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Global energy socialism.(INSIDER REPORT)(Brief article)
The world's 13 largest oil and gas firms are either partially or wholly state-owned--meaning that "big oil" is very much a government-dominated industry, from a global perspective.
To judge from the angry mock-populist rhetoric that pours forth every summer, one would assume that the oil industry is an autonomous creature much more powerful than any government that would try to regulate it "in the public interest." Tales and rumors of price-fixing and engineered shortages abound every August as angry motorists absorb seasonal price shocks, prompting demands for concerted government action to break the back of "Big Oil."
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- Changes in midstream: big oil is moving away from terminals, toward exploration...
- Magazine article from: National Petroleum News Bennett, Stephen May 1, 2004 700+ words
...that must be performed. "The reason big oil is divesting themselves of terminals...greater than the return on terminals." Big oil has always said it needed terminals for...Madison Dearborn and Carlyle/Riverstone Global Energy have invested in pipeline and terminal...
- GLOBAL ENERGY GIANTS PUT QUEENSLAND COAL SEAM ON MAP.
- News wire article from: AsiaPulse News September 19, 2008 700+ words
MELBOURNE, Sept 19 Asia Pulse - A scramble by global energy companies for a foothold in Queensland's coal seam methane...executive Nick Davies said from Singapore. "When the big oil majors started to look at this they liked LNG from Australia...
- Big Oil Meets Its Match.(BP Amoco says it's unlikely that it will build...
- Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal October 2, 2000 700+ words
California's reputation for being unfriendly to big oil has spread far and wide. That was evident when BP Amoco...Athletic Club, Browne also fielded questions about the global energy crisis. With the world now facing an oil crunch, a reporter...
- Iraq woos big oil players ... on its own terms.(BUSINESS AND FINANCE)
- Magazine article from: The Middle East Smith, Pamela Ann March 1, 2009 700+ words
...to modify them," observes Muhammad-Ali Zainy, senior energy economist and analyst for the London-based Centre for Global Energy Studies. "I don't think that will be possible for Shahristani to do." Zainy says that: "It is now the general sentiment...
- OPINION: Big Oil Still Lubes U.S. Energy Policy.
- Newspaper article from: Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News April 5, 2002 700+ words
...society." It may have taken the largest bankruptcy in this nation's history and the withdrawal of campaign handouts from a global energy giant to grab our attention, but the lesson gleaned seems clear: Energy companies exert considerable influence in the political...
- Why Big Oil is getting a lot bigger.(some of Standard Oil's disbanded monopoly...
- Magazine article from: U.S. News & World Report December 14, 1998 700+ words
...history. "The challenge has always been to control the surplus," says Leo Drollas, deputy director of the Centre for Global Energy Studies in London. In 1928 the heads of British Petroleum, Royal Dutch Shell, and Standard Oil met in the Scottish highlands...
- A New Era For 'Big Oil'.(Interview)
- Magazine article from: Newsweek International Foroohar, Rana August 16, 2004 700+ words
...s talk about demand. You've said that the oil and gas industry needs to invest another $2 trillion by 2015 to meet global energy requirements. The industry, including the state-owned companies representing 80 percent of global production, has spent...
- Making a case for global energy: Author Robert Bryce: author Robert Bryce is a...
- Magazine article from: Latino Leaders Sussman, Soll May 1, 2008 700+ words
...Lies" might not be what would be expected from an author who has investigated the Enron fiasco in his book Pipe Dreams and the big oil Cronies that helped fuel the rise of the Bush presidencies. Speaking to Latino Leaders at his Austin home, Bryce says he wrote...
Source: HighBeam Research, Global energy socialism.(INSIDER REPORT)(Brief article)