Kenneth Deffeyes
Nationality	United States
Occupation	Geologist, Author, Educator
Title	Professor Emeritus

Kenneth S. Deffeyes is a geologist who worked with M. King Hubbert of Hubbert's peak fame, at the Shell Oil Company research laboratory in Houston, Texas. A geologist is a contributor to the Science of Geology, studying the physical structure and processes of the Earth and planets of the solar system Marion King Hubbert (October 5 1903 &ndash October 11 1989 was a Geoscientist who worked at the Shell research Shell Oil Company is the United States -based affiliate of Royal Dutch Shell, a multinational oil company (" Oil major " of Anglo Texas ( is a state geographically located in the South Central United States and is also known as the Lone Star State. In 1967 he began teaching at Princeton University, where he is now Professor Emeritus. Princeton University is a private Coeducational research university located in Princeton, New Jersey. The meaning of the word professor ( Latin: professor, person who professes to be an expert in some art or science teacher of highest rank) varies

In John McPhee's 1981 book Basin and Range (about the origin of Basin and Range topography), Prof. John Angus McPhee (born March 8, 1931) is a Pulitzer Prize -winning writer widely considered one of the pioneers of narrative nonfiction Year 1981 ( MCMLXXXI) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link displays the 1981 Basin and range is a geologic term for a type of Topography characterized by a series of separate and parallel mountain ranges with broad valleys interposed extending Deffeyes helps explain geological science to McPhee through explaining road cuts associated with Interstate highway I-80. In Civil engineering, a cutting or cut is where part of a hill or mountain is cut out to make way for a road or rail line Interstate 80 (I-80 is the second-longest Interstate Highway in the United States (after I-90)

He is the author of the book Hubbert's Peak (2001). Year 2001 ( MMI) was a Common year starting on Monday according to the Gregorian calendar. In 2005 he published the book Beyond Oil - The view from Hubbert's peak. On February 11, 2006 Deffeyes claimed that world oil production peaked on December 16 2005. Events 660 BC - Traditional founding date of Japan by Emperor Jimmu. Year 2006 ( MMVI) was a Common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar.

Quotes

• "Crude oil is much too valuable to be burned as a fuel. "
• "The economists all think that if you show up at the cashier's cage with enough currency, God will put more oil in ground. "

See also

• Colin J. Campbell
• Jean Laherrère
• Dale Allen Pfeiffer
• Matthew R. Simmons

External links

• Deffeyes' peak oil site at Princeton
• Deffeyes' autobiographical sketch
• American Journal of Physics review of Hubbert's Peak: The Impending World Oil Shortage
• GRIST review of Beyond Oil - The view from Hubbert's peak

Colin J Campbell, PhD Oxford, (born in Berlin, Germany in 1931 is a retired British petroleum geologist who predicts that oil production will Jean H Laherrère is a Petroleum engineer and consultant best known as the co-author of an influential 1998 Scientific American article entitled "The End of Dale Allen Pfeiffer is a geologist from Michigan, US who has recently been investigating and writing about Hubbert Peak theory and the specter Matthew Simmons, chairman and CEO of Simmons & Company International, is a prominent oil-industry insider and one of the world's leading experts on the topic

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