(Version originale : "A growing number of oil-industry chieftains are endorsing an idea long deemed fringe: The world is approaching a practical limit to the number of
barrels of crude oil that can be pumped every day. Some predict that, despite the world's fast-growing thirst for oil, producers could hit that ceiling as soon as 2012. This rough limit --
which two senior industry officials recently pegged at about 100 million barrels a day -- is well short of global demand projections over the next few decades.")
En plus du PDG de Total et de Conoco-Phillips, l'article parle aussi d'une déclaration du responsable de la société pétrolière lybienne qui a confirma lors de cette conférence que le
plafond de 100 million de barils serait difficile à dépasser.