This has a lot to do with the unrest in Nigeria, but also with the production loss after the hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, the decline in Iraq since the 2003 war, and the decline in Venezuelan output since 2002.

Council on Foreign Relations Press 2001. An essay that Yergin publiDaniel Yergind on the peak oil controversy in the Wall Street Journal aroused further criticism from the peak oil community. 1982 ISBN 0-394-71063-0; Random House new revised 3rd ed.

Yergin is the co-founder and chairman of Cambridge Energy Research Associates an energy research consultancy that is now part of IHS Inc. Daniel Howard Yergin (born February 6 1947) is a Pulitzer Prize winning American author speaker and economic researcher.