> Some of the the largest oil fields currently known were only discovered in the past decade or two. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1088739/global-oil-dis

> Some of the the largest oil fields currently known were only discovered in the past decade or two. https://www.statista.com/statistics/1088739/global-oil-discovery-volume/ https://www.statista.com/statistics/1088739/global-oil-disco... Interesting I see an opposite trend but that's a 7 year window. AFAIK discoveries are slowing and the general trend is for newly discovered fields to have lower returns on energy.