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Vietnam halts South China Sea oil drilling project under pressure from Beijing
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southchinasea-vietnam/vietnam-scraps-south-china-sea-oil-drilling-project-under-pressure-from-bei

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Vietnam has halted an oil drilling project in the “Red Emperor” block off its southeastern coast licensed to Spanish energy firm #Repsol following pressure from China, three sources with direct knowledge of the situation told Reuters on Friday.

It would be the second time in less than a year that Vietnam has had to suspend a major oil development in the busy #South_China_Sea waterway under pressure from China.
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#Red_Emperor, known in Vietnamese as the #Ca_Rong_Do field, is part of Block 07/03 in the #Nam_Con_Son basin, 440 km (273 miles) off the coast of Vietnam’s southern city of Vung Tau.

The $1-billion field of moderate size by international standards is seen as a key asset to help slow the decline of Vietnam’s stalling oil and gas production.

But the block lies near the U-shaped “#nine-dash_line ” that marks the vast area that China claims in the sea and overlaps what it says are its own oil concessions.

Located in waters around 350 metres (1,148 ft) deep, it is considered to be profitable from around $60 per barrel. Current Brent crude oil prices are almost $70 per barrel.

On est très très bas, dans la #mer_de_Chine_méridionale, mais trop proche de la #ligne_en_neuf_traits …

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#langue_de_bœuf #Đường_lưỡi_bò

#Cá_Rồng_Đỏ
cf. ▻https://seenthis.net/messages/617802 (avec autre carte)

China urges halt to oil drilling in disputed South China Sea
▻https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southchinasea-china-vietnam-idUSKBN1AA13I

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China’s Foreign Ministry has urged a halt to oil drilling in a disputed part of the South China Sea, where Spanish oil company Repsol had been operating in cooperation with Vietnam.

Drilling began in mid-June in Vietnam’s Block 136/3, which is licensed to Vietnam’s state oil firm, Spain’s Repsol and Mubadala Development Co of the United Arab Emirates.

The block lies inside the U-shaped ’#nine-dash_line ’ that marks the vast area that China claims in the sea and overlaps what it says are its own oil concessions.

Foreign Ministry spokesman Lu Kang said China had indisputable sovereignty over the Spratly Islands, which China calls the Nansha islands, and jurisdiction over the relevant waters and seabed.

Les Canaries en guerre contre des forages pétroliers
▻http://www.lemonde.fr/planete/article/2014/11/22/les-canaries-en-guerre-contre-des-forages-petroliers_4527711_3244.html

La colère gronde aux Canaries contre la société pétrolière espagnole Repsol qui a commencé, mardi 18 novembre, à sonder des fonds marins au large des côtes de l’archipel, afin de rechercher des hydrocarbures. Pendant des mois, le gouvernement régional, les habitants et les organisations écologistes ont tenté en vain de faire stopper ce projet soutenu par Madrid qui menace les perles des Canaries, Lanzarote et Fuerteventura.

Le début des opérations a été houleux. Le navire Artic-Sunrise, dépêché par Greenpeace pour protester contre les forages exploratoires, a été mis sous séquestre par l’Espagne, qui demande une caution de 50 000 euros pour lui permettre de reprendre la mer. Il avait tenté de s’approcher du Rowan-Renaissance, le bateau de Repsol qui effectue les sondages.

#pétrole #écologie #environnement #tourisme
#paywall :( mais :)

Îles Canaries : l’armée espagnole défend violemment les intérêts pétroliers aux dépens de la volonté citoyenne

Lors d’une action non-violente menée en Espagne au large des îles Canaries ce matin, des bateaux de la marine espagnole se sont violemment interposés entre les zodiacs de Greenpeace et un navire de forage pétrolier de l’entreprise Repsol. Une activiste de Greenpeace a été hospitalisée et un autre militant légèrement blessé.
Suite à cette action, L’Arctic Sunrise a été mis sous séquestre mardi à Arrecife (Lanzarote – Canaries) par les autorités espagnoles.

Sauf qu’on n’en sait pas beaucoup plus sur la mobilisation des habitants.

First major tar sands oil shipment arrives in Europe amid protests | Environment | The Guardian
►http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/jun/06/first-tar-sands-oil-shipment-arrives-in-europe-amid-protests

A cargo believed to be Europe’s first major shipment of tar sands oil arrived in Spain this week, as European policymakers proposed scrapping the requirement that such oil be labeled as more polluting than other forms of crude.

570,000 barrels of Western Canada Select heavy blend crude, originally from Canada, arrived in Spain’s port of Bilbao in the middle of this week, said a spokesman for Repsol.

The shipment, which he said was a first for the Spanish oil and gas company, is part of a pilot project to test the capacity of its refineries to process the heavy grade crude.

“We’re trying to give a future for oil refining in Europe, where many refineries have been shutting down in recent years,” he said. “We share environmental concerns but we think the solution is in efficiency and technology.”

Producing oil from tar sands generates higher greenhouse gas emissions than conventional oil. It has also been criticised for the amount of water needed to extract it.

In anticipation of the shipment, Spanish environmentalists held a protest at the port of Bilbao last week. Mariano González of Ecologists in Action said "this was a good occasion to raise awareness about what’s happening and express our disapproval.

The group is planning to continue its protests. “That was just our first action in coordinating a rejection of the entry of this type of oil into Europe,” he told the Guardian.

The fact that this week’s cargo is a test shipment, he said, gave a sense of urgency. “It’s likely that if the EU doesn’t do something, tar sands oil will start to arrive in massive quantities to Europe.”

#sables_bitumineux

#Perenco étend son exploitation pétrolière en Amazonie péruvienne
▻http://multinationales.org/Perenco-etend-son-exploitation

Sous la pression d’investisseurs éthiques, l’entreprise pétrolière Repsol a décidé de se retirer d’une concession pétrolière en Amazonie péruvienne, le « lot 39 ». En cause ? La présence de peuples indigènes en isolement volontaire. Le repreneur moins scrupuleux du lot 39 n’est autre que la firme franco-britannique Perenco, déjà très présente dans la région. En décembre dernier, elle a commencé à extraire du pétrole de la concession voisine, le « lot 67 ». Quelques jours plus tard, les communautés locales (...)

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Bolivia nationalises electrical grid
►http://www.aljazeera.com/news/americas/2012/05/20125122339862111.html

President Evo Morales has announced that his government is completing the nationalisation of Bolivia’s electricity sector by seizing control of its main power grid from a Spanish-owned company.

Morales on Tuesday took advantage of the symbolism of May Day, the international day of the worker, to order troops to occupy installations of the company, a subsidiary of Red Electrica Corporacion SA.

The president’s placing of another of what he deems basic services under state control comes as neighbouring Argentina moves to take control of the country’s oil company, YPF, from the Spanish energy company Repsol SA, which had held a majority interest.

Spain’s ambassador to Bolivia, Ramon Santos, told reporters the electric grid takeover “is sending a negative message that generates distrust”.

Morales did not say how much Red Electric would be compensated, but the nationalisation decree says the state would negotiate an indemnisation fee.

Morales said only $81m had been invested in the grid since it was privatized in 1997.

The government, meanwhile, “invested $220m in generation and others profited. For that reason, brothers and sisters, we have decided to nationalise electricity transmission,” he said.