industryterm:oil supplies

  • @ggreenwald: “New Zealand’s largest newspaper, @nzherald, eloquently editorializes in defense of @lorde’s decision to cancel her Tel Aviv concert, in the process obliterating the most common arguments made against the boycott against Israel - things are changing ...”


    http://www.nzherald.co.nz/entertainment/news/article.cfm?c_id=1501119&objectid=11966801

    • Editorial: Lorde’s stand on Israel does her credit
      NZ Herald, le 28 décemnbe 2017

      What rubbish. It is perfectly possible to oppose Jewish settlements on the West Bank, as indeed many Jews do, in Israel and outside, without being guilty of bigotry and prejudice.

      The suggestion Israel should not be singled out when countries such as Russia are guilty of something similar is an argument New Zealanders often heard from defenders of South Africa in the apartheid era. It is the weakest argument a nation’s defenders can make. It says the nation is guilty, but so are others. It is an admission Israel’s settlements are wrong. Not even the Israeli Government endorses them, though it does little to stop them. The further the settlements go and the more entrenched they become, the more difficult a two-state solution will be.

      Sporting and cultural boycotts and campaigns for business disinvestment and international sanctions against Israel are a way of reminding public opinion in Israel the world needs Israel to keep striving for peace in its region.

      Peace almost certainly requires a Palestinian state on the West Bank of the Jordan — one that acknowledges Israel’s right to exist. The alternative is for Israel to survive in a permanent state of siege, a prospect which perhaps too many Israelis now find preferable to a Palestinian state they would not trust. Hence the settlements.

      But unresolved tensions in the Middle East are not simply Israel’s concern. Such tensions impose themselves on the world through wars, threats to oil supplies, nuclear ambitions and terrorism.

      No peace is imaginable without Palestinians being treated fairly, not driven from their homes by bulldozers. Cultural figures such as Lorde are in a privileged position to give that message and New Zealand can be proud of her for doing so.

      #Lorde #Palestine #Boycott #BDS #Boycott_culturel #Nouvelle-Zélande

  • Globes English - Israel buys most oil smuggled from ISIS territory - report - 30/11/2015 - Globes correspondent
    http://www.globes.co.il/en/article.aspx?did=1001084873

    Israel has become the main buyer for oil from ISIS controlled territory, reports “al-Araby al-Jadeed.”

    Kurdish and Turkish smugglers are transporting oil from ISIS controlled territory in Syria and Iraq and selling it to Israel, according to several reports in the Arab and Russian media. An estimated 20,000-40,000 barrels of oil are produced daily in ISIS controlled territory generating $1-1.5 million daily profit for the terrorist organization.

    The oil is extracted from Dir A-Zur in Syria and two fields in Iraq and transported to the Kurdish city of Zakhu in a triangle of land near the borders of Syria, Iraq and Turkey. Israeli and Turkish mediators come to the city and when prices are agreed, the oil is smuggled to the Turkish city of Silop marked as originating from Kurdish regions of Iraq and sold for $15-18 per barrel (WTI and Brent Crude currently sell for $41 and $45 per barrel) to the Israeli mediator, a man in his 50s with dual Greek-Israeli citizenship known as Dr. Farid. He transports the oil via several Turkish ports and then onto other ports, with Israel among the main destinations.

    In August, the “Financial Times” reported that Israel obtained 75% of its oil supplies from Iraqi Kurdistan. More than a third of such exports go through the port of Ceyhan, which the FT describe as a “potential gateway for ISIS-smuggled crude."

  • Improving U.S. oil production reaches milestone in October, agency says
    http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/improving-us-oil-production-reaches-milestone-in-october-agency-says/2013/11/13/dd01db86-4c97-11e3-9890-a1e0997fb0c0_story.html

    The United States produced more crude oil in October than it imported for the first time since early 1995, as domestic shale oil output continued to surge and U.S. consumption of petroleum products remained relatively flat, the Energy Information Administration said Wednesday.

    The trend is expected to continue for another decade as U.S. domestic oil supplies grow and reliance on imports shrinks, easing one of the main sources of pressure on global oil markets.

    The turnaround in U.S. oil fortunes has been rapid. Five years ago, U.S. oil production hit a 62-year low. Since then, domestic production has increased by more than 50 percent.

    #énergie #pétrole #pétrole_de_schiste #Etats-Unis

    • 5 Ways the Fracking Boom Changes Politics
      http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2013/11/5-ways-the-fracking-boom-changes-politics-98984.html?ml=m_b2_2

      - “People predicting a manufacturing renaissance in the United States usually imagine whirring robots or advanced factories turning out wind turbines and solar panels. The real American edge might be in something entirely more mundane: cheap starting materials for plastic bottles and plastic bags.” These may not be the high-tech, high-value jobs Americans long for, but they are jobs nonetheless.
      [...]
      – A total of about 40 senators hail from states that now have significant shale oil and gas prospects. Some represent what might fairly be called America’s petrostates [...]. It doesn’t require a political genius to see that these states’ government representatives will increasingly be defined by their support for that oil and gas: The oil and gas industry made some $73 million in total political contributions in the 2012 election cycle, nearly seven times what it spent in 1990. What do these folks want for their money? If the past is any indication, we’ll see attacks on the Environmental Protection Agency, hostility to climate science and a tendency to subvert other important issues to defend the industry.

