With Israel on the attack and tensions and violence rising across the Middle East, I thought it might be a good time to start putting the history and geopolitics chapters of Oil: Anatomy of an Industry online.
War in the Middle East is the nightmare scenario of all world powers - even though, given the wealth of energy resouces in the region, war seems an inevitability at some time.
Over the last 70 years, the major Western powers have worked overtime to dictate influence in the region. Today, more than ever, the fear of the US, Europe, Russia and China is that events escalating at a pace that will be difficult to control.
I’ll be splitting the chapters into a series of blog posts so that no one post is too unwieldly. Keep checking back or subscribe to the RSS feed for new installments of the book as I post them.