By Neal Adams
Oil is the lifeblood that flows throughout the veins of industrialized international locations. From fuel to toothpaste and different useful prerequisites, oil's significance touches each one in every of us. with out oil, the area could stop to exist as we all know it.
Terrorism & Oil is the 1st e-book to take an in-depth examine the oil industry’s vulnerabilities to terrorism. Written by means of Neal Adams, some of the most influential voices within the oil undefined, Terrorism & Oil gives you a robust and thought-provoking message to a society hooked on this threatened source.
Divided into sections—Education and Action—Terrorism & Oil is a wealthy resource of data supplying
• a historical past of terrorism and oil offer disruptions
• important production/consumption statistic tables and graphs
• an summary of transportation choke issues and infrastructures
• important web site review checklists
• an summary of ordinary terrorist guns
Overall, Adams promises thought-provoking content material and attracts soundly clever conclusions which make Terrorism & Oil a useful must-read for a society dealing with a brand new period of terrorism
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S. gas sources generally parallel oil producing regions. Most domestically produced natural gas originates in the offshore Gulf of Mexico (GOM). It is piped to end markets with almost 50% of the gas destined for the Northeast and Midwest. S. The GOM is the dominant source for domestic natural gas. It accounts for 30% of natural gas production and 20% of proved reserves. Its production may be supplemented from Alaska’s North Slope if appropriate pipelines are constructed. Total natural gas production in the Lower 48 States has shown an upward trend in the 1990s and continuing into the new millennium.
Maximum capacity is 700 million barrels. (Fig. 2-4) Table 2-1: Past SPR Exchanges Date May 1996 August 1998 June 2000 Sep-Oct 2000 Description Exchanged 900,000 barrels of crude with ARCO. Exchanged 11 million barrels of lower quality Maya crude with Mexico. Exchanged 500,000 barrels each with CITGO and Conoco. 8 million barrels for interim 2 million Northeast heating oil reserve. The complex was designed to provide a minimum of 90 days of import protection using public and private stocks. The maximum was 118 days in 1985.
Adams b Ch1 10/25/02 9:46 AM Page 8 Terrorism and Oil1108_hh29y3*1891308A 100 8 Photo 1-2: Kuwaiti oil wells set ablaze by Iraq’s retreating military forces. Source: Neal Adams Firefighters Photo 1-3: Destroyed Iraqi Tanks. Source: Neal Adams Firefighters For discussion, assume Iraq had taken Saudi Arabia. Oil production capacity under Hussein’s direct control would have been overwhelming (Table 1-2). Also, Qatar would have probably fallen with Saudi Arabia, as it exists on an eastern peninsula jetting into the Persian Gulf with desert at its western back.
