The latest chapter in the plundering of Western Sahara's natural resources was Morocco's search for oil in its territorial waters.

Indonesia was targeted by the Japanese for its rich oil resources which would become a vital asset during the war.

Petroleum products

Nobel invested in these and amassed great wealth through the development of these new oil regions.

If the volume of oil resources were known with certainty, and if we could accurately predict the growth of oil consumption, calculating the imminence of exhaustion would be simple.

62 188. Oil slick on Lebanese shores

61 194. Oil slick on Lebanese shores

Oil tankers are only one source of oil spills.

The rest of its petroleum exports go to Europe and Latin America.

Oil revenue and the macroeconomic impact of oil windfalls

The Liberian International Ship and Corporate Registry is a major source of revenue for the National Transitional Government of Liberia. LISCR has not had an independent audit since 2000, the year it was created. The Bureau of Maritime Affairs staff, co located with LISCR in their home offices in Virginia, United States, do not provide oversight because of lack of ability, lack of knowledge and lack of support from the Bureau.

Oil benefits a handful of princes.

Al Thani s political audacity stems partly from Qatar s enormous gas resources, which have allowed him to develop vigorous policies in all areas, especially in foreign affairs.

However a post Second World War recession and popular unrest led to a return to populist politics and domestic military interventions in the 1960s, while foreign companies developed oil resources in the Ecuadorian Amazon.

Riding on record high energy prices and raw material exports, in January 2007 Russia became the world s tenth largest economy.

Finally, the government controls licensing of exploration and production of fields.

If the volume of oil resources were known with certainty, and if we could accurately predict the growth of oil consumption, calculating the imminence of exhaustion would be simple. But these are big ifs especially given the high level of uncertainty regarding the ultimate volume of oil resources.

A large share of exports consists of petroleum products made from imported crude.

China is Sudan's largest economic partner, with a 40 share in Sudanese oil projects.

This stance conveniently avoided rows with oil dictators.

Bacteria capable of digesting the hydrocarbons in petroleum are often used to clean up oil spills.

In 2004 Dubai's GDP grew at a healthy 17 rate, mostly in the non oil sectors.

So this is where the tar sands live, under one of the last magnificent Boreal forests.

Building a knowledge based economy using oil wealth is clearly possible.

Where has the oil wealth gone? Chávez s social programs were the biggest beneficiaries.

The current oil rush in West Africa is a perfect illustration of the problem.

Kuwait's oil reserves are the fourth largest in the world and the Burgan Field is the second largest oil field.

There must be a bottom line that cannot be crossed in order to achieve rule of law.

Brazil s new oil reserves will certainly affect regional geo politics.

Despite Iran's vast oil wealth, close to a third of the population lives in poverty.

Oil exporting countries, however, were currently facing oil capacity constraints and reduced oil refining capability.

New rebel movements are emerging and launching attacks in the area of oil facilities in West Kordofan.

To those who think that this is the case, Chavez is not an innovator but someone who is merely squandering Venezuela s oil wealth in the same way that governments did following the oil shocks of the 1970's.

The plan highlights the need to take advantage of the opportunities afforded by shale gas and newly discovered oil reserves.

A country s property rights in foreign oil assets are likely to diminish as the oil price rises.

But Brazil s President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, perhaps fearing the infamous resource curse that has blighted the development of so many countries blessed with mineral wealth, is determined that the new oil wealth not be turned into nonsense.

Their fecklessness and recklessness are what convince much of the world that Africans can do nothing but dance, slaughter each other, and beg. Easy access to oil wealth only allows their cynical frivolity to continue.

To protect the oil fields and other facilities, the Americans dedicated a massive, overwhelming force of soldiers and private contractors.

With the exception of Qatar, this led to an increase in the share of oil exports in total 2004 exports.

Iraq questions the alleged causal link between decreases in catches and the 1991 oil spills.

3. Considers that the oil slick has heavily polluted the shores of Lebanon and partially polluted Syrian shores and consequently has had serious implications for livelihoods and the economy of Lebanon, owing to the adverse implications for natural resources, biodiversity, fisheries and tourism, and for human health, in the country

Recalling its resolution 61 194 of 20 December 2006 on the oil slick on Lebanese shores,

The size of the new oil reserves adds even more weight to Brazil s growing global influence.

In the context of the new Latin American left, Ortega resembles a shoddy imitation of Fidel Castro without the oil wealth of Hugo Chávez.

The battle for his economic legacy is more straightforward it comes down to how he managed Venezuela s oil wealth.