With this I can agree. According to those in the industry, production is still on that uptrend.
https://www.google.com/amp/s/spectrum.ieee.org/energy/fossil-fuels/peak-oil-specimen-case-apocalypic-thinking.amp.html
It may peak at some point in the future, but any claim that it has occurred in past, is refuted by the actual data.
I think that article combines conventional and non-conventional production. If you read Hubbert's paper, you will see that he specifically refers to the former. For the latter, he gives only estimates because there were fewer details about them back in the 1950s. See for yourself:
https://web.archive.org/web/20080527233843/http://www.hubbertpeak.com/hubbert/1956/1956.pdfIn short, the increase is attributed to tight oil needed to make up for conventional production. That doesn't disprove peak oil but prove it: at some point one source will peak in production and has to be replaced by another.
This is also happening on a global scale, but this time revealing another aspect of the scientific phenomenon: the effects of peak oil take place even before production peaks. That is, if demand is high enough, then production won't be able to catch up and other sources will be needed:
https://www.postcarbon.org/new-u-s-record-level-oil-production-peak-oil-theory-disproven-not/And Hubbert predicted that, too. He stated in 1976 that because of the previous oil crunch peak oil was pushed by around a decade, leading to a peak in conventional production after 1995 + 10:
The IEA believed the same in its 2010 report:
https://www.iea.org/reports/world-energy-outlook-2010Hubbert was off by around five years because conventional production still recovered in 2011-2012, and then went down after.
What is more important than that is demand. Back in 2006, the IEA predicted that demand would reach 115 Mbd by 2015 thanks to a robust global economy, and that oil producers would easily meet that because there's no peak oil, only above-ground problems. In 2008, a global financial crash led to weak global economic growth across a decade and demand that's barely reaching 100 Mbd today. And to meet even that demand we still need unconventional production.
Thus, we avoided one of the effects of peak oil--a resource crunch--that would have led to a global economic crash because of soaring debt which led to the 2008 crash. Ironically, part of that debt went to the oil industry which needed increasing amounts of money to get more expensive oil. That's why according to the BIS they now have accumulated debts of at least $2.5 trillion, and in order to pay only $500 billion of that, they need oil prices to go up to around $80. Worse, they have to borrow more because capital expenditures have been going up, and to play for that plus the remaining $2 trillion in debt, oil prices have to go up even more.
Guess what happens when oil prices go up.
Finally, peak oil took place many times in the past:
http://theoildrum.com/node/5576