The Battle for Barrels: Peak Oil Myths & World Oil Futures

by Duncan Clarke

It is widely accepted that global discoveries of conventional oil have peaked and that the era of cheap oil has gone forever. This book demonstrates that the doom and gloom of the "Peak Oil" theory is mistaken. Clarke rebuts the arguments of Peak Oil's adherents and discusses the issues they ignore - rising crude oil prices, new or future technologies, potential improved exploration acreage and/or access to restricted world oil zones, changes in government policies, new corporate strategies, development in unconventional oils, and more.

Genres: Politics

224 pages, Hardcover

First published February 1, 2007

About the author

Duncan Clarke, born in Salisbury, Rhodesia, in 1948.

He has published numerous books including The House of Stone: An Unwritten Story, 2025; The Grandfather: Rhodesian Saga, 2025; Cecil Rhodes Library, 2024; Zambesia: The Literary Safari, 2024; The Quiet Rhodesian: Silent Servant 1909-1981, 2023, Accidental Author: Fifty Years Writing, Africa and the World, 2023; The Last Rhodesians: Society Adrift, 2022; and, Rhodes’ Ghost: The Conquest of Zambesia, 2020.

All these books are published by Royal Sable Publishing, and are available on Amazon.

Other Kindle e-Books published include the Series on The Zambesia Chronicles, 2025 - Lost Peoples of Zambesia: The Stone Age San; Zambesia's Origins: Terra Incognita; Strangers in Zambesia, El Dorado Discovered; Wilderness: The Early Explorers; Watersheds in Zambesia: Ruins, Disputes, Historians; Zambesia's Revelations: Literature & Literati; Zambesia's Landscapes: Populus & Historia.

Another Kindle Series focused on Cecil Rhodes' Private Library, entitled as The Cecil Rhodes Collection, includes e-Books on: Rhodes and 'The North'; Biographers & The Bibliophile; Africana & Cartography; Art, Biography, Geography, Maps; Classics, The Mind & Thoughts; Chronology & Bibliography.

Forthcoming: Twilight in Paradise: The 'Left Behind' Rhodesians, 2026.

Other publications by Duncan Clarke on the world oil industry - Battle for Barrels, Empires of Oil, Africa: Crude Continent, and Africa's Future: Darkness to Destiny - were published during 2006-12 by Profile Books in London.

Three Decades in the Long Grass, 2014, tells the story of Global Pacific & Partners, the firm founded by the author.

Duncan Clarke was founder and Chairman of the Board, Global Pacific & Partners, a private advisory firm in world oil and gas 1978-2016.

With B, Comm (Hons), Economics 1969, and PhD (Economics), University of St Andrews, 1975, he has published extensively on Africa and been advisor to numerous governments and companies in worldwide oil and energy.

Founder of Royal Sable Publishing, 2017.

For more on the author's books, and writing, 1969-2023, see www.duncan-clarke.com