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Map of Principle Pipelines to Europe:

Leadership of US Azerbaijan Chamber of Commerce, Map of Major Eurasian oil Pipelines PDF Posted by morris108 on August 18, 2008

How important is African oil?

General Articles

Cool reception for Cheney in Azerbaijan PDF By: Various on: 05.09.2008

Somalia for Dummies PDF January 02, 2007 - First, Somalia is blessed or cursed, depending on your perspective, with abundant natural resources of oil, uranium, and natural gas. Additionally it has military strategic value as its coastal town of Berbera is situated on the Mideast oil route and is the site of a US naval base, a base unknown by most Americans.

$20bn gas project seized by Russia PDF Terry Macalister, Tom Parfitt in Moscow December 12, 2006

Putin's new secret weapon PDF Tom McGhie, Mail on Sunday 23 November 2006

Russia Snubs U.S., Redirects Gas Flow to Europe PDF — 25.09.2006 - A plan to give Europe access to a substantial amount of natural gas from the giant Shtokman field originally earmarked for the U.S. market is a direct consequence of U.S. policy toward Russia on WTO membership and sanctions on Russian defense exports, Russian newspapers reported on Monday, Sept. 25, 2006.

Chad expels oil firms Chevron and Petronas PDF 26/08/2006

Russia spins global energy spider's web PDF By W Joseph Stroupe Aug 25, 2006

Ecuadorean Government To Cancel Contract With Occidental Petroleum Company (OXY) PDF

More trouble for Bush: Bolivia Military Occupy Oil and Gas Fields PDF By: fromPortugal on: 01.05.2006

Chavez begins turning off US oil taps after inking deal with India PDF April 18, 2006

Venezuela takes over two oil fields PDF By: Aljazeera on: 04.04.2006

China Rushes to Complete $100B Deal With Iran PDF By Peter S. Goodman Washington Post Foreign Service Friday, February 17, 2006

What the Iran 'nuclear issue' is really about PDF By Chris Cook

Petro Warfare Begins PDF By: Charles Mackay on: 23.01.2006

Russia shows its Power: A hard lesson for Ukraine and a warning for Europe PDF By: fromP?rtugal on: 31.12.2005

Oil Wars: China, Russia scores big against US in Central Asia PDF By: fromP?rtugal on: 20.12.2005

Kremlin Buys Back Power PDF By Martin Walker 9-28-5 - the Russian state is regaining a strategic asset and building a mega-sized energy group that can compete directly with the giants like Exxon, Shell and BP.

Energy Information PDF 300 Miles to the gallon

Chavez Frias: Venezuela and China advance in strategic economic alliance PDF

Killing the dollar in Iran PDF By Toni Straka

Venezuelan crude oil shipment nears port PDF - Aug. 19, 2005 A ship carrying 930,000 barrels of Venezuelan crude oil reached Uruguayan waters Thursday, part of a series of planned ''solidarity'' shipments sent by Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez.

Iran, Venezuela discuss oil embargo PDF Aug. 19, 2005

Oil Fields Are Refilling... Naturally - Sometimes Rapidly PDF

U.S. deployed 2000 troops to oil rich Mauritania in June PDF By: AKI on: 04.08.2005

Oil Shock PDF Whiskey & Gunpowder August 2nd, 2005 by Sean Brodrick

SPEAKING FREELY Oil for dollars, and dollars for US deficit By Richard Benson Apr 9, 2005

The Bush Regime’s Greatest Fear: A New Russian Based OPEC and a Gold-Backed Ruble; Capitol City Esco

Chavez to suspend oil exports to US in case of assassination attempt 02-20-2005, 21h42

VENEZUELA: Cutting An Oil Artery

One attempt to attack Iran or Venezuela could bring on a world nuclear war...

Venezuela's Chavez Considers Sale of 8 U.S. Refineries

New Pentagon Vision Transforms War Agenda by Bruce K. Gagnon Global Network Space www.globalresearch.ca 6 January 2005 - Barnett argues that the days of arms talks and international treaties are over. "There is no secret where we are going," he says as he calls for a "new ordering principle" at the Department of Defense (DoD).

