Hi All: I added an updated US Production vs. Imports graph through March of 2012. It shows an uptick of some magnitude but it is scraping along the bottom. Alaska is averaging just slightly under 600K BBl/day over the past year and a half from its peak of over 2 MBD back in March of 1988. Wayne
Tar sands bitumen proves we have passed peak oil. Ultra-deep water drilling also proves we have passed peak oil. The easy to get, higher quality oil is dwindling quickly.
a graphic demonstrating how deep a deep ocean oil well is, its large, you may have to pan around. http://xkcd.com/1040/large/ from http://xkcd.com/1040/