Hugo Chávez and the Limits to Petropolitics (ARI)
Exxon Mobil’s conflict with PDVSA has revived Hugo Chávez’s perennial threat to cut off oil exports to the US.
Exxon Mobil’s conflict with PDVSA has revived Hugo Chávez’s perennial threat to cut off oil exports to the US.
This article revisits the multifaceted issue of energy security and analyses its various permutations, degrees of risk and political and economic implications in the short, medium and long run.
This ARI assesses the implications of the recent resurgence of oil nationalism on the international oil companies, the national oil corporations and energy security concerns.
In early June China unveiled its National Plan for Climate Change, a document which has generated some controversy.
The present paper will introduce the debate with respect to action taken to mitigate climate change, its characteristics and challenges in the context of global, EU and Spanish actions.
This second part of the analysis concentrates on Chávez’s use of PdVSA to promote his social, political and geopolitical aims and the implications of this (ab)use for the future of the Venezuelan oil sector.
The recent oil price boom has generated unprecedented revenue for the Venezuelan government. However, it is far from clear that Hugo Chávez’s oil policy will ultimately benefit the broad masses of Venezuelans, to say nothing of the billons of energy consumers around the world.
In this analysis it examines the ‘Cebu Declaration on East Asian Energy Security’ and the three main problems that this declaration seeks to address.
Spain is highly dependent on imported hydrocarbons. As a result, the Spanish economy is quite vulnerable to fluctuations in international oil and gas prices.
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