Geopolitics – Aug 14
Energy: Europe’s escape routes from Moscow
Energy-hungry Turkey drilling for more oil
Iranian president replaces oil and industry ministers
Geopolitics & Military
Geopolitics – Aug 11
Canada uses military might in Arctic scramble
Chavez tour: oil & gas, gas & oil
Cold snap prompts Chile to seek gas deal with old foe Bolivia
Oil producers – Aug 7
Struggle for Iraq’s oil as Kurds open doors to foreign investors
Power cuts worsen as Iraqi grid nears collapse
Chávez taps oil wealth to build socialism
Report: Venezuelan oil subsidies to Cuba top $3 billion
Oil & geopolitics – Aug 3
Review: Linda McQuaig’s It’s the Crude, Dude
Kazakhstan turns the screw on foreign investors
Good news from Baghdad at last: the oil law has stalled
United States – Aug 3
Kelpie Wilson: Paying the peak oil power bill
NY Times: An incomplete energy bill
US Army War College: America’s energy security policy: goals for 2025
Energy sect’y Bodman: Oil price ‘threatens US economy’
Green China and young China (2)
Environmental protection needs to pay attention to issues of culture and ethics, says Pan Yue. In the concluding part of his two-part essay, Pan calls on youth to step forward and embrace idealism once again.
Green China and young China (1)
We [in China] are widely recognised as having achieved an economic miracle, but we have paid an enormous price. Now is the time for a fair and sustainable model of growth.
(Pan Yue is deputy director of China’s State Environmental Protection Administration)
Tensions around North Pole hydrocarbons raise the specter of new (bitter) Cold War.
The technological problems of drafting arctic oil and gas into human service have not even been solved, the ecological fallout of this course of action hardly addressed, but already huge sums of money are committed for grabbing control and potential revenues.
Russia – Aug 2
Russia cuts August Black Sea crude exports, maintains Baltic
Pay $456m now or we cut your gas, Gazprom warns Belarus
Russia plants flag on North Pole seabed
Gazprom hopes for major Arctic hydrocarbon discoveries
Oil & geopolitics – July 28
Russia leads race for North Pole oil
Did guerrillas strike at the heart of Mexico’s oil industry? Or maybe not?
Analysis: Oil part of large Iraq conundrum
Geopolitics and oil – July 26
Falling dollar puts pressure on Opec
Ed Koch:
Is there a viable solution to our OPEC dilemma?
Russia and France play the energy game
If Iran provokes an energy crisis: modeling the problem in a war game
Oil and geopolitics – July 16
Iran asks Japan to pay for oil with yen, not dollars
Cheney pushes Bush to act on Iran
Energising Russia’s geopolitical goals
Guide to the struggle over Iraq’s oil
