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and chief executive officer of the energy investment-banking corporation, Simmons & Company International. While researching oil reserve projections for Bush back in 2000, Simmons was disturbed by what he
was learning. The need for oil was escalating at such a rapid pace due to widespread economic progress in historically depressed regions like China and India that growth, which
had already far surpassed the 70 million barrels a day that had been forecast back in the mid-1990s. Saudi Arabia produces more than 10 percent of the worlds current
oil supply (more than 1 percent of that used by the United States), and Simmons text, Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy, ponders
whether or not this kingdom can continue to supply an aggressive and constantly growing global demand. Twilight in the Desert is intent upon exposing the myth that in Saudi Arabia,
oil is "easy to find, cheap to produce, and almost inexhaustible in its supply" (Simmons 97). But as Simmons soon learned after launching his initial inquiry, most of the
Middle East oil is being produced by the few rather than the many. This initially sent the authors signals up, and in 2003, he conducted an extensive inquiry of
more than 200 technical papers that had been presented by the engineers and executives of Aramco (later Saudi Aramco) on the conditions of these oil fields dating back to 1961.
These reports were subsequently published by the Society of Petroleum Engineers in Richardson, Texas (Simmons 97). What Simmons found in those papers convinced him that despite boastful assurances,
Saudi Arabia would never be able to successfully satisfy the upsurge in oil consumption that has occurred in recent years. The textual arguments can be subdivided into two parts, with
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