http://petropulse.com Understanding Energy Risk Thu, 25 Oct 2007 13:50:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en What has Petropulse been up in recent months? Well, we've expanded our remit and have launched a new reporting service for business called The Climate Risk Report. What is that exactly you ask? Here's a quick explainer: The Climate Risk Report is a bespoke reporting service for companies who need an intelligent digest of ... http://petropulse.com/2007/10/25/climate-risk-report/ Creating an Islamic Monster The fall of the Shah and the expulsion of US oil companies from Iran severely rattled the government of Jimmy Carter. Compounding America’s energy and security concerns, the Soviet Union had recently invaded Afghanistan in what many observers believed was a blatant first step in a push ... http://petropulse.com/2006/07/25/oil-chapter-1-pursuit-of-power-part-viii/ Glut and Cut By the early 1960s, there was far more oil available on the world market than even the multiplying demand for automobiles and passenger jets could sustain. Compounding this glut, the Soviet Union had restored its oil fields to near full production and was aggressively selling on the world ... http://petropulse.com/2006/07/21/oil-chapter-1-pursuit-of-power-part-vii/   Oil Bites Back A generation had passed since the oil companies brokered their first Middle East oil deals. World oil consumption had exploded during the immediate post-war years and the Middle East was the source of much of that growth. None of this was lost on a new set of leaders ... http://petropulse.com/2006/07/20/oil-chapter-1-pursuit-of-power-part-vi/   The Age of Energy The war in Europe had only been over for a few months when first President Roosevelt traveled to meet a world leader he might not have given the time of day to just a few years before - Saudi King Ibn Saud. There is no official record ... http://petropulse.com/2006/07/20/oil-pursuit-of-power-chapter-1-part-v/ The Rise of Big Oil The lessons of the First World War were all too obvious – the Great Powers needed oil to survive. And while new finds were being made in the US and Mexico, one region of the world was attracting more interest than any other – the Middle ... http://petropulse.com/2006/07/19/oil-chapter-1-the-pursuit-of-power-part-iv/   The Start of the Addiction Perhaps it was because of Samuel’s understanding of maritime trade or maybe it was because Shell now had large excess reserves of Borneo fuel oil following its recent merger with Royal Dutch, an East Indies-based rival, but Samuel led the campaign to make the British Royal ... http://petropulse.com/2006/07/18/oil-chapter-1-pursuit-of-power-part-iii/   Enter Europe News of American oil quickly spread to Europe and soon Standard Oil was contracting more and more ships to meet this international surge in demand. In the 1870s and 80s, kerosene exports – most to Europe – accounted for half of all US oil production and provided the fourth ... http://petropulse.com/2006/07/18/oil-chapter-1-the-pursuit-of-power-part-ii/   The prospectors who descended on Pennsylvania’s Western hills in the months following Drake’s 1859 discovery of “rock oil” had no idea of oil’s true potential. They didn’t know that oil would dictate the fortunes of millions of people for the next 150 years. They didn’t know that the pursuit of ... http://petropulse.com/2006/07/18/oil-chapter-one-pursuit-of-power-part-i/   No nation uses more oil than the United States. The U.S. uses a full quarter of all the oil produced in the world. And even though it produces nearly eight million barrels of oil a day, it must import a further 12 million barrels just to meet its daily needs. ... http://petropulse.com/2006/07/18/oil-a-concise-guide-part-2/