ASPO, Association for the Study of Peak Oil and Gas, is a network of scientists and professionals having an interest in determining the date and impact of the peak and decline of the world's production of oil and gas due to resource constraints. The 9^th ASPO conference is the only international conference exclusively dedicated to fossil fuel depletion and its economic and social consequences.

The era of cheap energy is ending due to the depletion of low cost fossil fuel deposits. Since 2000, production constraints led to a quadrupling of the oil price and increasing volatility on the oil markets. Since 2011, these trends are exacerbated by political instability in North Africa and the Middle-East.

Join the ASPO9 conference to analyze these events. You will discuss the future of fossil fuels, the impacts of 100+ dollars per barrel oil prices on the economy, agriculture, and territory planning, the role of scientific research to develop solutions to peak oil consequences, as well as many other subjects related to the European Energy Policy in an Era of Expensive Energy. With some oil producing countries having recently shifted from a status of oil exporter to a status of oil importer (Tunisia, Egypt) or being expected to do so in a few years (Bahrain, Yemen, Syria), you will be plunged into the events unfolding in the Arab world, and will discuss the effects of a decline of oil exports for oil producing and oil importing countries. You will also discover the first political mobilizations in Belgium to face these challenges.

With the participation of two UCL Professors:

·         Prof. Thierry Bréchet – Analysis of the peak oil effects for the Walloon territory

·         Prof. Jean-Pascal van Ypersele – Climate change and fossil fuel depletion