Image talk:Hubbert world 2004.png
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There appears to be a problem with the graphic. The label says "MMBbl/D" but the axis values are to 5 places left of the decimal. Common oil industry usage assigns 3 zeros to each of the ´M´ values in the label. This would make non-FSU production tens of billions of barrels of oil daily. Tens of millions is more likely. Crubins 11:53, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
- Yes, it's because the prefix "M" can either stand for "mega" (106) or, like here, for the latin "mille" (10<3>). Raminagrobis
Also, the link for the graphic appears to be broken. Crubins 11:59, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
Note the graphic lacks some countries who started only recently to produce oil : Chad, Sudan, Equatorial Guinea... Mauritania, who will soon start production, should be added too. This would however only sightly attenuate the decline.--Raminagrobis
This graphic is quite misleading, the title says "world" yet it does not include OPEC which accounts for over 50% of the total. The fact that non-OPEC non-FSU countries are in decline may be interesting, but a summary chart should have total world production. At least it should be made clear to the casual reader that this chart does not represent world situtation Bobcousins 12:24, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
I agree that it would be quite interesting to see the chart contrasted with one that does include OPEC and the FSU. In fact, if we're going to have the "pile" model of charting, why not have just one image, with a highlighted line separating the three blocks? But I assume there's probably a second image in the publication where this came from.
I also get the impression that the distortion of the upper strata could be improved with some reordering; moving the US towards the top might help with that.
Is the data on which the chart is based readily available in a computer-readable format? Shouldn't take too long to cook something up then :-)
minor nitpick: the Neutral Zone was divided between OPEC members Iraq and Saudi Arabia (I'm deliberately not giving a date, see that article). I'm not even sure whether production in that area ever wasn't subject to OPEC quotas ... essentially, I think this is just a fluke.
RandomP 14:52, 9 June 2006 (UTC)
