Hong Kong oil tanker refuses to visit Basra due to terror threat
The crew of a Hong Kong-registered oil tanker refused to dock in the Iraqi oil terminal of Basra out of fears of terror attacks, the company that owns the ship said Tuesday.
Geopolitics & Military
US: Postponement of the November election?
The Bush administration has asked for legislation enabling it to postpone the November election as a result of a terror attack.
U.S. General Proposes Help in ‘monitoring’ Unstable West Africa Oil Gulf
A top U.S. military commander proposed American help Monday in monitoring West Africa’s Gulf of Guinea to secure an unstable region that holds as much as 10 percent of the world’s oil reserves
Oil Kamikaze
In the past two months no fewer than a dozen people in Iraq and Saudi Arabia demonstrated in three separate incidents their willingness to die for the cause of hurting the U.S economy in what appears to be a new phase in the war on terror.
Oil driving US’ move on Sudan
Darfur, the international community unanimously agrees, is “the worst humanitarian crisis of our time”.
Canada to map Beaufort Sea
Low-level tensions between Canada and the United States over sovereignty of an offshore sliver in the Beaufort Sea are moving from simmer to boil.
Kremlin prepares to seize Yukos’s oil
The battle for control of Yukos, the Russian oil giant, has taken a fresh twist after it emerged that the country’s authorities have drawn up secret plans to seize control of the group’s oil.
Philippines asks China to ‘desist’ from provocative acts in Spratlys
The Philippines called on China on Saturday to “desist” from provocative actions in the disputed Spratly islands region after reports a Chinese company was exploring for oil and gas near the area.
Brinkmanship In The South Pacific
I would venture to speculate that the coming together of the strongest armada in history has more to do with oil and natural gas and nothing to do with Taiwan.
America stuck in Iran policy
Whoever wins this November’s presidential elections, the United States faces an urgent question that the Bush administration has not resolved: What is America’s strategy for coping with the rising power of Iran?
Powell on Iran Nuclear Program
The Iranians “have been put on notice,” says Secretary of State Powell, “that the international community is expecting them to answer its questions and to respond fully.”
Iraq admits oil output struggles to continue; comes as CPA hands over power
Iraq’s oil production is expected to remain constrained for the next one to two years by ongoing attacks against oil infrastructure, despite the US-led Coalition Provisional Authority’s (CPA) transfer of power to an interim Iraqi government, interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi said June 28.
