M. King Hubbert
M. King Hubbert (
October 5,
1903 -
October 11,
1989) was a
geophysicist who worked at the
Shell research lab in
Houston Texas. At the 1956 meeting of the American Petroleum Institute in
San Antonio Texas, Hubbert made the prediction that oil production would peak in the
United States in the late
1960s to the early
1970s. He became famous when this prediction came true in 1970. The curve he used in his analysis is known as the
Hubbert curve and the peak of the curve is known as the
Hubbert peak.