Odell, P.R. http://repub.eur.nl/res/aut/18130/ List of Publications en http://repub.eur.nl/static-eur/img/logo.png RePub, Erasmus University Rotterdam http://repub.eur.nl The long-term future for energy resources' exploitation (Article) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/21895/ 2010-12-01T00:00:00Z It is often argued that dependence on carbon fuels should be reduced as soon as possible - both for fears of our 'running out' of them and of their impact on global warming. But the ideas of 'peak oil' and 'peak gas' are both myths. Indeed, there is little by way of 'renewable' sources of energy being able to secure more than 40% of total energy requirements in 2100. Thus oil, gas and coal will continue to dominate the world's energy supply for many decades. If need be, the only solution in the event of global warming would be by sequestering the carbon underground. The guardian declined to publish the following letter on peak global oil supply in 2020 (Article) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/16509/ 2009-05-29T00:00:00Z The potential for natural gas from the North sea in relation to Western Europe's market for gas by the mid-1980s (Article) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/15282/ 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z Optimal development of the North Sea's oil fields - the reply (Article) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/15285/ 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z We consider that Wall et al's technical criticisms of our monograph are irrelevant or ill-confused. Their volumetric analytic method is inadequate and their approach to the platform/wells location question conflicts with oil industry views. On the economic aspects, Wall et al avoid the central issue we considered - on how to resolve company-government conflict - and instead take up an issue - on the overall speed of North Sea development - which we did not discuss. We show, moreover, how this criticism of our study is largely unsubstantiated personal opinion and, as such, unworthy of consideration, even if many of Wall et al's arguments were not erroneous. Energy resources and energy demand. Two workshops organised by the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, one on methods of assessing energy resources, the other on energy demand, Laxenburg, Austria, 20-23 May, 1975 (Article) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/15313/ 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z Indigenous oil and gas developments and Western Europe's energy policy options (Article) http://repub.eur.nl/res/pub/15317/ 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z If Europe is not just a cluster of interrelated national and corporate interests, then must it not have a viable and progressive energy policy? Professor Odell argues that existing strategies are conventional and static. His critique presents another option for Western Europe, based on a dynamic evaluation of the potential of indigenous gas and oil. The geographical advantages of their location, substitution of oil by gas in industry, and above all the change in thinking about the role of these vast resources may lead, if systematically applied, to Western Europe being able to supply almost half its oil and gas requirements from domestic sources by the mid 1980s.