Governments, however, also have a key role in making sure future energy demand is met by making resources more readily available, Marco Rasi, vice president of Asia Pacific at ExxonMobil Development told delegates at the World Petroleum Congress in Qatar on Wednesday.



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“We don’t need to discover a lot of new resources if we continue to push forward with new technology and make it possible to economically produce resources that we already know about,” Rasi said on the topic of peak oil at the Doha event.

“Many