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This graph shows that oil production has already peaked in non-OPEC, non-former Soviet Union countries.

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From public domain document "Strategic Significance of America's Oil Shale Resource Volume I Assessment of Strategic Issues" at http://www.fe.doe.gov/programs/reserves/publications/Pubs-NPR/npr_strategic_significancev1.pdf

(Updated version from same authors at http://www.odac-info.org/links/documents/LBST_Countdown_2004-10-12.pdf - see below. —AySz88 \^-^ 19:55, 26 June 2006 (UTC))

This work is in the public domain in the United States because it is a work of the United States Federal Government under the terms of 17 U.S.C. § 105. See Copyright.

Note: This only applies to works of the Federal Government and not to the work of any individual US state, territory, commonwealth, county, subdivision, or municipality.

The above document has now disappeared from the US Department of Energy website. A copy of the report may be accessed here: http://www.evworld.com/library/Oil_Shale_Stategic_Significant.pdf

The graph was prepared by Werner Zittel and Jorg Schlinder who are not US Government employees. An updated version of the graph can be accessed in the definitive article 'The Countdown for the Peak of Oil Production has Begun – but what are the Views of the Most Important International Energy Agencies' by Zittel and Schlinder: http://www.energybulletin.net/2544.html

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(del) (cur) 19:52, 26 June 2006 . . AySz88 (Talk | contribs) . . 853×590 (87,629 bytes) (Upload "updated version" mentioned in description, screenshotted from the PDF version)
(del) (rev) 20:03, 7 December 2004 . . The Anome (Talk | contribs) . . 861×467 (219,613 bytes) (Hubbert peak graph from public domain document http://www.fe.doe.gov/programs/reserves/publications/Pubs-NPR/npr_strategic_significancev1.pdf)