Rogner, H. - H., An assessment of
world hydrocarbon resources, Annu.
Not exact matches
A decade on, Africa's petrostates remain some of the most
resource - dependent in the
world, deriving the lion's share of government revenues from
hydrocarbons.
They might better be prepared to compete in a
world where
hydrocarbon resources are becoming a limiting factor in success.
In a
world in which natural gas demand rises by almost 50 % to 2040 and oil consumption continues to grow, the interest in offshore
hydrocarbon resources remains strong.
The Arctic contains more than a fifth of the
world's untapped
hydrocarbon resources.
The reserves are taken from the
World Energy Council 2004 report, except for China, where we used the reserves from the Chinese Ministry of Land and
Resources by way of Sandro Schmidt, and South Africa, which has been reassessed recently Figure 9 shows the cumulative plots for future - fuel production using the trends we have developed for
hydrocarbons and coal, and with lms fits for the 10 % and 90 % years.
(The formal reference for the Uppsala study is «The Study of
World Oil
Resources and the Impact on IPCC Emissions Scenarios, Anders Sivertsson, Uppsala
Hydrocarbon Depletion Study Group, Uppsala University, Sweden, www.isv.uu.se/uhdsg".)
«
Hydrocarbon resources around the
world are abundant and will easily fuel the
world through its transition to a sustainable energy future.»