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BOSTON Aug 9 (Reuters) - Matthew Simmons, who argued the world was rapidly approaching peak oil production capacity and predicted that BP Plc would be driven bankrupt, died at his home in North Haven, Maine, the energy research group he founded said on Monday.
Matthew Simmons was a prominent energy investment banker, peak oil proponent, founder of the Ocean Energy Institute, and author of Twilight in the Desert: The Coming Saudi Oil Shock and the World Economy. According to Reuters, he died from a heart attack yesterday at age 67. Some of his opinions and predictions about the BP oil spill were controversial.
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