      #gaz_de_schiste

  • Sympathy for the devil: Israel’s efforts on behalf of Cairo’s generals
    By Chemi Shalev
    20th of August 2013
    Haaretz
    http://www.haaretz.com/blogs/west-of-eden/.premium-1.542403

    In June 1941, on the eve of the Nazi invasion of the Soviet Union, Winston Churchill famously told his personal secretary John Colville “If Hitler invaded hell, I would at least make a favorable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.” The next day he expressed unequivocal support for his arch-enemy Stalin and dispatched military assistance to beleaguered Moscow.

    This “principle of the lesser evil” that Churchill so pithily expressed has been the guiding principle of much of America’s post-World War II policy. In its name, the U.S. has supported a long line of disgusting dictators and terrible tyrants who were considered to be critical for vital American interests such as combatting Communism and terror or safeguarding oil supplies in the Middle East. Democracy and human rights, in most cases, took a back seat, often for many decades.

    This is the general theme of the Israeli effort to persuade Washington not to cut U.S. military aid to the Cairo regime, despite its transgressions. America and Israel share an overriding interest in preserving the Israeli-Egyptian peace treaty and in preventing Sinai from turning into a launching pad for Al-Qaida attacks, Israel says. Former ambassador to Egypt Eli Shaked told the New York Times on Monday, “We don’t have good guys. It is a situation where you have to choose who is less harmful.”

    • Cette rationalisation israélienne est totalement fausse et repose sur un calendrier contraire aux faits. Elle fait comme si l’option que soutenaient les Américains et les Européens était de faire revenir Morsi et les Frères au pouvoir.

      Les faits sont pourtant connus depuis quelques jours :
      – les Européens et les Américains avaient obtenu un accord des Frères pour lever pacifiquement leurs sit-ins ; pas pour qu’ils reviennent au pouvoir, simplement pour qu’ils arrêtent leurs manifestations et négocient avec le nouveau pouvoir ;
      – on sait que les Israéliens et leurs alliés arabes ont fait pression pour faire capoter cet accord. Les massacres ont commencé à peine quelques heures après que l’envoyé européen a fait part de l’accord des Frères aux militaires.

      La position israélienne présentée ici ne serait valable que dans une situation de « fait accompli », si Israël et les arabes n’avaient pas magouillé avant que la situation soit totalement bloquée. Israël a miné les efforts diplomatiques américains et européens destiné à sortir de la crise ; il est totalement faux de faire comme si Israël n’avait – innocemment – que le choix du pire face à une situation désespérée qui lui est imposée.

  • New pipeline between Bahrain and KSA

    Bahrain aims to secure more oil supplies from Saudi Arabia through a $350 million pipeline set for 2015 completion, a Bahraini energy spokesman said.

    Saudi Arabia has delivered oil to Bahrain for more than 60 years through 38 miles of pipeline. Naji Ahamed, a spokesman for the Bahrain Petroleum Co., said studies were completed on a pipeline that could deliver as much as 450,000 barrels per day.[...]

    The daily capacity is compared with 260,000 bpd in existing capacity, Arab News reports.

    UPI

    Read more: http://www.upi.com/Business_News/Energy-Resources/2013/03/21/Bahrain-to-secure-more-Saudi-oil/UPI-82291363862803/#ixzz2OGKme6KF

  • Military thinktank urges US to cut oil use
    guardian.co.uk
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/nov/02/military-thinktank-us-oil?intcmp=122

    An influential military thinktank is urging America to cut its oil use by 30% over the next decade, as a national security imperative.

    In its report, the Military Advisory Board said the US should aim to drastically reduce its energy imports over the next decade – or else risk exposing the economy to devastating oil price shocks.

    A disruption in oil supplies anywhere in the world will drive up the price of oil, it said. “We really can’t differentiate in a realistic way between oil from Venezuela or Iran or Canada,” said McGinn.

    Since the board’s first report, the Pentagon has embarked on an ambitious project to reduce its own use of energy. The US navy is working to get half of its energy from nuclear and renewable fuels by 2020. The army wants to get 25% of its energy from renewables by 2025. The air force has been conducting test flights of its aircraft on a mix of conventional and biofuels, and the marine corps has been testing small solar power facilities in the combat zones of Afghanistan.

    #énergie #armée #US