Petroleum engineer to discuss peak production

Career oil hunter says oil production will decline as fossil fuel supply runs out

As a high school student in Southern California in the late 1950s, Ted Bezzerides worked part time pumping gas.

“I remember s pilling some gas on the ground when it was 18 cents a gallon


With gasoline hovering at around $3.50 a gallon today, Bezzerides, now a semiretired petroleum engineer living in Brookings, knows that a dime’s worth of petrol wouldn’t get you around the block.

He also knows that the world is nearing its peak oil period