But the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) forecasts that over the next 30 years another 14 billion-24 billion barrels of the black stuff will be recovered.There may yet be new finds: Statoil, Norway's national oil firm, has made two big discoveries in its part of the North Sea in the past year.
He forecasts that in the next 10 or 15 years, urban positioning technologies will have enhanced messaging services to the extent that you'll be able to text the attractive stranger at the bar simply by pointing your phone at them.
IDC forecasts that within the next few years the number of homes with installed multiple device networks will approach 12 million, or about 12% of U.S. households, up from only 1.9 million homes by the end of this year.
The N.I.E., I was told, includes a forecast that the next generation of political leaders is likely to be — and to be seen by Afghans — as corrupt.
That's down from 47.3percentt annual growth in the previous quarter, and JD.com is forecasting that the next quarter will continue to see slowing growth.
The figures from Bloomberg forecast that over the next five years the country will lose at least 1 gigawatt of renewable energy generation – enough to power 660,000 homes.
Foreign carmakers already have about half the American market, and analysts forecast that within the next five years they will build more cars here than Detroit's automakers.
In contrast, many economists forecast that over the next few years America's saving rate will rise to at least 6% as consumers are forced to trim their debts.Japan's high rate of saving used to be the main reason for its large current-account surplus.
But it still faces challenges in reaching that forecast over the next few months.
Analyst Robin Savage at Collins Stewart said: It is unusual for management to warn the market 13 trading days before its 2009 results presentation that market forecasts for the next year are too low.
He forecasts that the next six to 12 months "will really tell the fate of housing.