Venezuela And China Sign Oil Deal BBC News 12-30-4

China Backs Iran Against The Great Satan Copyright Joe Vialls, 22 December 2004 - Combine China's recent Iranian energy mega-deal with Vladimir Putin's new strategic coalition, which includes nuclear-capable Brazil, and it rapidly becomes clear that New York's "Fortress Americas" fallback initiative is already dead in the water

Mounting evidence of US destabilisation of Sudan By Brian Smith 19 November 2004 - Chevron estimated “Sudan had more oil than Iran and Saudi Arabia together.”

THE END OF THE AGE OF OIL By David Goodstein

China, Iran sign biggest oil & gas deal www.chinaview.cn 2004-10-30 - Under a memorandum of understanding signed Thursday, Sinopec Group will buy 250 million tons of liquefied natural gas over 30 years from Iran and develop the giant Yadavaran field. Iran is also committed to export 150,000 barrels per day of crude oil to China for 25 years at market prices after commissioning of the field.

OPEC Has Already Turned to the Euro GoldMoney Alert - 18 February 2004 - Note that the price of crude oil in terms of euros is essentially unchanged throughout this 3-year period.

War in Iraq, 'petro-dollar' and the challenge by euro Topic Iraq Posted on 2004-04-30 - America practically borrows today from the entire world without keeping reserves of any other currency.

Peak Oil - It is crucial to note that OPEC peaks last, with a crossover of dominance point around 2008. The rest of the world has already peaked.

Life After The Oil Crash - The situation is so dire that even George W. Bush's Energy Adviser, Matthew Simmons, has acknowledged that "The situation is desperate. This is the world's biggest serious question."

OPEC has for all practical purposes already turned to pricing oil in euros 19.02.2004 - It has been suggested that OPEC may begin pricing crude oil in terms of the euro, and further, that OPEC may actually begin invoicing its crude oil exports in terms of euros.

Power struggle over oil 29 January 2004 - But European oil sources suspect that the slowdown imposed on Russian oil exports through the strait is part of an effort by the Turkish government to reduce such traffic over time because it will compete with the US-backed pipeline being laid from the oilfields outside Baku in Azerbaijan, through Tbilisi, Georgia, to Turkey's loading terminal at Ceyhan on the Mediterranean.

US anger at Japan's oilfield deal 20.02.2004 [This is going to interfere with their planned invasion of Iran after the elections. -ed.]

The New 'Great Game' by LUTZ KLEVEMAN - The most tyrannical of Washington's new allies is Islom Karimov, the ex-Communist dictator of Uzbekistan, who allowed US troops to set up a large and permanent military base on Uzbek soil during the Afghan campaign in late 2001. Ever since, the Bush Administration has turned a blind eye to the Karimov regime's brutal suppression of opposition and Islamic groups. "Such people must be shot in the head. If necessary, I will shoot them myself," Karimov once famously told his rubber-stamp Parliament. [Meet the new Saddam Hussein. -ed.]

Bush-Cheney Energy Strategy: Procuring the Rest of the World's Oil PDF By Michael Klare - When first assuming office in early 2001, President George W. Bush's top foreign policy priority was not to prevent terrorism or to curb the spread of weapons of mass destruction—or any of the other goals he espoused later that year following the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. Rather, it was to increase the flow of petroleum from suppliers abroad to U.S. markets.

Russia upstages U.S. in Caspian oil game By Vladimir Radyuhin - MOSCOW, JAN. 10. Russia has stolen a march on the United States in the race for control of Caspian oil, winning long-term commitment from Kazakhstan to use Russian pipelines for exporting its hydrocarbons to Europe.

EATING FOSSIL FUELS by Dale Allen Pfeiffer - Presently, only two nations on the planet are major exporters of grain: the United States and Canada.[41] By 2025, it is expected that the U.S. will cease to be a food exporter due to domestic demand. The impact on the U.S. economy could be devastating, as food exports earn $40 billion for the U.S. annually. More importantly, millions of people around the world could starve to death without U.S. food exports.[42]

Arrest opens way for Russian state to renationalise Yukos Conal Walsh in Moscow Sunday November 2, 2003 - Khodorkovsky's one-third stake in the oil giant could be forfeited to the government if he is convicted of conspiring in fraud with Platon Lebedev, another Yukos shareholder who also faces fraud charges. Under Russia's criminal code, that could make them guilty of 'organised crime', which would trigger a confiscation of their assets.

