industryterm:oil interest

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The National 2009 / Déclarations de l’émir du Qatar sur un gazoduc Qatar-Turquie via l’Irak et la Syrie
►http://www.thenational.ae/business/energy/qatar-seeks-gas-pipeline-to-turkey#full

The Guardian / Nafeez Ahmed 2013
Syria intervention plan fueled by oil interests, not chemical weapon concern
►http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/30/syria-chemical-attack-war-intervention-oil-gas-energy-pipelines

RAND Corporation 2008
►http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/monographs/2008/RAND_MG738.pdf

Divide and Rule focuses on exploiting fault lines between the various Salafi-jihadist groups to turn them against each other and dissipate their energy on internal conflicts. This strategy relies heavily on covert action, information operations (IO), unconventional warfare, and support to indigenous security forces... the United States and its local allies could use the nationalist jihadists to launch proxy IO campaigns to discredit the transnational jihadists in the eyes of the local populace... US leaders could also choose to capitalize on the ’Sustained Shia-Sunni Conflict’ trajectory by taking the side of the conservative Sunni regimes against Shiite empowerment movements in the Muslim world.... possibly supporting authoritative Sunni governments against a continuingly hostile Iran.

#pipelineistan #Syrie

Oil drives our Israel policy: New government documents reveal a very different history of America and the Middle East - Salon.com
▻http://www.salon.com/2016/01/04/oil_drives_our_israel_policy_new_government_documents_reveal_a_very_different

As the question of partition on Palestine assumed greater impor­tance in Washington, another theme dominated, as it still does. This was the claim that U.S. policymakers were faced with the choice of protect­ing U.S. oil interests or deferring to partisans of partition and, later, Jewish statehood. The question became: Oil or Israel? This formula erred, as I will explain in the following chapters. The choice facing policymakers was not oil versus Israel but rather oil and Israel. In the years that followed, it was oil and Israel versus reform and revolution in the Arab world.

Author : Putin to blame for #MH17 shootdown, but Dutch oil interests will thwart any prosecution
▻http://www.kyivpost.com/content/ukraine/author-putin-to-blame-for-mh17-shootdown-but-dutch-oil-interests-will-thwa

But Koshiw says that the Dutch authorities, who are leading the international investigation into the MH17 tragedy at the Ukrainian government’s behest, won’t insist on prosecuting Putin for war crimes because of the economic interests they share with Russia.

“For the Dutch, economic relations with Russia are a number one priority,” he said. “They’re not going to go after Putin - they just want to go after the crew of the Buk.”

“The Dutch have a company that everybody knows, called Royal Dutch Shell, and Russia has some projects that Shell could make lots of money from,” Koshiw says.

Royal Dutch Shell is teaming up with Russian Gazprom on several projects despite Western sanction on Russia, and at the beginning of 2015 they signed a memorandum to build two new Nord Stream gas pipelines under the Baltic Sea.

“Shell is the Netherlands’ number one company, so they will be very careful in attacking Putin,” Koshiw explained. “They have an important relationship with Gazprom, and that’s key.”

Nouveau livre, uniquement à charge (mais apparemment, c’est l’usage dans ce domaine), et entrée d’une nouvelle idée : l’enquête néerlandaise ne chargera(it) pas trop la Russie pour préserver les intérêts pétrolier de Shell.

Syria intervention plans fuelled by oil interests, not chemical weapon concerns | Nafeez Ahmed | Environment | theguardian.com
►http://www.theguardian.com/environment/earth-insight/2013/aug/30/syria-chemical-attack-war-intervention-oil-gas-energy-pipelines

In 2009 - the same year former French foreign minister Dumas alleges the British began planning operations in Syria - Assad refused to sign a proposed agreement with Qatar that would run a pipeline from the latter’s North field, contiguous with Iran’s South Pars field, through Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Syria and on to Turkey, with a view to supply European markets - albeit crucially bypassing Russia. Assad’s rationale was “to protect the interests of [his] Russian ally, which is Europe’s top supplier of natural gas.”

Instead, the following year, Assad pursued negotiations for an alternative $10 billion pipeline plan with Iran, across Iraq to Syria, that would also potentially allow Iran to supply gas to Europe from its South Pars field shared with Qatar. The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) for the project was signed in July 2012 - just as Syria’s civil war was spreading to Damascus and Aleppo - and earlier this year Iraq signed a framework agreement for construction of the gas pipelines.

The Iran-Iraq-Syria pipeline plan was a “direct slap in the face” to Qatar’s plans. No wonder Saudi Prince Bandar bin Sultan, in a failed attempt to bribe Russia to switch sides, told President Vladmir Putin that “whatever regime comes after” Assad, it will be “completely” in Saudi Arabia’s hands and will “not sign any agreement allowing any Gulf country to transport its gas across Syria to Europe and compete with Russian gas exports”, according to diplomatic sources. When Putin refused, the Prince vowed military action.

It would seem that contradictory self-serving Saudi and Qatari oil interests are pulling the strings of an equally self-serving oil-focused US policy in Syria, if not the wider region. It is this - the problem of establishing a pliable opposition which the US and its oil allies feel confident will play ball, pipeline-style, in a post-Assad Syria - that will determine the nature of any prospective intervention: not concern for Syrian life.

#Syrie #Russie #Arabie_saoudite #Iran #Europe #Bandar #gazoducs #pipelines