Peak oil demand, a theory with many doubters
https://www.chron.com/business/energy/article/Peak-oil-demand-a-theory-with-many-doubters-12729734.php March 6, 2018
...Helen Currie, the chief economist at Conoco Phillips, said her company had modeled electric car demand and other factors and "struggled with finding a peak," "anytime within the next 20 to 30 years," during a panel at the IHS Markit CERAWeek energy conference in Houston Monday.
"We readily acknowledge it's plausible, but we really tend to see oil demand being fairly strong and robust," she said.
The concept of peak oil demand has overtaken the oil world since last summer when Shell CEO Ben van Beurden predicted oil demand would peak within a decade. BP joined the chorus last month, though predicting it would take 20 years...
...The difference in how oil companies predict the future largely boils down to whether or not they are bullish on electric vehicles and governments' commitment to reducing greenhouse gas emissions, said Neil Atkinson, the head of the International Energy Association's oil industry and markets division....