Gas is arguably more vulnerable than oil to unforeseen supply interruptions.

And, in many places, oil supplies are declining as old oil fields are depleted.

Remaining oil supplies will be concentrated in the volatile Middle East.

Russian energy managers count on the region s oil and gas supplies to supplement stagnating domestic production.

The 1979 1981 oil crisis is said to reflect the cutoff in oil due to the Iranian Revolution and the Iran Iraq war.

China has managed to secure new hydrocarbon supplies through pipelines from Kazakhstan and Russia.

Instability in the Middle East will continue to limit oil supplies, discouraging the expansion of production.

The country imports most energy supplies, especially oil and natural gas and to a large extent depends on Russia as its energy supplier.

It takes a threat to oil supplies to get world leaders to pay attention to Africa.

Oil supply is likely to be vulnerable to political disruptions long before issues arise from overall scarcity of supply.

Environmentalists opposing the pipeline refer, with equal deftness, to dirty oil.

The BTC is designed to transport up to 50 million tons of crude oil annually and carries oil from the Caspian Sea oilfields to global markets.

Few countries are as dependent on the Persian Gulf region s hydrocarbons as is India, which imports almost 80 of its consumption.

Russia s natural gas supplies to Europe play a vital role in this regard, because here, unlike in the case of oil, Russia s bargaining position is very strong.

Efficiencies in energy use are possible, but they cannot solve either the problem of long run oil supplies or climate change.

Thus, the energy of tomorrow could well reinforce the world s democracies and weaken its most repressive regimes, where most oil is to be found nowadays.

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Azerbaijan also promotes global energy security through development of the Baku Tbilisi Ceyhan oil pipeline and the Baku Tbilisi Erzurum gas pipeline, as well as through the Baku Tbilisi Akhalkalaki Kars railroad project.

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But the lesson of 1973 is that a disruption of Gulf oil supplies would raise prices and damage both rich and poor economies, regardless of how secure their own sources of supply might be.

Haifa was the country's largest deep water port, The head of the spur line to the Hejaz railway, was the oil terminal for the Mosul Haifa pipe line (which the Iraqi Government had closed in April) and home to the Consolidated Refineries oil refinery.

The pipeline brought oil from the east side of the Andes to the coast, making Ecuador South America's second largest oil exporter.

Total energy consumed at all power plants for the generation of electricity was 4,398,768 ktoe (kilo ton of oil equivalent) which was 36 of the total for primary energy sources (TPES) of 2008.

But perhaps what countries really fear is not so much high prices but a total market breakdown and descent into an autarkic Mad Max world in which oil is scarce, no country is willing to allow trade in the oil it produces, and there is no world market clearing price.

In stunning large format photographs, Edward Burtynsky follows the path of oil through modern society, from wellhead to pipeline to car engine and then beyond to the projected peak oil endgame.

There is presently no central electricity or piped water supply anywhere in Liberia.

Even if it were closer to the top, overthrowing Saddam Hussein to ensure oil supplies in 50 years ranks as the least plausible of strategies.

Oil was not the cause of the Iraq War in the simplistic sense that American control of Iraqi oil would make it more secure.

The pipeline is expected to carry crude oil from fields in the Caspian Sea off Baku to Tbilisi in Georgia, and to the Mediterranean terminal in Ceyhan, Turkey. The pipeline has a capacity of 10 million barrels.

The collateral damaged produced by attacks against oil pipeline infrastructure by rebel guerrillas in the Colombian armed conflict has produced long term damage to the environment.

Borders will become harder to cross for both people and goods. And if such actors disrupt the flow of oil from the Persian Gulf, home to two thirds of the world s reserves, a global depression like that of the 1930 s could strengthen protectionism further.

Having suffered from disruptions in oil and gas supplies following disputes between Russia and Ukraine and then Belarus, the EU s members have finally understood that their survival depends on their capacity to diversify their energy sources.

During the Cold War, America's approach to the Middle East was to foster stability in order to prevent the spread of Soviet influence, ensure the supply of oil, and provide security for Israel.

Should this obstacle be overcome, agriculture in poor countries of the South could play a significant role in revitalizing local economies, and contribute significantly towards the replacement of dwindling crude oil supplies.

Last year s experience with interrupted gas supplies did have one benefit new life was blown into plans for alternative routes, like the Nabucco pipeline that is to bring Azeri gas to Europe through Turkey.

In other cases, the Kremlin acts punitively, as when it cut off oil supplies to Lithuania following the sale of the Mazeikiu Nafta refinery to a Polish company, or to Ukraine after its people voted for the wrong party.

Russia occasionally cuts off its gas, and many of its four million people have left the country.

The killing so angered Shabwani's tribesmen that in the subsequent weeks, they fought heavily with government security forces, attacking a major oil pipeline in Maarib twice.

In other cases, the Kremlin acts punitively, as when it cut off oil supplies to Lithuania following the sale of the Mazeikiu Nafta refinery to a Polish company, or to Ukraine after its people voted for the wrong party.

From the beginning of the bombing campaign in Yemen, US personnel have been assisting the Saudis with targeting information. They fly airborne tankers to refuel Saudi fighter jets between bombing raids. And they assist the Saudi navy with its coastal blockade of Yemen s commercial seaports.

Rapid global demand for electricity, increasing uncertainty in supply and prices of oil and natural gas, and concerns about the greenhouse gas emissions have opened more prospects for the new development of nuclear energy at the global scale.

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Playing a more effective role by the IAEA in guaranteeing the fuel supply and recognition of the fact that restricting fuel supply would be contrary to the basic obligations of the States parties to the NPT

It was reputed to be the most difficult military defence line in North Africa.