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Bassam Fattouh

Bassam Fattouh

Bassam Fattouh is Senior Research Fellow and Director of the Oil and Middle East Program at the Oxford Institute for Energy Studies.
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    Series: The Energy Challenge
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    Throughout the history of the oil industry, fear and concern about the imminent exhaustion of the world's oil resources has been a recurring theme. Today's "peak oil" theorists continue this tradition, constantly facing the need to revise their dire forecasts without ever examining why their earlier predictions were wrong.... read
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