heavily on energy acquisition as the country urgently needs reliable sources of oil and natural gas to continue its …China is the largest consumer of energy, the leading exporter of manufactured goods and possesses the second largest … hydrocarbon-rich Middle East. Since becoming a net importer of oil in 1993, China’s engagement of the Middle East has focused …

This paper provides an overview of the political economy of oil in the CIS. It briefly situates the region's oil sector … potential in the global context, before analysing the structural features of the oil sectors by country. It examines the ways in … which CIS oil industries have been organised and governed since 1991, as well as questions of transport infrastructure and …

There is a huge discrepancy between the "political" values of the reserves by country as reported by the Oil and Gas … Journal, World Oil, BP Statistical Review, OPEC, etc. and the "technical" values which are confidential to most countries. Yet …, most production forecasts by official agencies are based on the political data. Some countries report minimum values (e …

global implications as the demand for energy and non-energy minerals continues to rise. © 2014 by the Massachusetts Institute …