Tag: Geopolitics & Military
Peak Oil Review – Sept 1
By Tom Whipple, ASPO-USA
A weekly review including: Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East & North Africa, Ukraine, Quote of the Week, The Briefs
Peak Oil Review – Aug 25
By Tom Whipple, ASPO-USA
A weekly review including: Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East & North Africa, Ukraine, Quote of the Week, The Briefs.
Peak Oil Review – Aug 18
By Tom Whipple, ASPO-USA
A weekly review including: Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East & North Africa, China, Ukraine, Quote of the Week, The Briefs.
Peak Oil Review – Aug 11
By Tom Whipple, ASPO-USA
A weekly review including: Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East & North Africa, China, Ukraine, The Briefs.
Peak Oil Review – July 28
By Tom Whipple, ASPO-USA
A weekly review including Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East & North Africa, Ukraine, Quote of the Week, The Briefs.
Peak Oil Review – July 21
By Tom Whipple, ASPO-USA
A weekly review including: Oil and the Global Economy, The Middle East & North Africa, Ukraine, Quote of the Week, The Briefs.
Peak Oil Notes – July 17
By Tom Whipple, ASPO-USA
After falling steadily for three weeks, New York oil futures reversed on Wednesday as US crude stocks dropped and China reported some better economic numbers.
Natural Gas Discoveries Fueling Gaza Crisis?
By Nafeez Ahmed, The Guardian Earth Insights blog
Since the discovery of oil and gas in the Occupied Territories, resource competition has increasingly been at the heart of the conflict...
Iraq on the Precipice
By Tom Whipple, Falls Church News-Press
The daily newspapers are now full of stories predicting that Iraq, as we know it, will soon disintegrate into three or more warring states.
Energy Crunch: Turmoil in Iraq
By Energy Crunch staff, New Economics Foundation
The possibility of a new global energy shock moved closer this week as ISIS forces made major territorial gains in Iraq, the speed of events taking world leaders by surprise.
Banking on Iraq
By Matt Mushalik, Crude Oil Peak
Given the ethnic turmoil in Iraq triggered by ISIL’s recent seizure of towns in Iraq’s North and West it is uncertain how this will impact on oil production in the Shia controlled South, from where the bulk of Iraq’s oil exports come from.