[Pil-pc-oceania] Peak oil and the opportunities it offers for Australia

[pacific-edge]

Roger Bezdek
 
Wednesday 27th June 2007    
6pm.start registrations from 5.30pm
* Please book early bookings are filling up quickly.
 
Peak oil and the opportunities it offers for Australia
 
Peaking of World Oil Production:
Impacts, Mitigation, & Risk Management
Dr Roger Bezdek
 
"The peaking of world oil production presents the U.S. and the world with an
unprecedented risk management problem. As peaking is approached, liquid fuel
prices and price volatility will increase dramatically, and, without timely
mitigation, the economic, social, and political costs will be unprecedented.
Viable mitigation options exist on both the supply and demand sides, but to
have substantial impact, they must be initiated more than a decade in
advance of peaking." 
"The world has never faced a problem like this. Without massive mitigation
more than a decade before the fact, the problem will be pervasive and will
not be temporary.  Previous energy transitions (wood to coal and coal to
oil) were gradual and evolutionary; oil peaking will be abrupt and
revolutionary". 
 

Dr Bezdek has 30 years experience in research and management in the energy,
utility, environmental, and regulatory areas, serving in private industry,
academia, and the federal government, and is the founder and president of
Management Information Services, Inc. - a Washington, D.C.-based economic
and energy research firm.

He has served as Corporate Director, Corporate President and CEO, University
Professor, Research Director in ERDA/DOE, Special Advisor on Energy in the
Office of the Secretary of the Treasury, U.S. energy delegate to the
European Community and to the North Atlantic Treaty Organization, and as a
participant in the State Department AMPART program. Mr Bezdek has also
served as a consultant to the White House, Federal and state government
agencies, and various corporations and research organizations. 

During 2003/04, he served on the select Federal Task Force charged with
rebuilding the economy of Iraq and is currently serving as a member of the
joint U.S. National Academies of Science/Chinese Academy of Sciences
Committee on Energy Futures and Air Pollution in Urban China and the United
States.