The EIA’s newest International Petroleum Monthly shows World C+C production for January was 74,466,000 barrels per day, eclipsing the heretofore peak of May 2005 by 168,000 barrels per day. (thanks to Ron Patterson for the heads up and to Khebab for the quick graphics).



World oil production (EIA Monthly) for crude oil + NGL. The median forecast is calculated from 13 models that are predicting a peak before 2020 (Bakhtiari, Smith, Staniford, Loglets, Shock model, GBM, ASPO-[70,58,45], Robelius Low/High, HSM). 95% of the predictions sees a production peak between 2008 and 2010 at 77.5 - 85.0 mbpd ( The 95% confidence interval is computed using a bootstrap technique). Click to Enlarge.

Peak oil a hoax? Deffeyes dephazed? Robert Vindicated? Bumpy plateau continues? Oil prices gonna drop like a stone? Totally meaningless datapoint? Pass the Kool-Aid? Discuss.

[Update by Khebab]: Despite the good news above, Russia's production plateau is looking more and more like a peak now:

The year-on-year monthly production growth is near zero and reached its lowest point since 1998: