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Total Production of Many Oil Wells

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Suppose oil wells are discovered that have various sizes, start times, and durations, where all three quantities are normally distributed. What does the production of all the wells taken together look like over time?

Contributed by: George Beck (March 2011)
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See the Wikipedia entry for Hubbert peak theory,and energybulletin.org.

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