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| Occupation | Investment banker, Author |
| Children | 5 daughters |
Matthew Simmons, chairman and CEO of Simmons & Company International, is a prominent oil-industry insider and one of the world's leading experts on the topic of peak oil. Simmons was motivated by the 1973 energy crisis to create an investment banking firm catering to oil companies. In his previous capacity, he served as energy adviser to U.S. President George W. Bush.
Matthew Simmons believes the Club of Rome predictions are more accurate than usually acknowledged [1]. Simmons is an advisor to the Oil Depletion Analysis Centre. He is a member of the National Petroleum Council and the Council on Foreign Relations. He believes a careful assessment of Saudi Arabian oil reserves is the most significant issue shaping petroleum politics.
Simmons is the author of the book Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy. His examination of oil reserve decline rates helped raise awareness of the unreliability of Middle East oil reserves as the published reports have never been verified.
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Saudi Arabian oil reserves
In his book, Simmons argues that production from Saudi Arabia, and especially from Ghawar, the world's largest oil field, will peak in the near future, if it has not done so already. Simmons bases his case on hundreds of internal documents from Saudi Aramco, professional journals, and other authoritative sources.
"Twilight in the Desert" has been criticized for "turning benign technical matters into crisis-level evidence" and making "numerous technical gaffes", such as misinterpreting fuzzy logic as meaning "fuzzy numbers", "dew point" as meaning the pressure that a well stops producing, citing obsolete data on water cuts, and assuming that a pressure drop in a vertical wells has the same implications as in a multilateral well. He is also accused of ghost references and misrepresenting sources.[1]
Oil price wager
In August 2005, Simmons bet John Tierney and Rita Simon, the widow of Julian Simon, $2500 each that the price of oil averaged over the entire calendar year of 2010 will be at least $200 per barrel (in 2005 dollars). This wager has been dubbed "The Simmons-Tierney Bet." [2]
Appearances
Simmons has made contributions to the films *PEAK OIL - Imposed by NatureThe Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil (2006), The End of Suburbia, Crude Impact, and Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash, and appeared on *World Energy Television World Energy Video Interview, August 2008
Further reading
- Matthew Simmons, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy 2005 ISBN 0-471-73876-X, The book has been translated into German and Chinese.
See also
References
- ^ Simmons, Matthew. Revisiting The Limits to Growth: Could The Club of Rome Have Been Correct, After All?. GreatChange.org, 30 Sept 2000.
- ^ Tierney, John. link The $10,000 Question. NY Times. 23 August 2005. Retrieved 7 June 2007
External links
Articles
- Matt Simmons discusses global trends on World Energy Television World Energy Video Interview, August 2008
- Simmons investigates latest data EVWorld interviews Matthew Simmons, Feb. 2008.
- Matthew Simmons calls on regional oil producers to curb output MEED.
- Matt Simmons discusses global trends on World Energy Television World Energy Video Interview
- Global Crude Supply: Is the Oil Peak Near? World Energy Magazine, by Matthew Simmons.
- Fixing Corrupt Investment Research: It's Not That Hard World Energy Magazine. Matthew Simmons.
- The Case for a Coming Gas Shortage World Energy Magazine. Matthew Simmons.
- Is the Petroleum Pricing System Out of Control? World Energy Magazine. Matthew Simmons.
- The Coming Saudi Oil Crisis
- more articles by Simmons
General
- Jim Jarrell's criticism of Twilight
- ASPO USA Peak Oil conference at Boston University, 27 October 2006
- Financial Sense Newshour: Matthew Simmons, 5 audio interviews: 6 August 2005 - 7 April 2007.
- The Economist: Face Value: Review of Matthew Simmons in The Economist
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