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The world's thirst is not sustainable as experts predict an imminent decline and fall in oil production. In this seven-day series, the Globe investigates what awaits the world as the reserves dry up.

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Saturday May 21

• Welcome to the age of scarcity
  
• Supply: Are Saudi reserves drying up?
  
• Demand: China's unquenchable thirst
  
• Reguly: Deal junkie set to play trust consolidation game
  
• Key to making money in oil is getting trend right
  
• North-South energy links are growing ever tighter
  
• Sustained high prices redraw Canada's economic map
  
• How to grind the oil sands into a 'sausage factory'
  
  

  Monday May 23

  
  
• Deep pockets buy into high tech
  
• Startup aims to feast on the scraps
  
  

  Tuesday May 24

  
  
• The great Caspian Sea adventure
  
• Hot Spots: Six emerging frontiers
  
  

  Wednesday May 25

  
  
• Needle edging closer to empty
  
• Extreme engineering: pipeline edition
  
  

  Thursday May 26

  
  
• Clean coal: Soot gets another look
  
• Fuel cell: Juice for buses, and laptops?
  
• Wind power: Taking energy from thin air
  
• Auto industry steers course to trim the fat from vehicles
  
• What's fuel cost? Depends on our wages
  
  

  Friday May 27

  
  
• The fuel that's locked in ice
  
• 'Abiotic' petroleum debate rocks on
  
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  Saturday May 28

  
  
• Canada: Energy superpower?
  
• Oil discovery forecasts doomed
  
• Investing in energy after the oil rush
  
• Readers weigh in on oil series