Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash
| A Crude Awakening | |
|---|---|
| Directed by | Basil Gelpke, Ray McCormack |
| Produced by | Basil Gelpke, Ray McCormack |
| Music by | Daniel Schnyder |
| Editing by | Georgia Wyss |
| Distributed by | Lava Productions AG |
| Release date(s) | May 24 2006 |
| Running time | 94 min |
| Country | Switzerland |
| Language | English |
| Official website | |
| IMDb profile | |
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash is an award-winning documentary film about peak oil, produced and directed by Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack. [1]
Overview
A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash explores key historical events, data and predictions regarding the global peak in petroleum production through interviews with petroleum geologists, former OPEC officials, energy analysts, politicians, and political analysts. The film contains contemporary footage interspersed with news and commercial footage from the growth heydays of petroleum production. The documentary focuses on information and testimony that supports the projection of a near-term oil production peak.
Interviews
Interviewees include energy investment banking CEO Matthew Simmons, petroleum geologist Dr. Colin Campbell, former OPEC Secretary-General Fadhil Chalabi, among many others. [2]
Findings
The interviewees provided the results of their analysis of current levels of proven reserves, the limited opportunities for significant oil discoveries, and the dire economic consequences of a global oil production peak. Their overall conclusions were that a global peak was imminent (if not already occurring), more wars would be fought to control access to oil resources, and economies most dependent on oil (or relying on trade with oil-dependent nations) would suffer dire consequences rivaling the Great Depression, without the benefit of cheap oil to enable a recovery.
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