Globalized Gaz: The realities of Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago - In November 2001 President Hugo Chavez-Frias of Venezuela passed fifty laws, one of which was the Hydro Carbon Law. These fifty laws were the catalyst for the launch of the covert/ overt strategy to remove President Higo Chavez-Frias from state power by any means necessary.

The new Great Game by Lutz Kleveman Monday October 20, 2003 - The 'war on terror' is being used as an excuse to further US energy interests in the Caspian

Burmese sue US oil company Duncan Campbell in Los Angeles
Monday July 28, 2003 - Multinationals on alert as judges are asked to rule that a Californian firm benefited from the junta's 'rape, murder and forced labour'

IT'S ALL ABOUT OIL! from www.whatreallyhappened.com

The Secret History of the Aqaba Pipeline - More related to the story above

Oil War - "It finds this a convenient way in which to establish a military presence in the Middle East - aimed partially at Iraq by all means but with a wider significance to control the production elsewhere there."

A roller coaster ride to hell By Eugene Marner - U.S. oil production peaked in 1970; North Sea production peaked in 2000; every major oil province in the world is in irreversible decline, except for the Middle East. The Middle East countries have been the "swing producers." That is, whenever more oil has been needed to meet world demand, the Saudis could be relied upon to pump a little more because they were assumed to have the great infinite reservoir of oil. Now, if we stop to think clearly about that rather amusing notion for a moment, we will realize that, on a finite planet, there are only limited amounts of everything. So there must be an end to the oil sometime.

When will we buy oil in euros? It occured to me while reading this article that the reason that Britian hasn't adopted the Euro was becuase of their Brent Sea Oil and the possible denomination of it in Euros.

Oil, Dollars, Euros And Dead Iraqi's By Nick Beams

The thing is, it is about oil by LINDA MCQUAIG

The Big Game - The article where the map above came from

IRAN

Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with Gazprom CEO Alexey Miller in Teheran, July 13, 2008

Gazprom Connects to Iran PDF July 15, 2008

Iran Rising PDF By ROBERT BRYCE July 18, 2008 - Gas for Europe, Gas for India & Pakistan...Sanctions? Israel? No Problem

Iran, China's Sinopec sign oil-field deal PDF Dec 9, 2007

Iran and China poised to sign pact on oil field PDF 25-year deal could be worth $100 billion By Marc Wolfensberger / Bloomberg News November 26, 2006

Romanian Oil Firm Says Its Oil Rig Attacked, Seized by Iran PDF By VOA News 22 August 2006

Economy Source: Middle East Forex Print PDF May 13 2006

Iran: Euro to replace dollar as oil currency

Petrodollar Warfare: Dollars, Euros and the Upcoming Iranian Oil Bourse PDF by William Clark

Moving towards a petroeuro system? Russia, Venezuela and some OPEC PDF

Oil, Geopolitics, and the Coming War with Iran PDF by Michael T. Klare

American war against Iran? 4/24/2005 - "A lot is at stake for the neocons in this latest struggle - perhaps everything, in fact. If the United States reconciles with Iran, the oil pipeline from Baku, Azerbaijan to Ceyhan, Turkey, so passionately sought by Israel, would be in danger.

The Real Reasons Why Iran is the Next Target: The Emerging Euro-denominated International Oil Market PDF by William Clark

ISRAEL AND OIL

The reason for the war in Iraq and upcoming war in Iran

War in the Caucasus: Towards a Broader Russia-US Military Confrontation? PDF by Michel Chossudovsky Global Research, August 10, 2008

Kirkuk to Haifa Pipeline: Reason for the War? PDF by anarchore on February 18th, 2007

Oil and Israel PDF By Andrea Crandall Feb/07/2007

Pipeline power for Israel? PDF Thomas Lifson December 17, 2006 - Pipelines matter in the balance of world power. A lot.

Pipelines to deliver oil, gas, water, data to Israel from Turkey PDF July 21, 2008

Turkey, Eni, Calik Plan Oil, Natural Gas Pipelines to Israel PDF By Mark Bentley and Ali Berat Meric Dec. 15, 2006

Gazrprom’s Eye Fixed on Israel PDF Created: 17.05.2006 - The Russians identified the partner whom they wanted to bring into the deal: none other than the Prime Minister’s good friend Benny Steinmetz. They added that they are already conducting advanced negotiations with him. “Steinmetz is completely in the picture,” confirmed a party at Gazprom this week. Danishevsky: “Advanced negotiations are being conducted with Steinmetz.” Parties in the business world have noted that one of the companies owned by Steinmetz, energy company Bateman-Litwin, has cooperated with Gazprom on other projects in the past.

