el invernadero, etc.
Todos vamos a morir en algun momento. Sea por lo uno o por lo otro.
Porque escrito está: Vivo yo, dice el Señor(YESHÚA HAMASHIAJ), que ante mí se doblará toda rodilla, Y toda lengua confesará a Dios. De manera que cada uno de nosotros dará a Dios cuenta de sí.
Romanos 14:11-12
10 años los arabes
They SAY that the resourse is finite, yet continually find new sourse. How very convenient...
Drill baby drill
No, there IS an end!
Lies!
oil continues to be found!
In fact it can actually be produced by earth, just like it produces other minerals!
Yes, but the production delay is millions of years for the quantity the population burns in 100 years.
dated
finalement ce vieux documentaire était bien pessimiste, en 2024 le pétrole conventionnel ou non coule toujours dans les canalisations de notre civilisation. Il est plus cher mais on s'adapte progressivement
Vous faites peut-être aussi partie ce ceux qui pensent encore que le pétrole est éternel.. 🙄
@@aerocap absolument pas, rien n'est éternel, même notre planète. cependant je ne crois pas à un krach brutal et effrayant, le petrole "facile" se raréfie, les prix montent et d'autres sources de petrole (petrole de schiste, gisements profonds) peuvent êtres exploités. La transition va prendre des décennies, nous verrons encore du petrole pour longtemps.
lies lies lies
Lies
oil
Back in the mid 70s my father worked in an associated industry that supplied the oil exploration industry. He visited his customers in Aberdeen on a regular basis and met all sorts of people working in oil. On one occasion he had dinner with a group of people, including major US oil execs and had a long conversation with one guy over drinks. They got to discussing how long oil would last and this guy said, you and I and your children and their children need not worry, their are known oil reserves for at least 100 years, and new fields are being explored that could see another 50 years as well. I don't know any other details on that guy and my father is no longer with us so I can't ask him, so whether it is fact or if he was spouting bull we'll never know, interesting though.
Who is going to read this spell??? I didn't
Your a self rightious goof