PREDICTIONS – 10 Years Later - Santa Fe Institute

APPENDIX C
OIL PRODUCTION AND DISCOVERY IN THE US
APPENDIX FIGURE 3.7 We see the life cycles that correspond to the S-curves
of Figure 3.2. Oil discovery (b) being a random search presents much more
irregularity than the consumption process (a). The open circles designate data
since the publication of PREDICTIONS. It is obvious that both processes are
in the phasing out stage.
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