Inter-Regional Trade Movements of Petroleum Part 1: Introduction
Global flows of petroleum are vital to supporting a global economy, as petroleum is the key transport fuel that allows the movement of people, raw material and finished goods between distant regions of...
View ArticleInter-Regional Trade Movements of Petroleum: Part 2 Global Trends in Exports...
With the house-keeping chores of Part 1 out of the way, let’s look at the global trends. In subsequent parts of this series, I will described the petroleum export and import trends for each of the...
View ArticlePart 3: Inter-Regional Trade Movements of Petroleum in North America
In Part 1, I introduced my abbreviations, data bases and analysis methods, and in Part 2, I presented the global trends. Figures 1-6 show the data somewhat analogous to the global trends presented in...
View ArticlePart 4: Inter-Regional Trade Movements of Petroleum to and from South America
In Part 1, I introduced my abbreviations, data bases and analysis methods, and in Part 2, I presented the global trends. Part 3 presented the inter-regional trade movements to and from North America....
View ArticlePart 5: Inter-Regional Trade Movements of Petroleum to and from Africa
In Part 1, I introduced my abbreviations, data bases and analysis methods, Part 2 presented the global trends, Part 3 presented the inter-regional trade movements to and from North America and Part 4...
View ArticlePart 6: Inter-Regional Trade Movements of Petroleum to and from Europe
In Part 1, I introduced my abbreviations, data bases and analysis methods, Part 2 presented the global trends, Part 3 presented the inter-regional trade movements to and from North America and Part 4...
View ArticlePart 7: Inter-Regional Trade Movements of Petroleum to and from the Middle East
Part 7: Inter-Regional Trade Movements of Petroleum to and from the Middle East I could rant about how Google’s “upgrade” to blogspot as an example of a devolving civilization, but instead, let’s just...
View ArticlePart 8: Inter-Regional Trade Movements of Petroleum to and from the former...
In Part 6 we saw how petroleum imports from the Middle East (ME) to the European Region (EU) have gone down over the last decade with the difference being made up from exports from the former Soviet...
View ArticlePart 9: Inter-Regional Trade Movements of Petroleum to and from China
Over the last decade, all four net petroleum exporting regions (ME, FS, AF, SA) have stepped up their exports to CH, often the expense of less exports to one or more of EU, NA or Japan (JP). For...
View ArticlePart 10: Inter-Regional Trade Movements of Petroleum to and from Japan
It may seem odd that I separately cover Japan (JP) in this survey of the trade movements of all major regions of the world. After all Japan’s population is only 127 million (US international census...
View ArticlePart 11: Inter-Regional Trade Movements of Petroleum to and from the...
As discussed in Part 1, the Asia-Pacific remainder countries (APr), or, the remaining Asia-Pacific (rAP—a better acronym, I think) corresponds to the countries of the Asia-Pacific region as defined in...
View ArticlePart 12: Inter-Regional Trade Movements of Petroleum: Summary
It probably looks as though I have dropped off the map, posting-wise for the last month, but I having been steadily working on this project for the past weeks, and I am happy now to bring this series...
View ArticleThe Carter Doctrine: Is It Working?
ASPO 2012 presentations have come out on You Tube, and among them is this interesting presentation from Michael Klare entitled, The Geopolitics of Oil and Gas: As part of his presentation (6:30-8:30...
View ArticleIf the Strait of Hormuz Closed, Which Oil Importing Region Would Suffer the...
A few days ago, I came across this RTV interview and article, Strait Answer: Iran prepares to close Hormuz, on tv.globalresearch.ca: The interviewee, Gareth Porter, posited that Iran could drop a...
View ArticleRelationship between Petroleum Exports and Production: Part 1
In this, and my next post, I draw on the analysis done in my previous multi-part series, Inter-Regional Trade Movements of Petroleum, to examine the relationship between petroleum exports and...
View ArticleRelationship between Petroleum Exports and Production-Part 2
In this post, I finish my exploration of the relationship between petroleum exports and production for the remaining six of my nine-region analysis. Japan (JP): relationship between petroleum...
View ArticlePredicting Global and Regional Petroleum Consumption Trends Part 1...
After a hiatus from posting, I am now ready and able to start to unfold this new series. Unlike my previous series, which I could post on as I worked through my analysis, and for reasons that will...
View ArticlePredicting Global and Regional Petroleum Consumption Trends Part 2: The...
Continuing on from the concepts presented in Part 1, this post presents my PIE (Production, Imports and Exports) analysis to predict future petroleum consumption for The Middle East (ME). Analysis of...
View ArticlePredicting Global and Regional Petroleum Consumption Trends Part 3: The...
This continues the series of PIE (Production, Imports and Exports) analysis to predict future petroleum consumption, this time, for The Former Soviet Union (FS). For background, see Part 1 and for a...
View ArticlePredicting Global and Regional Petroleum Consumption Trends Part 4: Africa
I am back for the next installment of my series attempting to predict future petroleum consumption for nine different regions of the world—this time its Africa. I have a little bit more time today so...
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