... own energy resources, as well as its strategic location and control over most export routes for Central Asian oil and gas, make the country the most important actor regarding issues related to the outward flow of Caspian Sea Basin (CSB) energy resources. China is the world’s most populous...

... Administration  101 Energy security is one of these major EU interests. The EU as a bloc is heavily dependent on foreign oil and gas supplies. In 2013, it accounted for only 5.8 percent of the world’s energy production and 12 percent of its consumption. The EU imported 39.0 percent of its natural gas...

... advanced economy and the sophistication of its people consume a disproportionate amount of energy, ranking forty-­eighth in the world in electricity consumption, fifty-­second in oil consumption, and sixty-­ninth in natural gas consumption.18 While Israel has been able to establish self...

...-­ economics/energy-­ outlook.html.­ 52  Mediterranean Quarterly: September 2015 Indeed, these two regions account for nearly all of the net global increase in consumption. According to the IEA, for each barrel of oil no longer used in OECD countries, two barrels are used in the non-­OECD world.10...

... gas sometime in the mid-­2020s. Before 2011 Egypt, exported around 15 billion cubic meters (bcm) per year, about one-­third of which was exported to Europe in the form of liquefied natural gas (LNG). BP, BP Statistical Review of World Energy, 2011 (London: BP, 2011), 29. Data are for 2010. 2...

... occurred in 1999 and 2000: the small Noa and Mari B gas fields, which together make up the Yam Tethys reserve. The two fields began supplying Israel with relatively small amounts of gas in 2004, but they are now nearly depleted. 4. British Petroleum (BP), BP Statistical Review of World Energy...

... Africa and Europe: Energy Partnership,” OPEC Energy Review 33, no. 3 (2009): 155 – 69. 3. British Petroleum (BP), BP Statistical Review of World Energy (London: BP, 2011), 8. 4. US Energy Information Administration (USEIA), “Country Analysis Briefs: Egypt,” www.eia.gov /countries/country-­data.cfm...

... Western Countries and China” (paper presented at the confer- ence Stormy Waters, Bright Horizons? China and Europe’s Changing Roles in the Mediterranean Region, Turin World Affairs Institute, Italy, 27 – 28 June 2014). 9. Xu Xiaojie, World Energy China Outlook, 2013 – 2014, Excerpt and Presentation...

..., because, as its dependence on hydrocarbons from the region increases, Beijing feels the need to have greater leverage in the Middle East in order to ensure its energy security in the face of rising competition in what still remains a highly volatile and instable part of the world. The question...

.... The report called on ECO to pursue its efforts in establishing cooperation and contact with regional and subregional organizations, institutions, and banks active in the field of energy, such as the World Petroleum Congress, International Gas Union, Interstate Oil...

... to Accelerate Energy Cooperation between Turkey, Israel: Envoy,” Hurriyet Daily News, 2 March 2017, www.hurriyetdailynews.com/settlement- in- cyprus - to- accelerate- energy- cooperation- between- turkey- israel- envoy.aspx?PageID=238&NID=110323 &NewsCatID=510. 23. See World Travel and Tourism Council...

... of the case against Iran might ultimately lead to war, with the United States pitted against an adversary far more formidable than Saddam Hussein. Iran has air defenses that the Iraqis did not have, as well as con- siderable military and paramilitary resources, and could easily disrupt world energy...

... their policies over Syria.55 It is clear that while Turkey and Russia share common interests, such as the desire for political unity and territorial integrity in Syria, they do not agree on how to achieve these goals. In a sign of the continuing differences between the two states, at the World Energy...

... control of world energy supplies” instead of the wider lessons that became part of the canon of interna- tional relations after 1973: the phenomenon of “interdependence” that would achieve academic and policy status as a second model or paradigm for world...

....” Unfortunately, the author concentrates solely on the world having “to cope with Middle Easterners’ extensive control of world energy supplies” instead of the wider lessons that became part of the canon of interna- tional relations after 1973: the phenomenon...

... control of world energy supplies” instead of the wider lessons that became part of the canon of interna- tional relations after 1973: the phenomenon of “interdependence” that would achieve academic and policy status as a second model or paradigm for world...

.... eastern Mediterranean southern Europe rimland Turkey and energy Copyright 2015 by Mediterranean Affairs, Inc. 2015 Petros Vamvakas is associate professor of political science at Emmanuel College, Boston. Global Stability and the Geopolitical Vortex of the Eastern Mediterranean...

... of the international security agenda. The importance of energy supplies, however, dates to the eve of World War I, when First Lord of the Admiralty Winston Churchill decided, in his effort to make the British fleet faster than its German counterpart, to shift the power source of the navy from coal to oil...

...: China Ventures in Africa  95 is more than 1.3 billion tons of coal equivalent. Chinese energy consumption accounts for 10 percent of global demand, ranking China second in the world after the United States. However, China’s per capita consumption of com- mercial energy is only 42 percent...

... and currently produces more than 2.7 billion bpd.8 Major 4. “World Crude Oil and Natural Gas Reserves,” International Energy Journal, 1 January 2002, at www.eia.doe.gov/emeu/iea/table81.html. 5. Charles W. Corey, “U.S. Oil Executive Optimistic about Finds in West Africa,” Washington File (U.S...