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It is September 28, 2004 and the time has just passed noon. My mobile phone rings. Sweden’s national TV Corporation (SVT) is calling and they want to visit me for an interview. The price of oil has just passed US$50 per barrel so they want to record my comments before their evening news broadcast. At that moment I am eating dates in the office of Abdulla M. Al-Malood who, in 2004, was head of production for the giant oilfield Bab in Abu Dhabi of the United Arab Emirates (UAE). Upon hearing this, SVT realizes it will be difficult for them to visit so they satisfy themselves with some comments via telephone. A few minutes later Sweden’s national radio broadcaster rings me with the same agenda. The reason for my visit to the Bab oilfield is to learn more about oil production.
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In November 2010 when this chapter was written the team (Michael Lardelli, Olle Qvennerstedt and I) was together in Adelaide in Australia. At that time Jonica Newby, a presenter on the Catalyst popular science program on Australia’s ABC TV, was preparing a segment about Peak Oil titled The Oil Crunch. Jonica came to Adelaide to interview me for the segment. The Oil Crunch and extended interviews can be viewed online at http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/oilcrunch/. There you can also find a video of Jonica demonstrating our model oilfield as shown in Fig. 7.4 (2010)
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Aleklett, K. (2012). The Art of Producing (Extracting) Oil. In: Peeking at Peak Oil. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-3424-5_7
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