Israel To Be Major Oil Transit Point PDF 11-19-5

Voice of the White House August 26, 2005 PDF TBR News.org – August 26, 2005 - The Israelis are working with us to secure Syria to permit an oil pipeline to run through conquered Syria from the Kurdish area of northern Iraq, pumping oil to Israel where a pumping station (for US oil tankers) will be set up near Haifa.

Marines Suspect Intelligence Leaks After Recent Ambushes PDF - The IDF pits Marines against Sunnis, Shiites against Sunnis, Kurds against both, and so on.

Israeli firm awarded oil tender in Iraq PDF Wednesday 25 February 2004 - Sonol will supply 25 million litres of fuel a month

Secret Relationship Between Israel and Oil PDF by Wendy Campbell October 01, 2004

Israeli Oil Company Gets Lucrative Contract In It's Own War (Iraq) PDF 14 January 2005

Russia Ready to Vaporize the Jewish State And then kick America out of the Eastern Hemisphere’s oilfields Copyright Joe Vialls, 28 October 2003 joe.vialls@ntlworld.com - This is not an idle or exaggerated threat. The Russian missile type deployed in Syria and Iran is the P270 Moskit [Mosquito], known in NATO circles as the SS-N-22 "Sunburn", once described by Rep. Dana Rohrabacher as "the most dangerous anti-ship missile in the Russian, and now the Chinese, fleet.” The ship borne version of this missile is launched from deck mounted quad tubes, but since Rohrabacher made his comments, Russia has adapted the Sunburn for submerged launch from submarines, air launch from Sukhoi 27s, and single surface launch from modified 40’ flatbed trucks. Nowadays, western defense experts unambiguously view all versions of Sunburn as the “most dangerous missiles in the world”. This is a must read!

Russia Ready to Vaporize the Jewish State Part 2: Vladimir Putin hammers the final nail into Israel’s coffin Copyright Joe Vialls, 16 November 2003 - Onyx means that Russia or China can sink American aircraft carriers at will without ever having to escalate to nuclear warfare, which gives both countries a massive strategic advantage. This is a must read!

Israel Approaches Turkey for Reactivation of Mosul-Haifa Pipeline - Israel has made an offer to Turkish contacting firms to reactivate the Mosul-Haifa pipeline, which has been closed for the last 55 years.

IRAQI OIL

IN SECRET AGREEMENT, SHELL NETS 25-YEAR MONOPOLY ON S. IRAQ'S GAS PDF November 8th, 2008

Israel is real beneficiary of Iraq oil PDF Press TV 01 Nov 2007

BushCo's Covert Attempt to Force Iraq Into Giving Up 87% of Its Oil PDF by Richard Clark Oct. 27, 2007

Gunmen Blow Up Iraq's North Export Pipeline -Official PDF By: Dow Jones on: 19.09.2007 - What they didn't tell you was... ...this particular pipeline was buried deep underground, and encased in cement, so how the resistance got to it to blow it up shows inginuity on their part. kamau

The Secret Scheme to Split Iraq Oil Grab PDF By ANTONIA JUHASZ and RAED JARRAR February 27, 2007

MAPS AND CHARTS OF IRAQI OILFIELDS: CHENEY ENERGY TASK FORCE

Oil Pipeline Videos (Israel can't be too happy about this)

The rip-off of Iraq's Oil Wealth PDF - Control of Iraq's future oil wealth is being handed to multinational oil companies through long-term contracts that will cost Iraq hundreds of billions of dollars.

Building an oil pipeline from Kirkuk to Haifa

Israel's pipe dream: getting oil from Iraq By SUSAN TAYLOR MARTIN Aug 16, 2004 - "The pipeline would be a dream," Yosef Paritzky, Israel's minister of infrastructures, said as reported by Salon.com. "We'd have an additional source of supply, and could even export some of the crude through Haifa. But we'd need a treaty with Iraq . . . to build the pipeline."

