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Trump’s War of Words With Iran Shines Spotlight on Vital Oil Route
▻https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-07-23/trump-war-of-words-with-iran-shines-spotlight-on-vital-oil-route

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The war of words between U.S. President Donald Trump and his counterpart in Iran over oil exports and sanctions is shining a spotlight on the narrow, twisting conduit for about 30 percent of the world’s seaborne-traded crude.

The Middle East’s biggest oil exporters rely on the #Strait_of_Hormuz, the passage linking the Persian Gulf with global waterways, for the vast majority of their crude shipments — some 17.5 million barrels a day.

Should a regional conflict block that bottleneck, three of the largest Gulf Arab crude producers have pipeline networks that would potentially enable them to export as much as 4.1 million barrels via alternative outlets, according to Bloomberg calculations. Even so, this amount of oil, if sent by pipeline, would be less than a quarter of the total that typically sails on tankers through Hormuz.

Where rich countries are grabbing up land around the world
►http://knowmore.washingtonpost.com/2015/05/19/where-rich-countries-are-grabbing-up-land-around-the-world

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Researchers at Lund University in Sweden found that most of the world’s countries had bought or sold land internationally as of 2012 – 126 of the 195 countries recognized by the UN, according to their report. But the trade is dominated by just a few players, namely China, the U.K. and the U.S.

The global land trade also appears to reflect the uneven power relationship between the rich and the poor. With a few notable exceptions, the more developed countries of North America and Europe, Asia’s emerging economies, and the oil exporters of the Middle East are the ones buying up land, while the countries selling land are poorer nations in Africa, South America, Southeast Asia and Eastern Europe.

▻http://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/1748-9326/9/11/114006/pdf

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Middle East Oil Outlook Unsettled Amid Security Vacuum | Chatham House

▻http://www.chathamhouse.org//node/16806

It will be a tough year for Middle East oil exporters. Depressed oil prices, emboldened jihadi groups and the uncertain outcome of political successions top the list for geopolitical upsets in the Middle East in 2015.

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Several states are weakened by insurgencies and civil wars, while their neighbours try to manage the spill over. In Libya, Syria and Iraq the central states do not exercise sovereign control over the territory, including some of its oil facilities and export infrastructure.

Libya’s oil exports struggled in 2014 through seven months of civil war but proved surprisingly resilient. Now, as Islamist, pro-government and anti-government forces battle to control the eastern oil facilities, it is unlikely that Libya’s exports will continue to be spared.

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