...Toby Craig Jones Ensuring the flow of oil and providing security for oil producers like Saudi Arabia has long been central to American interests in the Persian Gulf. The security-for-oil argument is a formulation that obscures more than it reveals, however. The division of energy and security...

...Brian Holmes This text explores the consequences of the massive flow of Canadian heavy crude oil from the Alberta Tar Sands to the Chicago metropolitan area. The boom in North American oil extraction has literally strained petroleum infrastructure to its bursting point. How do urban populations...

... and expansion. From oil flows capital- ism as we still know it: the birth of the first giant multinationals—Standard Oil (whose component elements still persist in Exxon Mobil, Texaco, and British Petroleum), DuPont, and the Big Three automobile makers; the defining social system of private...

... profit from the flow of oil; it was not merely a technical device for getting oil to consumers. In the United States, oil pipelines emerged in the 1870s as a system by which a new oil company—Tide-Water—was able to circumvent Standard Oil’s control of the transport of resources via railways...

...Joel Auerbach The necessity of immediate transition from fossil fuels has made painfully conspicuous the fact that energy sources such as solar and wind do not have the same material properties as coal and oil, and has attracted critical attention to the ways in which the social values...

...” willing to destroy the earth and the Indigenous nations that care for it, then Robyn Maynard is right: abolition means Land Back. The question for decolonial abolitionists then becomes not just how to shut down prisons or dislodge right‐wing occupations, but rather how to staunch the flows of colonial...

... of History of the British Petroleum Company . Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press . Ghosh Amitav . 2007 . Incendiary Circumstances: A Chronicle of the Turmoil of Our Times . Boston : Mariner . Kandiyoti Rafael . 2012 . Pipelines: Flowing Oil and Crude Politics . London : IB...

... profits should sup- port the lives of all residents in a historically multicultural place, rendering Kurdistani oil less Kurdish as KRG institutions form the basis for the regional resource authority. Long-standing local populations would have jurisdiction over the flows that run beneath them...

... and pipes, oil is still territorial, because oil pumps and pipes must still pass through territory. The appropriation of that which flows under the soil is as important as the appropriation of the soil itself. What truly makes the oil war a successor of the colonial war is that the oil war is justified...

... to control the flow of oil through pipelines induced the producers to seek relief through legislation; but the failure of Pennsylvania to enact the pipeline bills introduced in 1875 shifted the struggle over pipeline power back into the arena of bareknuckled competitive strife. The Pennsylvania legislature...

... infrastructuralism energy justice References Anand Nikhil Gupta Akhil Appel Hannah , eds. 2018 . The Promise of Infrastructure . Durham, NC : Duke University Press . Barney Darin . 2017 . “ Who We Are and What We Do: Canada as a Pipeline Nation .” In Petro-cultures: Oil...

... of extremely serious decisions to call upon last-ditch resources. The closure of the canal through military action reduced the flow of oil to Great Britain and increased its price. This has had some effect upon industrial production, since oil as a fuel was in­ creasingly making up for a shortage of coal...

... tween two instruments of economic development private enterprise and public policy. Gathering pipelines rapidly supplanted the inefficient wagons used to haul barrels of oil from the wells to railheads or river shipping points. Competition among refiners and rail carriers to control the flow of oil...

... in northern Iran. The Soviets were countered chiefly by the British, who pushed troops into Russian territory as far as Baku and attempted to uphold the conservative elements east of the Caspian in order to protect India and to retain and expand their great oil concessions in the Near East. Both Soviet...

... of our manufacturers, and a field is open in the future for those possessed of such knowledge. In our cotton­ seed oil mills we have been content to crush the seed and secure the yield of oil, shipping the oil to points north of the Mason and Dixon Line or to foreign countries for conversion...

... outlook gives pride of place to the workings of petrocapital in the form of rents and revenue flows. The “upstream” point of view offered here, centered on the contexts and conditions—including the maritime—of oil extraction, demonstrates a different facet of petropolitical economy. While...

...). The grid is life itself, by this logic.1 Significantly, even the most committed entities working toward decarbonization take it for granted that “we” cannot tolerate any disruption in the smooth flow of electricity on demand.2 Now, in this “transitional” period, withdrawal, as an “alternative...

... guerrillas. The oil workers did not do much better in fostering good relations with the Kofan: in capping the well, they spilled crude, and as they washed the area next to the well, the crude flowed into the adjoining marsh, which would flow into the waters of La Raya, which would impact families...

...Gökçe Günel Discussions of energy in sub-Saharan Africa tend to focus on leapfrogging, theorizing how some non-Western countries might be able to avoid carbon-intensive fuels, such as coal and oil, and directly start using renewable energy infrastructure, mainly solar. While theories...

... to protect India and to retain and expand their great oil concessions in the Near East. Both Soviet and British tides receded, but the struggle continued in different forms. The Soviets made gains through the Communist party, the Iranian trade unions, their appeals to the peasants, and by means of trade...