ASPO-China is formed

By Kjell Aleklett, originally published by ASPO International / Energy Bulletin

October 30, 2007

NOTE: Images in this archived article have been removed.

On the 26th of October 2007, a Peak Oil workshop was held at the China University of Petroleum Beijing (CUPB). Experts from Chinese oil companies (Sinochem, CNPC and SINOPEC) were present together with the president and the secretary of ASPO International.

The Vice Director of the Strategy Office (China Energy Office) together with an expert from the National Development and Reform Commission of China also attended the workshop on Peak Oil. Professors from the Institute of Engineering Economics, Foreign Affairs Office and the school of Business Administration together with professors from other universities made contributions to the discussion.

It was unanimously agreed that ASPO-China should be formed and that Peak Oil research and modeling is essential to China. As seven of the nine new leaders in China have been engineering students it is expected that Peak Oil will feature in future government policy-making decisions.

The chancellor of the China Petroleum University of Beijing, Jiang Qingzhe, was elected as the new president of ASPO-China and vice-chancellor professor Pang Xiongqi as Vice President. Secretary for ASPO-China is professor Feng Lianyong.

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From the left: Feng Lianyong, secretary ASPO China, Mikael Höök, secretary ASPO International, Kjell Aleklett, president of ASPO International, Jiang Qingzhe, president ASPO-China, and Pang Xiongqi, vice-president ASPO-China.

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Kjell Aleklett

Kjell Aleklett is Professor of Physics at Uppsala University in Sweden where he leads the Uppsala Global Energy Systems Group (UGES). He holds a doctorate in nuclear physics from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden, and worked as a postdoctoral fellow and staff scientist from 1977 to 1985 at the Natural Science Laboratory at Studsvik, Sweden.

Together with Colin Campbell he organised the First International Workshop on Oil Depletion in May 2002 at Uppsala University. It was in connection with this workshop that ASPO, the Association for the Study of Peak Oil & Gas, was established. Since 2003 he has been president of ASPO International.

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