The Real Reasons for the Upcoming War With Iraq Part I 25.03.2004 - The second coalescing factor that is driving the Iraq war is the quiet acknowledgement by respected oil geologists and possibly this administration is the impending phenomenon known as Global "Peak Oil." This is projected to occur around 2010, with Iraq and Saudi Arabia being the final two nations to reach peak oil production.

Sabotage on northern Iraq oil pipeline Friday, 07-Nov-2003 [No, not the Mosul to Haifa pipeline -ed.]

Bush Orders Oil Companies Protected From Investigation! A Licence To Loot By Richard Calland Contretemps 10-29-3

U.S. can't hide concern for Iraq's oil By ROBERT FISK Thursday, October 2, 2003 - L. Paul Bremer, the U.S. administrator here, is "sexing up" the figures to a point where even the oilmen are shaking their heads. Take Kirkuk. Only when the television cameras capture a blown pipe, flames billowing from its wounds, do the occupation powers report sabotage.

Pipeline as "a serious blow to Turkish-Israeli relations." - JERUSALEM, August 25 – The U.S. Defense Department sent a telegram to the Israeli Foreign Ministry last week on the possibility of pumping oil from U.S.-occupied Iraq to Israel, reported a leading Israeli newspaper Monday, August 25.

As ordered, it's about oil Ruth Rosen - Unlike the U.N. resolution, the president's order appears to place U.S. corporations above the law for any activities related to Iraq oil, either in that country or in the United States.
It also declared a national emergency as the justification for sweeping aside all federal statues, including the Alien Tort Claims Act, and appears to provide immunity against contractual disputes, discrimination suits, violations of labor practices, international treaties, environmental disasters and human rights violations. [Looks like Bush is preparing for the national emergency he is about to create! -ed.]

It's the Oil, Stupid by Michael T. Klare - While American forces turned a blind eye to the looting of Iraq's archeological treasures, they moved quickly to gain control over oilfields, refineries and pipelines. Even before Iraqi resistance had been squelched, top US officials were boasting that Iraq's oil infrastructure was safely in American hands.

Q&A: Who will control Iraq's oil? - There is an economic as well as political aspect to the views of countries including France and Russia. Russian firm Lukoil says it expects its contract to develop Iraqi oilfields to be honoured while France's state-controlled oil company TotalFinaElf also reached similar potentially lucrative understandings. France was also the leading supplier of goods to Iraq under the UN's oil-for-food programme.

Troops secure the black gold By a Daily Telegraph correspondent in Baghdad 15apr03 - Most other public buildings are unguarded but the huge Oil Ministry headquarters on Palestine St has been ringed by more than 70 US troops. A dozen armoured personnel carriers guard the site.

U.S. also denies Iraqi oil to Lebanon Special to World Tribune.com MIDDLE EAST NEWSLINE Monday, April 14, 2003 - The Kuwaiti Al Siyassah daily reported on Friday that the United States will allow Iraqi oil to flow via two other pipelines. One is a pipeline being planned through Jordan and meant to end at the northern Israeli port of Haifa.

New Report says Oil the US Motive Posted By: HMakow <Send E-Mail> Date: Tuesday, 8 April 2003 - One week later, Sen. Richard Lugar, chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, quietly passed word to Russia and France that their countries will be frozen out of staggeringly lucrative postwar oil contracts unless they roll over and endorse the US attack.

Crude Vision Anthony Lappé, April 4, 2003 - A new investigative report from the Institute for Policy Studies entitled Crude Vision: How Oil Interests Obscured U.S. Government Focus On Chemical Weapons Use by Saddam Hussein released last week, researchers Jim Vallette, Steve Kretzmann, and Daphne Wysham discovered the real reason Donald Rumsfeld was sent to Baghdad: Rumsfeld, under direct instructions from the White House, was there to convince Saddam Hussein to approve a highly lucrative, and highly secret, oil pipeline project from Iraq to Jordan.

RUSSIA

Russia wins control of Turkmen gas PDF By Jerry Mazza Online Journal Associate Editor Jul 31, 2008 - The United States has suffered a huge defeat in the race for Caspian gas.

Russia's energy drive leaves US reeling PDF By M K Bhadrakumar Jul 19, 2008

Russian oil supplies to Czech Republic cut after missile defence deal with US PDF By Harry de Quetteville in Berlin 15/07/2008