Nazarbayev Considers Oil Pipeline to Persian Gulf Via Iran
Kazakhstan would like to construct a pipeline through Iran to the Persian Gulf as the main outlet for its natural resources, the country’s president said.
Geopolitics & Military
Asia’s surging energy demand
WHEN Hu Jintao, the president of China, went half way round the world in February to see President Omar Bongo of Gabon, he was not merely paying a courtesy visit to the African ruler of a population one-thousandth the size of China’s. Hu was after oil.
Terrorists are now targeting Saudi Arabia’s oil infrastructure. How bad could things get?
NOT SO long ago, a certain well-known international figure penned a heart-felt speech he called his “Letter to the American People”. In it, he said: “You steal our wealth and oil at paltry prices because of your international influence and military threats. This theft is indeed the biggest theft ever witnessed by mankind in the history of the world.” The author was Osama bin Laden.
Iraq War Colonial and About Oil, Says Turki
The US-led invasion of Iraq was a colonial war and there were some in the United States who saw it as a means of getting their hands on Iraqi oil, Prince Turki Al-Faisal was quoted as saying yesterday.
Jurassic Park, Pseudo-events, and Prisons: The fallout from Abu Ghraib Part One
Some interesting realpolitik analysis and some philosophising against a peak oil back drop from ex-military man Stan Goff.
Oils ain’t just oils, they’re to die for
The world can descend into hell to fight over oil, or we can start now in reducing our reliance on it. We can live in peace with less oil, or we can die in war to try to maintain our lifestyle for a little.
Dick Cheney, Peak Oil and the Final Count Down
In the April 2004 issue of the magazine the Middle East I found a statement that Vice- President Dick Cheney had made in a speech at the London Institute of Petroleum Autumn lunch in 1999 when he was Chairman of Halliburton. A key passage from his speech was: “That means by 2010 we will need on the order of an additional fifty million barrels a day.”
Russia’s unpleasant future
As soon as natural resources start running out or some alternative energy sources come up, Russia will start slipping down into a bottomless precipice and will inevitably collapse into small territories.
Pipe attack ‘slows Iraq oil flow’
A suspected sabotage attack on an Iraqi oil pipeline has caused a significant drop in exports, reports say.
Saudi fields are vital to world’s oil supply
Saudi Arabia is considered the world’s lone indispensable oil supplier. But is it a reliable one?
The Oil Crunch
New York Times columnist Paul Krugman on peak oil.
The fall of the House of Saud.
Americans have long considered Saudi Arabia the one constant in the Arab Middle East–a source of cheap oil, political stability, and lucrative business relationships. But the country is run by an increasingly dysfunctional royal family that has been funding militant Islamic movements abroad in an attempt to protect itself from them at home.