The Coming Saudi Oil Shock

Matthew Simmons, investment banker to the global oil and gas services sector, backs off little if at all from his vision of an energy-constrained world in the paperback edition of Twilight In The Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock And The World Economy. The bestseller rocked the investment and energy communities last year with a controversial thesis: the large Saudi oilfields which underpin global supply security could have much shorter production life expectancies that previously believed.

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