Gavin Bridge, Professor of Economic Geography, Durham University discusses oil's unconventional future.

Although oil shows no sign of running out anytime soon, the nature of oil is changing. Technology, higher prices and government policy have opened up new 'unconventional' oil reserves and spurred oil production in unconventional places. In this talk I explore the scale and significance of oil's fast-arriving unconventional future. Dr. Bridge demonstrate some of the emergent geographies of supply and demand associated with this future, and consider what they mean for established geographies of production, consumption and regulation. Unconventional oil may reduce the prospect of physical scarcity he concludes, but - paradoxically - that is precisely why we should be concerned.