Posted in Adam Garfinkle, Iran, Israel, Oil and Gas on Oct 9th, 2008 Comments Off on ‘Redefining U.S. Interests in the Middle East’
From MESH Admin The latest contribution to Middle East Papers is by Adam Garfinkle, editor of the journal The American Interest. Garfinkle (a particularly prolific contributor to MESH) argues that the conventional understanding of U.S. interests no longer accords with post-Cold War realities. The protection of oil, support for Israel, and preservation of U.S. hegemony […]
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From Gal Luft What’s behind the sudden burst of willingness on the part of the Saudis, who announced that they will increase oil output by 500,000 barrels per day in the coming months? After all, for many months they were quite unfazed by the economic havoc caused throughout the world by the rise in oil […]
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Posted in Gal Luft, Oil and Gas, Saudi Arabia on May 16th, 2008 Comments Off on Bush begs Saudis (again)
From Gal Luft Four months and thirty extra dollars a barrel later, President Bush is again in Saudi Arabia trying to persuade the Saudis to open the spigot and increase OPEC production. Last time the answer was a resounding no. Not even a gift of 900 precision-guided bombs helped convince the Saudis to show more […]
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Posted in Bernard Haykel, Iran, Oil and Gas, Palestinians, Saudi Arabia on Jan 18th, 2008 Comments Off on Bush’s Saudi success
From Bernard Haykel I’m in Riyadh and the sense I get from the Saudis is that the Bush visit was a success for the President in two ways. First, Bush was told that while the Gulf States’ leaderships are against an attack on Iran, preferring instead diplomatic and UN-based initiatives, they would not stand in […]
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Posted in Gal Luft, Oil and Gas, Saudi Arabia on Jan 16th, 2008 Comments Off on Bush begs the Saudis
From Gal Luft President Bush’s appeal to the Saudis to increase oil production is more pitiful than understandable. At $100 a barrel, the United States bleeds over a billion dollars per day in order to finance its petroleum import needs. The result: ballooning trade deficits, growing unemployment, a weakened dollar and crumbling financial institutions like […]
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Posted in Geopolitics, Maps, Oil and Gas on Dec 26th, 2007 Comments Off on Who has the oil?
From MESH Admin What is the most effective way to represent the strategic significance of the Persian Gulf? One alternative is to emphasize its dominance of world oil reserves and exports, via a graph or map. Here are three approaches—the first one, conventional; the other two, innovative and even dramatic.
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Posted in China, Iran, Jacqueline Newmyer, Oil and Gas, Sanctions on Dec 10th, 2007 Comments Off on Sinopec’s Iran deal
From Jacqueline Newmyer The Chinese national oil company Sinopec has signed a contract to develop Iran’s Yadavaran oil field, according to articles in today’s Financial Times and International Herald Tribune. From Iran’s point of view, the deal is a triumph. It exposes the inability of the United States to build a global coalition to impose […]
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