Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari

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Bakhtiari is a senior expert employed by the National Iranian Oil Company (NIOC). He has held a number of senior positions with this organisation since 1971. He is also an advisor to the Oil Depletion Analysis Centre.

He holds a PhD in chemical engineering from the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich, Switzerland. He has been a part-time lecturer for the Technical Faculty at Tehran University for many years. Bakhtiari has written a number of short essays and is the author of Peaks and Troughs which is about the modern history of Iran.

Dr Bakhtiari has suggested that it would require an act of god for the world to avoid warring over depleting energy resources. He also believes that a peak in natural gas will be more shocking than peak oil because natural gas is less fluid and requires pipelines and LNG facilities to export overseas.

Bakhtiari features in the film The End of Suburbia.

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"The big risk in Saudi Arabia is that Ghawar's rate of decline increases to an alarming point. That will set bells ringing all over the oil world because Ghawar underpins Saudi output and Saudi undergirds worldwide production." - Ali Morteza Samsam Bakhtiari