Mr. Chris Skrebowski
Director, Peak Oil Consulting Limited, Consulting Editor
Petroleum Review
Energy Institute, London
Chris has spent his entire working career in the oil industry split roughly one-third as a planner/market analyst in the industry and two-thirds as an oil journalist and editor.
He founded Peak Oil Consulting in May 2007 to provide analytical insights into the way that global oil production is approaching a peak and to address the consequences and potential mitigations of this.
Chris started his working career in 1970 as a long-term planner for BP and then joined Petroleum Times as a journalist just before the first oil crisis of 1973/74. In the late 1970s he edited Offshore Services, an offshore oil magazine.
He spent eight years as a market analyst for the Saudi Oil Ministry working in London. He edited Petroleum Economist before joining the (UK) Institute of Petroleum as editor of Petroleum Review. The Institute of Petroleum changed its name to become the (UK) Energy Institute in 2003.
As well as writing for a range of oil industry related publications he has also broadcast extensively on radio and TV on oil and gas subjects. One of the founder members of the ASPO he has a great interest in oil depletion and its consequences. He is also a trustee on the board of ODAC (Oil Depletion Analysis Centre).
Chris is a regular speaker at ASPO events having spoken at ASPO meetings in Paris (2004), Lisbon (2005), Pisa (2006), Cork (2007) and Barcelona (2008). He also addressed ASPO-USA in Denver (2005) and Houston (2007).
He has made numerous presentations on oil depletion to business audiences, including government departments, financial and industrial concerns. Chris has testified before a House of Commons Select committee of the UK Parliament and made presentations to various UK government departments. In company with Dr Colin Campbell he has made presentations to the UK and Irish governments.
